Steps to Make Super Quick Homemade Creamy Broccoli & Stilton Soup

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, creamy broccoli & stilton soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Creamy Broccoli & Stilton Soup is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Creamy Broccoli & Stilton Soup is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook creamy broccoli & stilton soup using 12 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Creamy Broccoli & Stilton Soup:

1. Prepare 1 head Broccoli, roughly chopped
2. Take 2 large Onions, chopped
3. Get 2 sticks Celery, in 1 cm slices
4. Make ready 3 cloves Garlic, chopped
5. Get 2 Potatoes, diced
6. Get 1 Leek, in 1 cm slices
7. Make ready 1 3/4 litres Ham stock. I used ham stock from a large gammon joint cooked the previous day but, if homemade stock isn’t available, good quality stock cubes work fine
8. Get Oil
9. Make ready Butter, preferably unsalted
10. Prepare Ground black pepper
11. Take Crème Fraîche
12. Get 200-250 g Stilton cheese

Steps to make Creamy Broccoli & Stilton Soup:

1. Heat the oil in a stockpot or very large saucepan. Add the onions and gently fry for two minutes, resisting the temptation to stir unless the onions appear to be sticking. If so, add a splash of water.
2. Add the garlic, stir and fry another minute.
3. Add the celery and leeks and a generous knob of butter. Stir to ensure all the veg are coated with a little oil/butter and continue to fry gently for another three minutes.
4. Add the potatoes and any well-chopped broccoli stalks, stir and then add the stock. Stir well and then add the rest of the broccoli. Cover and bring to the boil.
5. Reduce the heat, stir well and leave on a medium simmer for 25 minutes or until the vegetables are softened.
6. Stir, taste and season with pepper but not salt. Remove from heat.
7. In batches, whizz in a blender to a smooth consistency. Transfer to a saucepan and reheat.
8. Crumble the Stilton cheese into the hot soup and give it all a good stir until it has melted.
9. Serve piping hot with a small dollop of crème fraîche per individual bowl. Accompany with granary bread or crusty roll. Not too much soup or bread if the soup is just a starter as this soup is fairly filling.

So that is going to wrap this up for this exceptional food creamy broccoli & stilton soup recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m sure you will make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to bookmark this page in your browser, and share it to your loved ones, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!