"This is a lovely creamed soup, thick with veggies and flavor. A country inn near us serves a soup similar to this, and has for years attracted people with it. The unique flavor is the cumin and is great with homemade bread and a salad."

Original is 5-6 servings

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Step by Step Method

Step 1

NOTE: Before you start the basil, tarragon, and cumin are added to taste--keep tasting until ou get it the way you want it.

Step 2

Break up the broccoli into tiny florettes and simmer alone in a separate pan; set aside to add last.

Step 3

Cover the bottom of a large pot with butter and slowly saute onions till golden, but not brown; add the sweet potato and zucchini.

Step 4

Stir till veggies are hot and then cover with the chicken stock and slowly simmer till tender.

Step 5

Put a colander down into the pot of liquid so that the liquid is the only thing coming up through the holes; add Creamora and whisk till incorporated.

Step 6

Add celery seed, nutmeg, basil, tarragon, cumin, salt, and pepper; bring to a boil.

Step 7

Add potato flakes into the colander whisking all the time till thick; gently take out the colander and stir--you can use more or less depending on the thickness you want.