Friday Night Soup For Two

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 2
• 2 (15 ounce) cans chicken broth, divided
• 1 (5 ounce) bag of cocktail cooked shrimp
• 1 (7 ounce) can mushroom stems and pieces, drained
• 1/2 cup uncooked rice
• 1/4 cup onion, diced
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder or 1 garlic clove, diced
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 tablespoon butter

Recipe

• 1 heat the olive oil in a medium sized sauce pan, add the butter and stir until melted.
• 2 sauté the onion in the oil/butter until transparent. add the rice and stir until coated with the oil/butter, and then add the mushroom pieces, followed by 1 cup of the chicken broth.
• 3 cover, reduce the heat to the absolute minimum cook for 15 minutes. turn off the flame and let the rice sit (do not peek) covered for another 10 minutes.
• 4 divide the rice/mushroom between 2 soup bowls.
• 5 add the remaining chicken broth to the sauce pan and heat until it starts to boil.
• 6 add thawed shrimp to the boiling chicken broth, followed by the garlic, immediately turn off the heat, stir, and pour into the bowls.
• 7 adjust taste with salt, pepper, or maybe lemon juice.