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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
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• Instructions

• Cuisine

  North American >> US >> US

• Dietary Style

• Preparation Time

  Cooking Time - 40 minutes, Preparation Time - 15 minutes

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| 1. Place the bacon in a large, deep skillet, and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Drain the bacon slices on a paper towel-lined plate. Crumble bacon when cool; set aside. Reserve 1 tablespoon of bacon drippings. | 2. Melt butter with drippings in a saucepan over medium heat. | 3. Cook and stir celery and onion in the saucepan until onion is translucent, about 4 minutes. | 4. Whisk flour into the mixture and cook for 1 minute. | 5. Whisk in chicken broth and bring to a boil. | 6. Add potato and chopped asparagus stalks, reserving the asparagus tips for later. Season with salt and ground black pepper. | 7. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes. | 8. Pour the soup into a blender, filling the pitcher no more than halfway full. Hold down the lid of the blender with a folded kitchen towel, and carefully start the blender, using a few quick pulses to get the soup moving before leaving it on to puree. Puree in batches until smooth and pour into a clean pot. Alternately, you can use a stick blender and puree the soup right in the cooking pot. | 9. Cook and stir mushrooms and asparagus tips in the same skillet used for bacon until mushrooms give up their liquid, 5 to 8 minutes. Season with salt and ground black pepper, if needed. | 10. Stir mushrooms, asparagus tips, and half-and-half cream to pureed soup. Cook until thoroughly heated. | 11. Garnish soup with crumbled bacon. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
bacon	3	slices		350.28	1.0752	10.6008	33.3396
bacon dripping	1	tablespoon		-	-	-	-
butter	1/4	cup		342.0	15.714	10.686	28.8
celery	3	stalks	chopped	30.72	5.7024	1.3248	0.3264
onion	1		diced	64.0	14.944	1.76	0.16
purpose flour	3	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
chicken broth	6	cups		468.72	11.34	66.8304	15.7248
	1		peeled diced	-	-	-	-
asparagus	1	pound	chopped	90.7186	17.5994	9.979	0.5443
salt black pepper	to taste		ground	-	-	-	-
mushroom	1	package	sliced	-	-	-	-
half cream	3/4	cup		102.66	15.66	4.524	2.436

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.