Wisconsin Cheddar And Broccoli Soup
From chefelaine 14 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 12
This recipe yields 3 quarts, and was taken from the Wiley Professional Cooking 6th Edition collection.
Ingredients
- 8 oz butter shopping list
- 6 oz onion chopped fine shopping list
- 4 oz celery chopped fine shopping list
- 8 oz broccoli stems coarsely chopped shopping list
- 4 oz mushrooms chopped shopping list
- 4.5 oz flour shopping list
- 4.5 pt White stock shopping list
- 1 pt milk hot shopping list
- 12 oz broccoli florets cooked shopping list
- 1 lb sharp cheddar cheese grated shopping list
- 8 fl oz heavy cream hot shopping list
- to taste each salt shopping list
- to taste each white pepper shopping list
How to make it
- Heat the butter in a heavy saucepot over moderate heat.
- Add the onion, celery, broccoli stems, and mushrooms. Sweat the vegetables without letting them brown.
- Add the flour and stir to make a roux. Cook the roux for a few minutes, but do not let it start to brown.
- . Gradually beat in the stock. Bring to a boil, stirring with a whip, as it thickens.
- Simmer until the vegetables are very tender.
- Skim the soup carefully.. Pass the soup through a food mill to purée it.
- Pass the puréed soup through a chinois or fine strainer.
- Add the hot milk to the soup.
- Heat the soup again, but do not let it boil.
- Separate the broccoli florets into pieces small enough to be eaten with a soup spoon. Add them to the soup.
- If the soup is to be served at once, proceed to the next step. Otherwise, cool the soup in a cold water bath and refrigerate until service time. Reheat the soup to a simmer when ready to finish.
- Add the cheese to the soup and stir until all the cheese is melted.
- Carefully reheat the soup, but do not let it boil, or else the cheese may curdle or separate.
- Stir in the heavy cream.
- Season to taste with salt and white pepper.
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This soup is well worth the time to prepare it!! ^5!!!
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OM Goodness this sounds good right now! 5er for sure!
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Sound good
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