Ww Low Fat Mushroom Soup

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 30 g pearl barley
• 1 carrot, peeled
• 4 sticks celery
• 1 onion, peeled
• 500 g mushrooms, rinsed
• 4 cloves garlic, peeled
• 3 cups chicken stock (i use 2 stock cubes and water)
• milk (optional)

Recipe

• 1 put the pearl barley in a pan with 3 cups cold water. bring to the boil and simmer for 45 minutes, checking on it often to make sure it doesn't boil dry.
• 2 meanwhile, chop the rest of the veggies, including the garlic.
• 3 drain the pearl barley, rinse and drain again.
• 4 put the pearl barley, veggies, garlic and chicken stock in a pan, cover and simmer for 30 minutes until all the veggies are softened.
• 5 blend the soup well until it is of a smooth consistency.
• 6 this makes quite a thick soup- i like to add milk after blending but you could simply increase the amount of stock you use.