Mushroom Barley Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tbs oil
- 1 lb pearl barley
- 1 1/2 lb sliced mushrooms
- 3-4 oz dried mushrooms
- 1 bunch celery 8 stalks
- 1 lb carrots baby carrots ok!
- 3 large onions
- 8-12 cloves garlic
- 4 large cans chicken broth
- 1 tbs flour
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
- 1/2 tsp fresh dill snipped or dry dill weed
Instructions
- Soak dry mushrooms in water 30-60 minutes. Clean in several changes of water.
- Dice onion, carrot, celery, garlic and add to heated oil in large pot.
- Sprinkle with flour and saute a few minutes.
- Add chicken soup and all mushrooms.
- Use filtered soaking juice if grit free.
- Add barley.
- Simmer 2 hours.
- Thicken if desired with roux of flour and oil (boil oil, add flour, stir untill it changes color).