Simply Delicious Cream Of Broccoli Cheese Soup Recipes

Steps:

• In a large nonstick saucepan coated with cooking spray, saute onion until tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in flour until blended. Gradually whisk in broth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until slightly thickened. , Add the broccoli, tarragon, thyme and pepper; return to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes or until broccoli is tender. Add milk; cook, uncovered, 5 minutes longer. Remove from the heat; cool to room temperature., In a blender, process soup in batches until smooth. Return all to the pan; heat through. Reduce heat. Add 1 cup of cheese; stir just until melted. Serve immediately. Garnish with remaining cheese.

Steps:

• 1. In two steps prep the broccoli, peel toughest part of stem then dice into cubes. Cut off then dice the stem off the broccoli florets. Trim the broccoli florets to small pieces, set aside in bowl.
• 2. Boil the diced broccoli stems with a little salt, eiher use 2 cups of water or just add enough water to cover the stems and cook until semi tender then add the broccoli florets with 1 teapoon of Better Than Broth for each 1 cup (8 oz) of liquid added. When the broccoli florets are just tender, use a hand blender to blend out the broccoli. **Remove 1 or so cups of the florets, not the stem and add after blending if some whole florets are preferred in your soup.
• 3.(2 options): Either boil the grated carrot and add or add after blending the soup if you prefer the texture of the grated carrot in the soup.
• 4. Saute diced onion in olive oil until translucent, add the minced garlic, attentively saute' about 3 minutes stirring making sure the garlic does not burn. Add to the soup pot.
• 5. Add 1 Tablespoon of dried Tarragon.
• 6. The Roux: Melt butter in saute' pan with flour, making roux stirring a few minutes until golden brown, slowly add the half and half or milk until thickens adding additional half and half or milk as needed for consisitency, add 1/2 to 1 cup grated cheddar cheese stirring until cheese has melted. Then ladle some of the soup into the cheese sauce stirring, tempering adding several ladles of soup, each time stirring. Once tempered add the sauce to the soup pot and stir well. **If you prefer to stay with the classc roux of equal butter, flour and liquid that is an option. However, I use a cube or 1/2 cup of butter when I double the recipe.
• 7. Add 1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese. I tend to take it easy on the salt when adding cheese, but I do add a little salt at each step. *Making adjustments: to thicknen: cut up more broccoli stems boiling until tender in salt water (in a separate pan), then hand blending and adding, stirring into the soup. This soup gets devoured in our home, so I double this recipe for my family.

Steps:

• Prepare broccoli according to directions. Drain off excess water.
• Add cream of mushroom soup and one can of milk to broccoli. Stir and heat thoroughly on low.
• Add cheese, stirring until melted. Add salt and pepper to taste. Your quick and creamy soup is ready to serve!

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring water and bouillon to a boil. Add broccoli. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 3-4 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain, reserving 3/4 cup liquid. , In another large saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Whisk in flour until blended. Add the milk and cheese. Cook over medium-low heat until thickened and cheese is melted, stirring frequently. Stir in broccoli and reserved cooking liquid.

Steps:

• Melt butter. Cook onion until soft but not brown.
• Stir in flour and cook 3 minutes.
• Whisk in stock and broccoli.
• Bring to boil.
• Reduce heat and simmer 5 to 10 minutes.
• Puree mixture (in food processor or blender).
• Return to heat, add pepper, milk, cheese, and Tabasco sauce.
• Heat thoroughly but do not boil.
• Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary.
• If you are using fresh broccoli, trim off tough stems, chop and cook 15 minutes before putting in blender.