Cream of Broccoli Soup

Here is another super healthy creamy soup prepared with broccoli, stock, and milk or cream as primary ingredients.

It is a Thick, Smooth and Velvety Cream of Broccoli soup with delightful tiny crunchy bites of broccoli in every bite. Exactly the way I like it!

This recipe will make a broccoli lover out of you! It’s simple, yet satisfying.

If that sounds like something you might enjoy too, then head to your kitchen and make it.

Prepare time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Ready in: 35 min

Ingredients:

• 400 gram fresh broccoli flowerets
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 2 tbsp. corn flour
• 2 cups vegetable stock/ water
• 1 cup milk
• 1 bay leaf
• Thyme
• Chopped coriander/parsley
• ½ cup cream
• Salt
• Pepper

Procedure:

1. Chop broccoli roughly, put into a large bowl with butter and cook for 1 minute.
2. Stir in flour and add stock, milk, thyme, parsley, bay leaf, salt and pepper and cook for 10 minutes, stirring several times.
3. Remove the bay leaf and pour the soup into a blender and puree it until smooth.
4. Add cream and re heat the soup for 2 minutes.
5. Blanch a broccoli floweret for garnish.
6. Serve the soup with a broccoli floret.