Mushroom Medley Scape Soup

Name: Mushroom Medley Scape Soup
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 cup cashews ((whole, raw, organic)); 3 1/2 cup filtered water; 5 cups mushrooms ((chunked, mixed, organic, used 2 cups white button mushrooms, and 3 cups mixed of Trumpet Royal, Forest Nameko, Velvet Pioppini and Maitake Frondosa varieties, equal parts) PS- I saved the smallest mushrooms for garnish-optional )); 5 garlic scapes ((raw, organic, wash well)); 1 cherry bomb pepper ((large, organic, halve, de-seed and fine chop))

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Joelle Amiot in Main Dish, Raw Food Recipes

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Level

Easy

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Total

15min

Serves

Level

Easy

Ingredients

Ingreds.

Total

15min

Oh garlic scape, where have you been all my life?!?! I can’t believe I have never heard of them before– let alone never tried them until today… The flavor is of a soft, velvety garlic with a hint of green… hope this computes with you because this is what I describe it as. It still has a very slight bite of garlic but then it mellows out to velvet… picture it? When I saw these I squealed with glee (to myself of course) and then I was on a mission. My mission was to try to create a dish that would highlight a flavor that I did not know about. Lucky for me (and you) the market also had an abundance of exotic mushrooms too. I can’t think of a more perfect marriage of flavors than mushrooms and garlic!

So -going on my gut feeling that this is a match made in culinary heaven, I bought a variety of mushrooms and the scapes to create my MUSHROOM MEDLEY SCAPE SOUP. Not to brag but I was right!

Ingredients

1 cup cashews (whole, raw, organic)
3 1/2 cup filtered water
5 cups mushrooms (chunked, mixed, organic, used 2 cups white button mushrooms, and 3 cups mixed of Trumpet Royal, Forest Nameko, Velvet Pioppini and Maitake Frondosa varieties, equal parts) PS- I saved the smallest mushrooms for garnish-optional )
5 garlic scapes (raw, organic, wash well)
1 cherry bomb pepper (large, organic, halve, de-seed and fine chop)

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Directions

Prep

5 min

Total

15 min

In your blender, grind the cashews to a fine meal and add 1 cup water and blend on high for 1 minute.
Now add 2 cups mushrooms and blend well. Add the rest of the water and mushrooms and blend on high until smooth.
Snap the woody ends off 4 of the garlic scapes and break them into quarters. Add to the blender and blend on high until smooth, about 2 minutes–this is your soup mixture.
Fine slice the 1 remaining garlic scape for garnish.
Heat the soup mixture on low heat until it reaches 105 degrees F [use a calibrate thermometer to be sure].
Place in serving bowls and garnish evenly with the scape slices, cherry bomb dices, and mini mushrooms if you saved them like I did.