Quick Soup Powder
This quick soup powder combines dried porcini mushrooms, vegetable stock powder and fried onions into a versatile pantry base. The Thermomix grinds and blends everything into a fine, fragrant powder in seconds. Simply stir a few spoonfuls into hot water for an instant mushroom soup, or use it to boost flavour in sauces, stews and risottos throughout the week.
About this recipe
Quick Soup Powder Thermomix TM7 is the ultimate homemade convenience base: a jar full of deeply savoury powder made from dried porcini mushrooms, vegetable stock powder, ready-made fried onions and dried lentils. Searching for quick soup recipes or an all-in-one kitchen machine solution for busy weeknights? This starter-style soup base delivers. The TM7 grinds the porcini to release their intense umami aroma, then blends all ten ingredients into a uniform powder that keeps for weeks in a sealed jar. Simply whisk a few spoonfuls into boiling water and you have a steaming mushroom soup in under a minute, with no packets, no additives and no washing-up marathon. It also doubles as a seasoning for sauces, gravies, marinades and risottos, making it a genuine meal-prep hero. Budget-friendly, vegetarian and endlessly adaptable, this powder proves that the best convenience food is the kind you make yourself.
Preparation tips
- Store the soup powder in a thoroughly dry, airtight glass jar away from sunlight; any moisture will make the potato starch clump and shorten the shelf life of your porcini blend considerably.
- For a clearer soup, whisk the powder into the water first and let it stand briefly before heating, so the cornflour and potato starch dissolve evenly without forming lumps.
- Start with one tablespoon of powder per cup of water, taste, then add more; the porcini and stock powder are quite salty, so extra sea salt is rarely needed.
Recipe variations
- Gluten-free version: replace the fried onions with homemade dried onion flakes and swap cornflour for extra potato starch, keeping the porcini flavour identical while making the powder fully gluten-free.
- Festive variant: add a pinch of dried thyme and a little ground nutmeg to the finished powder, then tie a decorated jar with ribbon for a heartfelt homemade Christmas gift.
Thermomix TM7 Benefits
- Dried porcini mushrooms are chopped to a fine, even crumb in seconds, releasing their deep umami aroma without any manual knife work. [Multi-Function]
- Grinding the dried lentils, the TM7 turns them into a smooth powder that thickens the soup naturally, faster than any food processor. [Time Savings]
- In just a few seconds of mixing, the vegetable stock powder, garlic powder and pepper combine into a uniform blend with consistent flavour in every spoonful. [Multi-Function]
- Weighing each ingredient directly into the mixing bowl guarantees the exact balance of sea salt and starch, with no separate scales to wash up. [Precision Control]
- Gentle heating of the fried onions before blending deepens their sweetness, giving the finished soup powder a richer, rounded taste than raw additions. [Multi-Function]
Ingredients
- dried porcini mushrooms
- dried red lentils
- fried onions, ready-made
- sea salt
- vegetable stock powder
- ground black pepper
- garlic powder
- cornflour
- potato starch
- coffee creamer