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Easy mushroom soup

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This is an earthy, rich-tasting mushroom soup. You could add cream or crème fraîche, at the end as a swirl if you wished, but it doesn't need it.

Ingredients

  • 20g/¾oz dried wild or porcini mushrooms
  • 10²µ/â…“o³ú butter
  • 2 shallots or 1 leek, finely chopped
  • 1 garlic clove, sliced
  • 500g/1lb 2oz fresh mushrooms, a mixture of Portobello, chestnut, button and wild mushrooms, in any combination you like
  • 700ml/1¼ pint chicken or vegetable stock
  • 1 large sprig thyme
  • 25ml/1fl oz sherry or marsala or juice of ½ lemon
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley, to serve