Cheddar Broccoli Soup
Cheddar Broccoli Soup

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have cheddar broccoli soup using 14 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Cheddar Broccoli Soup:
  1. Take small (about 3 1/2 cups) heads of broccoli (chopped)
  2. Make ready (about 2 cups) carrots (shredded)
  3. Get medium onion (sweet or white)
  4. Take unsalted butter
  5. Make ready All Purpose Flour
  6. Get Chicken or vegetable broth
  7. Take Half n Half
  8. Get nutmeg (ground)
  9. Prepare Pepper-add
  10. Take Salt-add
  11. Take Red pepper (ground or flake)- add
  12. Prepare Shredded Sharp Cheddar
  13. Prepare garlic-chopped (Optional)
  14. Take Bacon Bits or Pieces (For garnish-Optional)

Slowly add chicken broth and season with salt and pepper. Broccoli Cheddar Soup is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a soup of pureed broccoli and broth with cheese. Although it's pureed, it does still have some texture in it from small bits of broccoli, which is very welcome. There are a few keys to making this soup really special: Blanch the broccoli: I like to blanch the broccoli before.

Steps to make Cheddar Broccoli Soup:
  1. Prep all ingredient. Chop broccoli (bite size,each piece should fit on a spoon). Finely chop onion & garlic (if adding). Shred carrots. Measure out flour and liquid ingredients. This will make cooking quicker.
  2. Start by heating butter in a pot on med-low heat.
  3. Once butter has melted, add onions and garlic until translucent.
  4. Add flour,stir. Let flour lightly brown. (If it doesnt brown you will have a very flour-ie taste to your soup).
  5. Once flour has browned,add your half n half.
  6. Let it come to a simmer on medium-low heat for about 10 minutes.
  7. Add chicken or vegetable broth and stir.
  8. Now, add carrots & broccoli and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until broccoli is tender.
  9. Turn heat to low. Add your seasonings-salt,pepper,red pepper flakes,and nutmeg. Stir.
  10. Stir in cheese and turn heat off. Let cheese melt and serve!

Melt the butter in a large Dutch oven or pot over medium heat. In a large saucepan, saute onion and garlic in butter until tender. Gradually stir in broth; bring to a boil. Soup is a popular meal choice in our home especially when it's cold outside. Grey could eat this tomato basil soup every meal of the day if I let him and Bentley inhales this creamy vegetable soup.

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