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Scrumptious Broccoli Soup

Posted on by Manisha’s Kitchen

Broccoli is a very healthy and nutritious vegetable for all of us. Unfortunately, there are many broccoli haters out there who think that the vegetable tastes bad. However, I believe that they just aren’t eating it right. My scrumptious broccoli soup is just one of the ways to consume this ingredient whilst enjoying or even loving the dish you are eating. Many recipes use cream to make the soup rich and creamy but this also hugely increases the number of calories in it and makes the nutritional value of the broccoli worthless. My recipe will provide you with thick creamy soup but without using any cream, maintaining all of its nutritional value.

Scrumptious Broccoli Soup

So here’s what you need to make this scrumptious broccoli soup.

Ingredients for Broccoli Soup

  • Around 400 g of broccoli
  • 3-4 garlic cloves
  • Small piece of ginger
  • Half a medium sized onion
  • Black pepper (to taste)
  • Salt (to taste)
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • Croutons
Ingredients for Broccoli Soup
  • Prep time: 5 minutes
  • Cooking time: 20 minutes
  • Serves: 4

Step-by-step recipe

  • Cut the broccoli into large chunks and wash them thoroughly. Then put them to boil until they are cooked and feel soft. When this happens, drain the water and keep them aside.
Chop up the broccoli
Boil the broccoli
  • Chop up the onion, garlic and ginger.
Chop up half an onion
Chop up the garlic
Chop up a bit of Ginger
  • Melt some butter on a pan and then add the garlic and ginger. Stir for a bit and then add the onions. Allow them to cook until they brown slightly.
Fry the onion, garlic and ginger on a pan
  • Once they have browned, add the boiled broccoli and mix it in well.
Add the broccoli to the pan
  • Add all of the contents of the pan to a blender to form a paste. Then add some hot water and blend again to make the paste smoother.
blend the contents of the pan.
  • Heat 1 tbsp of butter in a saucepan and then add the blended paste.
Add the paste to the saucepan
  • Add some hot water to the blending container and pour the contents into the saucepan. This clears any leftover paste in the container and also makes the soup slightly thinner and smoother.
Pour the remaining paste into the saucepan.
  • Add salt and pepper to taste and then you’re good to go.
add salt and pepper to taste

Serving suggestions: This dish is best served with a side of fresh bread and topped with croutons.

Broccoli Soup served with fresh bread

If you would like more visual assistance or details on how to make the soup, please feel free to watch the video below.

How to make Scrumptious Broccoli Soup
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