Broccoli And Blue Cheese Soup

April 29, 2024

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Calling all blue cheese followers… this easy and creamy Broccoli And Blue Cheese Soup is totally PACKED with flavour!

With solely half-hour cooking time, this pleasant veggie packed soup, with a blue cheese twist, is a superb starter or mid-week meal.

Broccoli and blue cheese soup in a bowl with a gold spoon.

The comforting combo of contemporary broccoli with the earthy flavour of blue cheese makes this warming gourmand soup a prime favorite of mine. Add some crusty bread for a deliciously hearty meal.

A giant bowl of soup affords such a budget-friendly meal, and there is loads of straightforward choices akin to my basic roast pumpkin soup, wholesome rooster and vegetable soup, and creamy zucchini soup.

One other all-time favorite of mine is my creamy mushroom soup – in the event you love mushrooms, you may LOVE this soup!

Let’s get cooking…!

An overhead shot of soup with blue cheese crumbled over the top.

Why You are Going To Love This Recipe

Broccoli and blue cheese soup takes the common-or-garden bowl of soup to a wholly new degree! Have some heat crusty bread available to dip in!

So fast & straightforward – simply prep the veggies, simmer and mix – there you’ve it, a gourmand dish in 40 minutes flat!
Blue cheese – provides this soup a distinct delicate depth of flavour and is more likely to convert even those that say they’re averse to the style of blue cheese!
Wholesome choice – full of greens, this soup just isn’t solely tremendous tasty however so nutritious as nicely. A good way to spice up your each day vegetable consumption in a single tasty bowl!
Freezer pleasant – it is all the time helpful to have a couple of meals obtainable within the freezer for these nights when you recognize you are going to be operating brief on time!

What You Want

Loaded with veggies, this broccoli and blue cheese soup is nutritious AND scrumptious!

Be aware: Scroll to the recipe card on the backside for the elements portions and full detailed technique.

Olive oil and butter – to saute the onion, celery and leek.
Onion – one medium brown onion, finely diced.
Celery – diced into small items.
Leek – washed and finely sliced.
Potatoes – two medium sized potatoes, peeled and diced.
Broccoli – two heads of broccoli, reduce into florets.
Rooster inventory – or vegetable inventory. Use a retailer purchased liquid inventory akin to Campbell’s for comfort, or make up liquid from inventory powder. In fact, you possibly can make your personal inventory from scratch in the event you favor.
Blue cheese – akin to Stilton, crumbled.
Pepper – to season. Slightly cracked black pepper excessive simply finishes this dish completely, and because the inventory and blue cheese already comprise salt, you will not want so as to add any further to season.

Ingredients required, set out on a bench top.

Tools Required

In addition to a chopping board and utensils to arrange the greens, you have to a:

Giant saucepan & stove-top.
Meals processor, blender or Thermomix– for mixing the soup.

A close up shot of crumbled blue sheese sprinkled over broccoli soup.

Step By Step Directions

Potatoes thicken this soup completely, whereas the onion, celery and leek make the basic base flavours. Nonetheless it is the broccoli and blue cheese that steal the present and provides this soup its uniquely scrumptious flavour!

Be aware: Scroll to the recipe card on the backside for the elements portions and full detailed technique.

Step 1 – Saute The Onion, Celery & Leek

In a big saucepan over a medium warmth, add the olive oil and butter. Sauté the chopped onion, diced celery and sliced leek for five minutes, or till they’ve softened.

Onion, celery and leek being sauteed in the pot.

Step 2 – Add The Potatoes, Broccoli & Inventory

Add the diced potatoes and broccoli florets to the saucepan.

Diced potato and broccoli florets added to the pot.

Pour within the liquid rooster (or vegetable) inventory.

Liquid stock being poured into the pot of vegetables.

Convey this to a low simmer, cowl and cook dinner (stirring often) for 15-20 minutes or till the greens have softened.

The vegetables in the pot after simmering until cooked.

Step 3 – Mix The Soup

Reserve 1-2 cups of the soup and set this apart.

Utilizing a hand-held blender, meals processor or Thermomix, mix the remaining soup till easy and creamy. Take care when mixing the new soup (see ideas under).

Be aware: if you want the soup to be smoother, mix all the soup.

Add the reserved soup again into the pot with the pureed soup and stir (see ideas under).

Add 120g of the crumbled blue cheese to the soup (reserving the remaining 30g for crumbling excessive). Stir till the cheese has nearly melted via.

Crumbled blue cheese being stirred into the soup.

Season with pepper.

Serve broccoli soup with the further blue cheese crumbled excessive.

Professional Suggestions

Pureeing the soup – leaving the soup uncovered for about 5 minutes will cool it sufficient to securely purée or mix it. In the event you skip this step, there’s a danger that the steam from the new soup will construct strain within the meals processor or blender. This may increasingly trigger the lid to loosen or come off and will lead to burns.
Chunky vs easy soup – mixing all however 1-2 cups of the soup provides you the right stability of a easy and creamy soup with some remaining chunks! In the event you favor a smoother soup, merely mix all the soup.
Storing – retailer any leftover soup in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 2 days.
Freezer pleasant – enable the soup to chill fully after which freeze in an hermetic container for as much as 3 months. Defrost and reheat within the microwave or on the stove-top.
Serving strategies: Do-it-yourself bread rolls , Sourdough bread, Savoury muffins or Pull-apart loaf.

A close up of a white speckled bowl full of broccoli soup.

FAQs

Is the blue cheese flavour robust on this broccoli soup?

Some blue cheeses can have a really robust style when eaten on their very own, nonetheless when melted via this pureed soup, the blue cheese blends simply into the greens to offer this soup a delicate and distinctive style.
It additionally depends upon what kind of blue cheese you select. Some might be extraordinarily sharp, whereas others are creamy and easy – choose your favorite!

What are the several types of blue cheese?

A few of the well-known classics are French roquefort, English stilton, Italian gorgonzola and Danish blue. Nonetheless there are dozens of sorts of blue cheeses made all around the world now, they usually vary from comfortable and creamy, to dry, crumbly and bitey sharp – some are significantly smelly as nicely!
I counsel attempting a creamy delicate blue to start out with!

Searching for some extra wholesome, satisfying and budget-friendly soups? Be sure that to pop some within the freezer too!

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