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.
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