Mixed-up Mushroom Barley Soup

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

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 cups chicken broth or 8 cups vegetable broth
• 1/2 cup pearl barley
• 1/2 cup diced carrot
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon or 1 teaspoon dried tarragon, crumbled
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 cup diced onion
• 2 teaspoons minced garlic
• 10 ounces button mushrooms, remove stems and quarter
• 6 ounces shiitake mushrooms, remove stems and quarter
• salt and pepper
• 2 tablespoons dry sherry
• 4 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

Recipe

• 1 in a large pot, combine broth, barley, carrots and tarragon. bring to a boil.
• 2 reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, partially covered until barley is cooked (approx 30 min).
• 3 heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.
• 4 add diced onion, cook until soft.
• 5 add garlic and mushrooms, cook until soft.
• 6 add mushroom mixture to soup pot.
• 7 season with salt and pepper.
• 8 cook for approximately 20 minute.
• 9 then stir in sherry and parsley.
• 10 adjust seasoning as necessary.