Creamy Mushroom Soup

Ingredients:

Mushrooms thinly sliced 1 cup
Garlic crushed 1 sp
Butter 1 sp
Onion finely chopped 2 sp
Lemon juice 2 sp
Dry oregano 1 sp
Biryani powder very small pinch
Black pepper powder 1/4th sp
Red chilli flakes 1/4th sp
Maida (All purpose flour) 3 sp
Vegetable stock 2 cups
Olive oil 1 sp
Milk 1/2 cup

Method:

1. Heat butter in a nonstick pan, add the onions and sauté till translucent.
2. Now add the mushrooms and cook till all the water in mushrooms evaporate and they get dry.
3. Then add the garlic, salt, oregano, biryani powder and mix well and cook for a min.
4. Now switch off the flame, add 1 sp lemon juice and mix well and take them into another bowl.
5. Then in the same pan,  heat olive oil, then add 1 sp maida and keep stirring and make sure there are no lumps. When the flour gets light brown colour, add the vegetable stock and let it boil.
6. Take the remaining 2 sp maida in a small bowl, add cool water and mix well without any lumps add this mixture to the boiling vegetable sock and stir well and let it boil.
7. Now add the mushrooms to this boiling soup, add milk, red chilli flakes and add let it boil again for 2 mins.
8. Finally add black pepper powder, 1 sp lemon juice, and adjust salt and spice as required.
9. Serve hot with any bread, pizza or noodles.

10. You can also add chopped baby spinach along with mushroom while sauteeing.