Creamy Broccoli Soup
"I never knew there was a secret to making broccoli soup. But last year I made several different recipes and found that there is a secret ingredient, it's buttermilk! Here's the culmination of my broccoli soup efforts, adapted from the Hill Family on fooddotcom."
Ingredients
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Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (212.6 g)
- Calories 146.3
- Total Fat - 10 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.1 g
- Cholesterol - 27.1 mg
- Sodium - 453.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 11 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 4.8 g
- Protein - 4.1 g
- Calcium - 100.4 mg
- Iron - 0.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 29.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.1 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Melt butter in a 3 quart saucepan over medium heat, saute onion until softened. Meanwhile, chop broccoli.
Step 2
Add remaining soup ingredients and bring to a boil, then simmer 10 minutes.
Step 3
Pour soup into blender and puree. Wipe out saucepan with a paper towel, being careful not to burn your hand.
Step 4
Make white sauce by melting butter in pan, whisk in flour and cook until roux (butter and flour) turns a light, golden color, 5 minutes or so.
Step 5
Add the milk a little at a time, icnreasing the heat to medium-high and whisking continually until sauce thickens.
Step 6
Reduce heat to low, add soup back to pan, then add buttermilk. Cook a couple more minutes than serve.
Tips
No special items needed.