A delicious quick-cooking soup that will warm you on a cold day, but won’t weigh you down. You will love the flavors that come out of this simple and easy to make soup.
Kosher Asian Shiitake Mushroom Soup Recipe
Servings
6 Servings
Ingredients
- 2 3.5-ounce cartons sliced shiitake mushrooms
- 6 cups water
- 2 cups vegetable or chicken broth*
- ¾ cup dry white wine
- 1 leek washed and sliced; use just white part, about 1/2 cup
- 2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger or 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1½ teaspoons toasted sesame oil
- ¼ cup fresh minced parsley or 1 tablespoon dried parsley
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh dill or 1 teaspoon dried dill
- 4 frozen crushed garlic cubes
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Place mushrooms, water, broth, wine, leeks, ginger, sesame oil, parsley, dill, garlic, and salt in a 6-quart stockpot
- Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 50 minutes.
- Ladle into bowls and serve.
Notes
*If using chicken broth this would not be vegan nor pareve.
The main part of the post where I saw this recipe called it part of a vegetarian/vegan meal. Chicken broth obviously isn’t either and shouldn’t be suggested as an option. This could easily confuse someone who is not themselves vegetarian, but is cooking for someone who actually is.
What can you use instead of wine?
Or. . .can you forego using it?
You can just use more broth
I think soft tofu cut into small cubes would be a great addition to this soup, add it at the end or even just to the bowl you are serving it in.
M Gare asked if you could add chicken or tofu to this soup. How would you prepare and add the tofu to this soup?
Sure you can — would be the perfect addition!!!! Specifically white meat chicken/chicken breast or tofu would work excellently here as a protein source.
can i add small chunks of chicken breast to this or will that completely throw it off balance?
Hey Marcia – thanks for commenting and for sharing some of your ideas. Have you seen this post?
http://www.joyofkosher.com/2014/02/best-recipes-for-shabbat-lunch/
or this one?
http://www.joyofkosher.com/2012/08/4-summer-shabbat-lunch-recipes/
Hi Jamie!
Big fan of your recipes. I have a hard time finding easy and delicious recipes for Shabbat lunch since you cannot heat up any liquids on the blech. We are not huge meat and cold cut eaters and I end up shaking and
baking my chicken or doing a meatloaf or turkey salad.
Thanks so much!
Marcia
awesome — and thanks for posting your tweaks.
LOL — noted :-)!!!
it’s a goodie!
YAY – so happy, thanks for sharing!
Ack – I meant to give this 4 stars!
Yummy! Love this recipe! Used 4cups mushroom broth + 2 cups water.
Soup! I love shitake soup..this looks so so delish
we did it for a sheva broches of my brother, it presented and was full of tast