Simple Way to Prepare Homemade Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, broccoli cheddar soup. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Broccoli Cheddar Soup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Broccoli Cheddar Soup is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

My husband loves Panera® broccoli cheddar soup but it went up in price and therefore we set out on a hunt to create the perfect broccoli cheddar soup. Here is what we came up with. Healthy broccoli cheddar soup packed with carrots, broccoli, garlic, and cheese. Broccoli Cheddar Soup is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a soup of pureed broccoli and broth with cheese.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook broccoli cheddar soup using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Broccoli Cheddar Soup:

1. Prepare 6 Tablespoons Butter (2 tbls/ 4 tbls)
2. Prepare 1 medium sweet yellow Onion diced
3. Make ready 1 clove Garlic minced
4. Take 1/3 Cup Flour
5. Make ready 2 Cups Chicken Stock/broth
6. Make ready 4 Cups Half n Half
7. Take 6 Cups chopped Broccoli
8. Get 2 large Carrots peeled and sliced thin (1/16 inch slices)
9. Make ready 3/4 teaspoon salt
10. Get 3/4 teaspoon pepper
11. Prepare 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
12. Prepare 16 oz. medium sharp Cheddar Cheese grated
13. Take Saute onion in

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Steps to make Broccoli Cheddar Soup:

1. Saute onions in 2 tablespoons of butter until onions is caramelized and looks translucent.
2. Add minced garlic to onions and saute 1 minute max while stirring constantly. Remove from heat and set aside.
3. In a large soup pot with weighted bottom (if possible so soup doesn't stick) add the other 4 tablespoons of butter, flour, and cook on medium heat for approx. 5 minutes while whisking constantly with wire whip until mixture is thickened. This is an important step. If this mixture doesn't thinking properly, soup will not thicken later in the process.
4. Slowly add the chicken stock/broth while whisking constantly.
5. Slowly add Half n Half while whisking constantly. Simmer on low temp for about 20 minutes.
6. Then add broccolli, carrots, and the onions and garlic mixture you set aside earlier. Also add salt, pepper, and cayenne. Simmer for another 20-25 minutes. By this time, soup should have thickened some. Whisk often to break up skim that forms on top of soup.
7. Go ahead and stir in most, but not all of the cheese saving some for garnish. Give cheese a chance to melt. (About 1 minute DO NOT use pre-grated cheese! The flavor is just not there and that's crucial to this soup.
8. At this point, go ahead and serve soup into individual bowls and add a little cheese to the top of each bowl. If you have kids, add a few goldfish crackers to peak their interest.
9. Leftover soup can be kept in air tight containers for 1 week only! Warm in microwave. Enjoy!

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