Cooking time: 30 minute(s) Number of servings (yield): 8 My recent discovery is that butter makes soup delicious. You could just as well use a little bit of oil instead of lots of butter to decrease the calories, but butter ends up giving it a really nice flavour.
I absolutely love making pureed soups. It is so much easier to chop the vegetables into large chunks rather than to finely chop every little thing.
This is after the veggies had been sauteed, after the flour had been added and after the chicken stock had been added:
Simmer until the veggies are soft and break apart easily:
Use a hand blender to blend it until it’s smooth. I LOVE using my hand blender for pureed soups. It is so much easier to blend everything together than to pour it into blender. If you want a chunkier soup, cook it for 5 extra minutes and use potato masher to mash it all together.
Now that Jason is gluten free and dairy free (you can check out his gluten and dairy free broccoli soup recipe here), I had to enjoy the entire pot of soup by myself. Which was great, because I poured it into my single serving corningware bowls, threw them in the fridge, and had a healthy and delicious lunch for each day of the following work week, just ready to throw in the microwave at work.
This recipe can be adjusted for whatever your tastes are. If you want to turn it into broccoli cheddar soup, add a small block of shredded cheddar cheese into it. Normally I would add cheddar cheese on top for garnish, but I didn’t have any in the house. Marble cheese does taste good, but it gets really stringy when it melts, so every bite has a long string of cheese from the spoon back to the bowl. I would definitely recommend using cheddar instead.
I could pretty much eat soup every day of the week, any season of the year, and be perfectly content. This soup is hearty enough that with a little bit of cheese added on top and a nice, fresh bakery bun, it makes a filling meal. You could also serve it as a starter before your meal, or serve it with a salad or light sandwich.
