Mushroom & Blue Cheese Chowder

This is a wonderful flavoured rich soup - even if you dont eat blue cheese (I dont!) try it - great with crusty dinner rolls - enjoy !!

• Ready In: 15 mins
• Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 3  cups  chopped mushrooms (approx 300gms)
• 100  g butter or 1⁄4 cup olive oil
• 3  cloves garlic or 2  teaspoons  crushed garlic
• 1⁄2 cup  fine chopped onion
• 2  tablespoons flour
•  salt
•  ground pepper
• 3  cups  chicken stock (or 1/2 chick stock mixed with 1/2 milk)

• To finish soup

• 1⁄2 cup sour cream or 1⁄2 cup  cream
• 100 -150  g blue cheese, crumbled (1 - 2 wedges)
•  fine  sliced mushrooms
•  chopped parsley

Directions

1. Heat oil or butter in large pan- stirfry garlic, onions.
2. add mushrooms and cook for few minutes.
3. Stir through flour, salt& pepper Pour in chick stock or milk mix and simmer 5 mins.
4. Remove from heat& blend at least half of soup with blue cheese& cream or sour cream in blender or food processor.
5. Mix this puree back in pan with remainder of soup and serve with sliced mushrooms, chopped parsley and some crubled blue cheese to garnish.