Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, broccoli cheese soup. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Broccoli Cheese Soup is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Broccoli Cheese Soup is something that I have loved my entire life.
This flavorful soup is made without heavy cream, milk or flour—or even vegetable broth. You'll just need a few basic ingredients to make it Broccoli Cheese Soup. The easiest and the best Broccoli Cheese Soup - this soup recipe is high on the list of our favorites.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook broccoli cheese soup using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Broccoli Cheese Soup:
- Take 3 tbsp butter
- Get 2 tbsp cold butter, cubed
- Prepare 1/2 cup yellow onion, diced
- Take 1/2 cup sliced leek, white part only, well rinsed
- Take 1/2 tsp sea salt
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cracked pepper
- Make ready 1 pinch fresh grated nutmeg
- Get 1 clove garlic, minced
- Make ready 1 tsp fresh thyme, chopped
- Make ready 3 cup vegetable broth
- Make ready 3 each heads of broccoli florets, chopped
- Prepare 1/2 cup heavy cream
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup grated cheddar
- Get 3 tbsp flour, use rice flour for gluten free
You can make it with fresh or frozen broccoli and any type of cheese that melts well. This recipe calls for sharp cheddar cheese. This easy Broccoli Cheese Soup recipe is based upon Panera's, but if you ask me, it's better! If you love Panera Bread's Broccoli Cheddar Soup, you are going to be amazed with this copycat recipe!
Instructions to make Broccoli Cheese Soup:
- In a large stock pot, saute onions a leek in 3 tablespoons of butter with salt, pepper and nutmeg- until softened,
- Add garlic and thyme until fragrant, 30 seconds
- Sprinkle flour in and cook about 2 minutes
- Slowly whisk in broth, stirring constantly, and bring to a boil
- Reduced heat and let simmer for five minutes
- Add broccoli florets and continue simmering for 20 minutes until broccoli is tender
- Add cream and simmer until warmed through
- Stir in cheese until melted
- Stir in cold butter
Broccoli Cheese Soup is the ultimate comfort food! This is deliciously cheesy, amazingly rich and creamy, and it has plenty of fresh broccoli (cut into itty bitty pieces of course) dotted throughout. Serve the soup as is, mash with a potato masher to break up the broccoli a bit, or transfer to a blender in two batches and puree completely. My easy Broccoli Soup is a simple Cream of Broccoli Soup that's thick and creamy with an extra hit of flavour from cheddar cheese! This soup was incredible, and sure enough, my kids ate it with minimal fuss even with the broccoli.
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