Cream Of Wild Mushroom Soup

• 5 cups vegetable broth
• 1/2 cup butter, divided
• 1 carrot, cut into matchstick-size pieces
• 1/2 white onion, cut into matchstick-size pieces
• 1/2 leek, cut into matchstick-size pieces
• 2 stalks celery, cut into matchstick-size pieces
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 2 small yellow squash, cut into matchstick-size pieces
• 2 small zucchini, cut into matchstick-size pieces
• 2 ounces shiitake mushrooms, thinly sliced
• 2 ounces chanterelle mushrooms, thinly sliced
• 2 ounces oyster mushroom caps, coarsely chopped
• 2 white button mushrooms, thinly sliced
• 1 portobello mushroom, quartered and thinly sliced
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1 pinch cayenne pepper
• 1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 1 bunch chives, chopped

1. Pour vegetable broth into a large pot; bring to a simmer over medium heat.
2. Melt 1/4 cup butter in a large saucepan over low heat; increase heat to medium. Add carrot; cook and stir until starting to soften, 3 to 5 minutes. Add onion, leek, celery, and garlic; cook and stir until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Add yellow squash and zucchini; cook for 2 minutes.
3. Pour carrot mixture into the vegetable broth. Keep broth simmering over low heat.
4. Melt remaining 1/4 cup butter in the saucepan. Cook and stir chanterelle mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, button mushrooms, and portobello mushroom in the hot butter until starting to soften, about 5 minutes. Sprinkle flour over mushroom mixture; stir until a paste forms, 2 to 3 minutes.
5. Stir mushroom and flour mixture into the vegetable broth. Pour in heavy cream; simmer until heated through, about 8 minutes. Season with cayenne, salt, and pepper. Garnish soup with chives.

vegetable broth, butter, carrot, white onion, stalks celery, clove garlic, yellow squash, zucchini, shiitake mushrooms, chanterelle mushrooms, mushroom caps, white button mushrooms, portobello mushroom, allpurpose, heavy whipping cream, cayenne pepper, salt, chives

Taken from www.allrecipes.com/recipe/256361/cream-of-wild-mushroom-soup/ (may not work)