Mushroom and Chicken with Sour Cream Soup

Description

I found this one online and tweaked it. It’s rich and filling. Good comfort food.

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • ½ teaspoon dried tarragon
  • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 bunch green onions, lighter half chopped thin and darker green half discarded
  • 2 pinches salt
  • 2 cups chopped button mushrooms
  • 1 cup chopped rotisserie chicken
  • ¼ cup flour
  • 3 cubes beef bouillon
  • 3 ½ cups hot water
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 1 ½ teaspoons cornstarch
  • 1 cup cold milk
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper hot sauce
  • salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

  1. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Stir the tarragon
  2. nutmeg
  3. green onions
  4. and 2 pinches of salt into the melted butter; cook and stir until the green onions are softened
  5. about 4 minutes. Add the mushrooms
  6. stir to coat
  7. and continue cooking until the mushrooms are tender
  8. about 5 minutes more. Fold the chicken into the mixture and cook together until the chicken gets hot
  9. about 1 minute. Sprinkle the flour over the mixture; stir until completely absorbed into the mixture
  10. 3 to 4 minutes.
  11. Dissolve the beef bouillon cubes in the hot water; pour into the chicken mixture about 1/2 cup at a time
  12. stirring to dissolve any clumps of flour between batches. Increase heat to bring the mixture to a boil; return heat to medium. Stir the sour cream into the mixture until well integrated.
  13. Dissolve the cornstarch into the cold milk; stir into the soup. Increase the heat to medium-high and cook the soup until it begins to bubble on the sides
  14. but not boiling; again return heat to medium
  15. stirring continually. Add the lemon juice
  16. cayenne pepper sauce
  17. salt
  18. and pepper; stir. Serve hot.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 30 mins

Total Time: 50 mins

Servings: 4

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