I made Hungarian mushroom soup and it’s a little too delicious to be real
BUNJY RECIPE BOOK- HUNGARIAN MUSHROOM SOUP
Ingredients:
4 tbsp butter
1 large white onion, diced
16 oz white mushrooms, sliced into half-slices or diced
3 tbsp flour (gluten-free okay)
1 ½ tbsp paprika
3 cups veggie or chicken stock
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 cup 2% milk (yes, it has to be 2%)
½ cup sour cream (results not guaranteed for lite version)
1 ½ tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp chopped fresh dill, slightly less for dried dill
¼ cup chopped parsley
salt and pepper
okay! so take a large saucepan and heat over medium low, and melt the butter in it. add the mushrooms and turn the heat up a notch or so and cover, stirring occasionally until the mushrooms give up their liquid. once the pot gets soupy, add the onion and put the lid back on until the mushrooms are brown and the onion is fully cooked through. once this is achieved, remove the lid and cook off most (not all!) of the liquid. at this point, add the flour and paprika TOGETHER, and mix! this will get gluey and start sticking all over the place- that’s fine. cook while stirring for a few minutes, enough for the paprika to gain aroma and the flour to darken. next, add the stock and soy sauce, and stir to work all of the clumps of flour off the bottom of the pan and into the liquid. once the soup is smooth, add the milk and bring to a light boil. once the pot boils, lower to the heat to a simmer and ignore for 10 minutes. once the time is up, REMOVE THE PAN FROM THE HEAT and allow to cool slightly. once the pan is no longer scorching hot, add the sour cream and dill, and stir it in. lastly, add the lemon juice and parsley, plus salt and pepper to taste, and stir again to make it all a smooth lovely soup. serve immediately.
now that this has left my bubble and is reaching non-usaamericans, here are some amendments for international use!
I used american white button mushrooms, a soft and mild mushroom without a strong flavor. you can use whatever mushrooms you have locally that are equally mild or somewhat savory, strong flavors may throw off the soup balance!
I have 2% milk in the recipe because whole milk can do weird stuff when it’s boiled, as long as you aren’t using whole milk or milk water pretending to be milk you can treat the recipe as it’s written. if you only have whole milk, keep the heat to a LOW simmer and keep an eye on it to watch for weird clumping during that part of the recipe, but you’ll probably be fine. lactose-free milk also works fine.
feel the parsley in your soul. ¼-1/3 of a cup, whatever you end up chopping. be free.
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cats when you step on their tail: i’ll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.
cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,
âKill sheltersâ are the shelters you need to donate to.
âBut shrimp!! Kill shelters are evil!!â
No, shut up, listen to me for a second.
âKill shelterâ is a colloquial term used primarily for Town/City (aka municipal) shelters that rely on incredibly limited government grant funding to operate.
These shelters, by the very nature of their existence, DO NOT HAVE the funds to operate like private rescues do.
On top of this, theyâre also *legally required* to take in ANY animal that comes to them. Even if theyâre full. Or theyâll lose all of their funding.
This is what leads them to needing to euthanize for space. Is euthanizing for space sad? Yes. But due to the current crisis, itâs also NECESSARY.
These shelters are constantly overfull. Theyâre STRUGGLING. They donât have the funds to operate properly. And yet these municipal, government funded, struggling shelters are the same ones that are most likely to be providing care for owned animals in the community
Municipal (âkillâ) shelters are the ones hosting low cost spay and neuter clinics. Theyâre the ones discounting vaccination appointments and microchipping. Theyâre the ones that have pet food banks so struggling pet owners can feed their pets that week.
These shelters are not evil. Theyâre doing the absolute best they can with the bare minimum funding they get.
These people are incredibly resourceful and care very deeply about the animals in their care. It breaks their heart every time they have to euthanize an animal that couldnât get adopted.
These underfunded shelters need your money significantly more than that fancy private rescue you see on TikTok or instagram that has a beautiful facility and has never had to euthanize an animal ever.
Support your local shelters and they will give back to the community thousand fold.
Sincerely, an animal welfare student whoâs tired of seeing the hardest working professionals shat on because of circumstances they canât control.