How to cook a delicious broccoli soup with cream

If you want to diversify your diet and make something new for dinner, the broccoli soup with a photo you see in the article will be an excellent choice for you. This vegetable, but because a low-calorie dish is not cooked for long - the whole process you will take no more than 40 minutes. It will be a good start for the main meal - lunch. Thanks to its creamy structure, the dish is perfect for feeding very young children.

Cooking broccoli soup with cream

For several portions of the dish you will need:

• 500 g of broccoli cabbage ;
• 1 onion bulb and 1 head of garlic;
• 4 large carrots;
• 2 cups of cream 10% fat or milk, if you want to cook a diet soup of broccoli;
• 30 g of butter;
• 3 tbsp. L. Wheat flour;
• Soy sauce and salt to taste, if desired, you can use chicken broth cubes.

Finely chop the onions, chop the garlic and grate all the carrots on a large grater. Then, in a frying pan, melt the butter and simmer the vegetables for 5 minutes, not forgetting to stir them in the process.

In a saucepan pour a liter of water, salt or add 1-2 broth cubes and bring the liquid to a boil. After that, place the vegetable fry and broccoli in it (leave a couple of pieces - they will be needed later). Cook all over medium heat for 15-20 minutes or until the moment when the cabbage becomes slightly soft. Now the vegetables need to be mashed - in portions, place the contents of the pan in a blender and bring it to a homogeneous state. When everything is shredded, pour the resulting mass back into the pan and add milk (or cream) to it, as well as the remaining cabbage.

To cream soup with broccoli with cream turned thick, dissolve in a quarter of a glass of cold water 3 tbsp. L. Flour, stir well - there should not be lumps. After put the pot on the stove, bring to a boil and gently, in batches, pour the mixture of water and flour. Bring the soup to your desired density. In the last stage of preparation pour in broccoli soup with cream a little soy sauce, sprinkle with black pepper and finely chopped parsley. Ready to serve.

The dish can be decorated with circles or curls of carrots, greens or sprinkled with croutons. You and your family will love this light and delicious first for lunch. By the way, to make it a little more nutritious, instead of vegetable use chicken or beef broth. Then, in each serving, you can add pieces of boiled chicken or meat.

As for the above recipe, this broccoli cream soup with cream contains 80 kcal per 100 g, which is quite a bit. However, with this energy value, the fat content is about 4 g, consider this when preparing the dish. That is, if you want to reduce its caloric content, then instead of cream, use skim milk. Also, vegetables can not be roasted, but cook together with cabbage. The taste of this will not be worse, but the calorie content will decrease. Using these tips, you can enjoy a delicious soup, even if you observe the strictest diet.