Easy broccoli soup recipe | Healthy soup recipes

Broccoli soup recipe with step by step detailed photos. Super easy with simplest ingredients available in your pantry, just milk, butter, onion as main ingredients along with broccoli.

Perfect for cozy dinner in winters or when you want to include broccoli in your diet.

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• Broccoli Soup Ingredients
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• Variations
• Top tip
• Serving suggestions
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Broccoli soup from scratch is one idea given by my friend Sangeeta, I couldn't get recipe from her, so I adapted slightly from this recipe.

This is perfect when you want to include broccoli but you do not like it. With simple pantry staples, it is so easy to put together in minutes for a healthy dinner along with some toast.

Why you will love this:

• No ingredients like broth, cheese
• Just uses milk/ cream
• Light on tummy yet tasty with a little bit of butter
• Beginner friendly & vegetarian.
• Easily can be adapted for vegan version.

Broccoli Soup Ingredients

Here are the simple ingredients to make Broccoli soup.

• Broccoli - Use fresh ones for best taste, colour.
• Onion - Base flavour
• Butter - For a mild creamy flavour
• Milk - Adds creaminess
• All purpose flour - Binding agent and gives thickness
• Black pepper - For spice, flavour and it's goodness

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You can blanch the broccoli before using in the recipe. It's optional but if you want you can blanch. Keep in mind that blanching makes broccoli retain some water and takes time to dry off while sauteeing.

1. Firstly, in a pan, sautee broccoli, onion with butter, salt and pepper, in medium to low flame, until onion turns translucent. Say 4 mins roughly.

2. After that, add all purpose flour to it and stir until it turns dull in color. Approximately 1 minute.

3. Then add 1 & ½ cup to 2 cups water to this and boil until the broccoli gets cooked (check stalk for doneness) approx 6 minutes. No need to cover and cook.

4. Use an immersion blender to blend it to a smooth soup. If you don't have a blender, strain in a colander/ metal strainer, cool down, puree it and again mix with the soup heat it again.

5. Lastly add cream, mix and heat again until it bubbles. The best simple Broccoli soup ready!

Adjust salt and pepper and serve hot with toast, you can have it dipped in the soup, tastes awesome!

Variations

• Gluten free option - If you want to make it gluten free, hack the recipe with cornstarch or rice flour, the next easily available for thickening the soup. You can also use.
• Vegan - Use olive oil instead of butter and non dairy milk or cream in place of cow's milk. Coconut milk works best, especially if you cannot stand the broccoli flavour. Use organic brands without any harmful thickening agents.

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Top tip

• I used milk, so added ¼ cup for the recipe. If you want you can also use cooking cream/ cream to make it more richer. You just need 2-3 tablespoon of cream for this soup.
• Choose fresh green broccoli for best results. Also never let the broccoli lose it's color by over cooking.
• You can use a potato for thicker soup.

Serving suggestions

Broccoli soup goes well with a healthy whole grain toast, a pull-apart bread, any salad or even roasted vegetables. Always serve it warm though chilled soup tastes good as well.

It can be refrigerated for 4-5 days if stored properly and freezes well up to a month. Just pack as individual servings and store. When needed, reheat and consume.

In the video below, the measure is roughly doubled. But no compromise in taste.

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