Broccoli And Three Cheeses Soup
From krumkake 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Since we’ve had nothing but cold weather around here this winter, I’ve been craving soup every day, and a cheesy broccoli soup is one of my favorites. I combined several different recipes and came up with this as my most recent favorite. Read more If you’re not familiar with the Penzey’s seasoning that I listed in the ingredients, they are available online at Penzeys.com – they have an amazing array of spices, and I have liked anything I've ever purchased from them. The 4/S seasoning is a great blend of spices! See less
Ingredients
- 2 big bunches of broccoli, stems removed (about 4 to 5 cups of flowerets) shopping list
- 2 (32 ounce) boxes chicken stock shopping list
- 4 tablespoons butter shopping list
- ¾ cup diced sweet onion shopping list
- ¾ cup celery, peeled and sliced (yes, I peel the outside of my celery stalks with a potato peeler and you will see it has a milder flavor and won’t be stringy - try it!) shopping list
- 1 clove garlic, freshly minced shopping list
- ¼ cup flour shopping list
- 2 teaspoons Penzey’s 4/S (Special seasoned Sea Salt: a blend of sea salt, sugar, extra bold pepper, paprika, onion, turmeric, garlic, and extracts of celery, rosemary and thyme) shopping list
- 1 cup cubed American or Velvetta cheese shopping list
- 1 cup Extra sharp cheddar cheese, grated shopping list
- ½ cup grated gruyere cheese shopping list
- ½ cup sour cream shopping list
- 1 cup low-fat or regular half-and-half shopping list
- Roux for thickening: shopping list
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted shopping list
- 6 tablespoons flour shopping list
- For garnish: shopping list
- grated extra sharp cheddar cheese shopping list
- crushed garlic cheese croutons shopping list
How to make it
- In a large soup pot, bring stock to boiling and add broccoli flowerets; boil until broccoli is tender-crisp, about 4 to 5 minutes.
- Remove broccoli from pot and set aside.
- While broccoli is boiling, melt 4 tablespoons butter in skillet; add onion and celery.
- Sauté onion and celery just until onion becomes transparent.
- Add garlic to onion/celery in pan; stir for about 1 minute, allowing the garlic flavor to infuse, but do not let it brown or burn.
- Sprinkle ¼ cup flour and 4/S seasoning (or your own blend of seasonings if you do not have Penzey’s) over veggies and garlic; stir briskly to coat them with the flour and salt.
- Add flour coated veggie mixture to chicken stock; whisk to blend into the stock thoroughly.
- Add cheeses and broccoli to pot, stirring gently until cheeses are melted.
- Use an immersion blender to pulverize most of the soup contents. If you don’t have an immersion blender, you can mash the contents using a potato masher, or put about ¾ of the soup into a blender (in batches, if needed) to pulverize, leaving some of the veggie chunks in the soup.
- Prepare roux by stirring 6 tablespoons flour into melted 2 tablespoons of butter to form a thick paste.
- In a small bowl, stir about ½ cup of the soup into the roux to thin it out, and then stir it back into the soup; heat soup thoroughly.
- A few minutes before serving, stir about ½ cup of the hot soup into the sour cream, stirring to thin it enough to pour it back into the soup in a stream (I’ve found this helps keep the sour cream from clumping up in the hot soup and/or separating).
- Add half-and-half to soup; heat soup thoroughly.
- Place soup in bowls; garnish with some grated cheddar and a handful of crushed croutons.
Add garlic to sauted onion and celery
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Stir flour into veggie garlic mixture to coat
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Add flour coated mixture to stock
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Add broccoli and cheeses to soup
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Pulverize most of the veggies in soup
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Add sour cream mixture and then half-and-half to soup before serving
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The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
Krumkake, I love broccoli soup, I love your tweaking, and the four diffrent cheeses. Your spice blend sounds very interesting. You are an inspiration to us all!!
gagagrits
in Irmo loved it
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I agree with Gaga, love this soup and the four cheeses in here! Looks and sounds hearty and so comforting!
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in Clayton loved it
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YUM doesn't cover it!!
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