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Cream Soup Substitute - Core




Source of Recipe


WW Community


Recipe Introduction


If you've been missing casseroles made with canned cream soup, here's a mix you can make to substitute. The thickener is 3/4 point per "can" of soup, so zero points per serving of casserole. It's pretty good, basically an instant cream sauce, and doesn't taste particularly ersatz.


List of Ingredients




2 cups nonfat dry milk powder
1 cup sweet rice flour OR 3/4 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup instant chicken bouillon granules
1/2 tsp dried crushed thyme (optional)
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/4 tsp ground white or black pepper

Recipe



Combine ingredients and store in an airtight container.

To prepare substitute for 1 can of condensed cream soup in recipes, stir together 1/3 cup mix and 1 1/4 cup water in a saucepan. Cook and stir until thickened.

For mushroom soup, add chopped mushrooms. For celery soup, added chopped celery. For broccoli, add fresh or frozen chopped broccoli. Etc.

Mix makes the equivilant of 9 cans condensed soup.

About sweet rice flour: It's also known as glutinous rice flour or mochiko. Do not substitute regular rice flour. The one I use is Blue Star Brand. Usually found in the Asian foods section of the supermarket (including Safeway, Ralph’s, Savemart, Von’s, Albertsons, and Mayfair). Also available online from www.globalfoodcompany.com and others. When used as a thickener, the technique is similar to using cornstarch, but the product doesn’t have that translucent, somewhat gelatinous quality of a cornstarch thickened sauce. Unlike gravies made with a roux, when you freeze gravies thickened with sweet rice flour, they don’t thin out when you thaw them.