Mushroom & Blue Cheese Chowder - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    3 cups chopped mushrooms (approx 300gms)
    100 g butter or 1/4 cup olive oil
    3 cloves garlic or 2 teaspoons crushed garlic
    1/2 cup fine chopped onion
    2 tablespoons flour
    salt
    ground pepper
    3 cups chicken stock (or 1/2 chick stock mixed with 1/2 milk)
    To finish soup
    1/2 cup sour cream or 1/2 cup cream
    100 -150 g blue cheese, crumbled (1 - 2 wedges)
    fine sliced mushrooms
    chopped parsley
Preparation
    Heat oil or butter in large pan- stirfry garlic, onions.
    add mushrooms and cook for few minutes.
    Stir through flour, salt& pepper Pour in chick stock or milk mix and simmer 5 mins.
    Remove from heat& blend at least half of soup with blue cheese& cream or sour cream in blender or food processor.
    Mix this puree back in pan with remainder of soup and serve with sliced mushrooms, chopped parsley and some crubled blue cheese to garnish.

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