Ingredients
Serves: 8
- 1 litre water
- 600g broccoli (mix of florets and stalks)
- 50g butter
- 2 onions, chopped
- 3 sticks celery, chopped
- 60g plain flour
- 2 vegetable stock cubes
- 900ml milk
- salt and black pepper, to taste
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:50min
- Combine water and broccoli in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Cook for 3 minutes. Drain, reserving the cooking liquid.
- In a food processor or blender, process the cooked broccoli until fairly smooth.
- Melt butter in the same saucepan, then add onion and celery and cook for about 5 minutes, until soft. Stir in flour and cook for 2 minutes, stirring constantly. Add reserved cooking liquid and vegetable stock cubes, and bring to the boil. Simmer for a few minutes till thickened.
- Stir in milk, pepper and broccoli, and heat through. Use a hand-held liquidiser to blend to desired consistency, or transfer to a blender or food processor to puree in batches. Adjust seasonings to taste and serve.
Tip
This is a great recipe for using up broccoli stalks that normally get binned. We normally use four regular stalks for this recipe.
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Nice soup! I did use only 1 onion, and that was plenty. I also added a bit of chicken bouillon granules, just to pump up the flavor a bit. We served this with some nice crusty artisan bread, just as the submitter suggested. Tasty! - 14 Feb 2015