It snowed here yesterday…again. It is a white winter land outside this year, and it makes me hungry for a nice hot bowl of soup. Here’s a lovely recipe. It’s rich, and creamy and perfect with a nice loaf of crusty bread.
Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 med. onion -diced
- 2 garlic cloves -minced
- 6 cups of chicken stock
- 2 heads of broccoli -cut into pieces, including the stems
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1/2 cup cold water
- 2 cups of half and half
- 2 1/2 cups cheddar cheese -grated
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large sauce pan, and add onions and garlic. Sauté until translucent.
- Add the chicken stock to the pot, and the broccoli pieces and cook for 10 min. or until the broccoli is soft.
- Remove from the heat and use a immersion blender to puree the mixture.
- Combine flour with cold water and stir to remove all the lumps, then add to the soup mixture. Return mixture to the heat, and allow to boil for one min. to cook out the flour.
- Lower the heat, and add the cream and cheese to the mixture. Season with salt and pepper. Heat carefully over a low heat, taking care not to let the soup boil after the cream and cheese are added. Enjoy!
The first time I made this soup, without the flour to thicken it and with more cream and milk, it split on me. It still tasted great but lost its lovely silky texture. I tweaked the recipe and made sure not to let the soup get too hot after I added the cream and cheese and it worked out great. So, be very careful not to let it get too hot, and never to let it boil after the cream and cheese is added in.
With a nice big bowl of this to enjoy on a snowy winter day, life really is a party!
ps. in case you missed me Monday, I was busy enjoying Family Day with my peeps. We slept in, and spent the morning in our pj’s watching cooking shows -I’m totally addicted to “My Kitchen Rules” right now a cooking competition show from Australia. I watched while my girls played playmobile. We also did some baking, and then went outside to play in the snow and turned our deck stairs into our own little luge run -complete with a skipping rope tow line to pull the sled back up to the top! After that it was time for some more of the yummy Coconut Hot Chocolate we made on the blog a week or so ago. I hope you had a lovely weekend too!
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