Broccoli Gloucester Soup

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 large yellow onion
• 2 lbs broccoli
• 1 bay leaf
• 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 8 fluid ounces dry
• 1/2 lb double gloucester cheese (or any mild, cheddar style cheese)
• 3 cups cream or 3 cups milk
• salt
• white pepper

Recipe

• 1 peel the onion and slice thinly.
• 2 clean the broccoli well and remove any leaves from the stalks.
• 3 cut the stalks into thin medallions, and cut the florets into roughly 2-inch chunks.
• 4 you may want to reserve 4 or 6 nice florets to steam and use as garnish in the finished soup bowls.
• 5 melt the butter in a 6-quart soup pot and add the onion and broccoli pieces.
• 6 sauté until softened, but don't brown the onion.
• 7 add the and let it come to a simmer.
• 8 grate the cheese (for a real treat, use stilchester cheese if you can find it) and add to the soup pot.
• 9 purée in a food processor or with a hand held blender until well puréed and the cheese is incorporated.
• 10 return to the pot and add the milk or cream and add salt and white pepper to taste.