Barley Soup with Mushrooms and Kale
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Wonderful, hearty soup rich with the earthy flavours of mushrooms and kale.
It involves the usual preliminary steps of chopping and sautéing onions, mushrooms and garlic but is then left to simmer slowly while the barley, and then the kale, cooks. I appreciated that Ms Shulman had us include a parmesan rind in the bouquet garni…I often forget I have them and enclosing it in the cheesecloth bundle made removal from the soup much easier.
A perfect cool weather soup.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I had no dry porcini mushrooms, and perhaps using those would have given the broth the rich mushroom depth I was looking for. Instead... Read more
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I could not resist making this recipe with fresh kale from my CSA. I used a mix of very aromatic dried mushrooms and fresh baby bella mushrooms. I love barley and this soup sounded, smelled and looked great. It was not spectacular and seems to be missing something. We did try the thicker leftovers as a pilaf with fish.