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Home » Recipes » SOUPS » Mushroom Mania 2014, Vino Ristorante & Roasted Mushroom & Cauliflower Soup!

Mushroom Mania 2014, Vino Ristorante & Roasted Mushroom & Cauliflower Soup!

18/07/2014 by Amanda

July is one of my favourite months. I enjoy the cooler weather, the dark rainy days give me the perfect excuse to hunker down in front of the fire with a book and it’s also Mushroom Mania month. Actually, I don’t ever need an excuse to eat mushrooms. They are tasty, nutritious and easy to prepare. One of my favourite lunches when home is simply lots of Swiss Brown mushrooms sliced and fried up in (quite a lot of) butter and served on my home made bread with some fresh goats curd. My idea of heaven and almost guilt-free (if you ignore the amount of butter I use 😉 ).

Mushroom Mania is a hugely successful, national promotion  aimed at spreading the word about how great tasting and great for you mushrooms are. This is a promotion I’m very happy to support as it also supports local mushroom growers – and I love local food. This year the Mushroom Growers Association is sharing the love and you can win one of 30 $100 gift cards just by sharing a mushroom meal you discover. All you really need for this is a smart phone or camera and an appetite for mushrooms! The promotion runs until 31 July, 2014 and all of the details are here, so get yourself over to their site and check out the very simple rules.

Just to get myself into the mushie mood, I headed out for lunch the other day and found myself at Vino Ristorante in beautiful, downtown Unley. Vino are long-time participants in Mushroom Mania and really get into the swing of things by offering a special mushroom menu for the month of July. This menu didn’t disappoint and my best friend and I rolled out of there completely replete, having surprised ourselves by consuming four delicious dishes between us. The mushroom menu at Vino has at least eight divine and different mushroomy ways to seduce you, so check it out.

Of course, if you can’t get out to eat, there’s nothing stopping you from whipping up something at home and, with that in mind, the guys at Mushroom Mania have kindly given me a recipe to share with my readers. This Roasted Mushroom and Cauliflower Soup is absolutely to die for, and easy enough for a novice cook to make. For more mushroom recipes than you ever dreamed possible, head over to the Power of Mushrooms recipe page and get inspired.

Roasted Mushroom & Cauliflower Soup

Mushroom Growers Association
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Prep Time 10 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Total Time 40 minutes mins
Course Soup
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

  • 1 small 600g cauliflower, trimmed, chopped
  • 500 g cup mushrooms sliced
  • 4 tbs olive oil
  • 3 tsp curry powder
  • 1 leek halved lengthways, thinly sliced
  • 4 cups chicken stock
  • ½ cup flat-leaf parsley chopped

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 220°C or 200°C fan forced.
  • Scatter cauliflower over base of a greased roasting pan and mushrooms into another pan. Drizzle 1½ tablespoons of oil over each pan and then sprinkle each pan with 1½ teaspoons curry powder, season and turn to coat. Place cauliflower on top shelf and mushrooms underneath in oven, roast both for 20-25 minutes until tender.
  • Heat remaining oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add leek. Cook, stirring occasionally for 5 minutes or until soft.
  • Pour over stock and bring to the boil.
  • Add roasted cauliflower and mushrooms and return to the boil.
  • Remove from the heat. Blend or process soup, in batches, to desired consistency. Stir in parsley, taste and adjust seasoning. Ladle into warm bowls.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!

Lambs’ Ears and Honey dined compliments of the Mushroom Growers Association.

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Comments

  1. Rachel (Rachel's Kitchen NZ)

    July 18, 2014 at 8:12 am

    Yummmmmmm – I love mushrooms too and now I know what I am going to do with cauli I have in the fridge:)

  2. Lizzy (Good Things)

    July 18, 2014 at 8:29 am

    Loving the #MushroomMania promotion…

  3. celia

    July 18, 2014 at 10:52 am

    That mushroom soup looks very VERY good. I love how it doesn’t have cream in it! 🙂

  4. Maureen | Orgasmic Chef

    July 18, 2014 at 11:58 am

    I must have read this post telepathically this morning because we had the best sauteed mushrooms with breakfast this morning. This soup sounds delicious!

  5. Helen | Grab Your Fork

    July 18, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    Such a lovely sounding soup. Wouldn’t have thought to add curry powder to a mushroom soup before, but definitely going to try it now!

  6. Anna @ shenANNAgans

    July 18, 2014 at 4:23 pm

    Awh Yeah!!! I got me a mushie voucher too, have been dining on delicious mushroom feeds all month. Sooooooo good! Good to see you are enjoying the mushroomie goodness. Gonna whip up a batch of mushroom & cauliflower soup tomorrow. Happy weekend! Stay warm. Cheers, Anna

  7. InTolerant Chef

    July 18, 2014 at 7:29 pm

    Oh so yummy Amanda! Mushrooms are so delicious and bonus points for being good for you too 🙂

  8. Sally - My Custard Pie

    July 20, 2014 at 6:15 am

    I’m always in a ‘mushie mood’ 🙂

  9. My Kitchen Stories

    July 20, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    I love mushrooms. What a great idea. Thats a soup I wouldn’t have thought to whip up. Thanks

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