Broccoli Cheddar Soup

[Music] hi guys and larvae tally on this episode of learning in kitchen I want to share with you my recipe for broccoli cheddar soup which is so easy and simple but so delicious very addictive and I wanted to share it with you because it's just a classic everyone loves it so I figured we are in this back middle of super season because it is cold in New Jersey so I'm going to share with you had me today it's a very simple the base of the ingredients you'll need is broccoli florets onion garlic I've got a heavy cream and chicken stock flour butter salt pepper cheddar of course and and then you're also going to need a little bit of cream cheese right now listen if you want you you can leave out the flour and keep this a very low carb friendly but you know me go big or go home me know what I'm saying I would rather eat a small portion of like you know the flowery kind because that's just how I roll okay to this pot got some butter to that I'm going to add the broccoli the onion and the garlic and all I'm going to do is I'm going to cook all of this together for like 10 minutes I want to kind of cook the broccoli down and I know you what you're thinking why didn't you just caramelize the onions I just asked the garlic and the broccoli to the stock because I want to develop a little bit more flavor so I like to cook everything together for a bit until it develops some color and then I'll show you the next step this already looks really delicious and it smells so good and it's like look how beautiful the colors are developing and that's important so let me take time to develop those flavors a little bit of flour because you want this to be really thick this is not a thin the sort of watery soup this is a really super thick delicious and what's almost like a a sauce really a nice delicious um we're gonna make some brioche croutons to go on top because why not you know and now we're gonna add in the mixture of stock and cream it's heavy there we go and now all we're gonna do is cook these cook this together and simmer in until the broccoli is super tender the meantime I'm gonna go get my brioche and we are gonna make croutons all right and while the soup gets going we're gonna make the croutons I love love love these for pretty much any soup recipe they are my cheesy brioche croutons they sound fancy but they are divine brioche you can also get like challah bread it's the same thing it's a very sort of sweet eggy buttery bread and it's on the sweeter side so when you pair that with salty parmigiano and garlic and olive oil it just becomes like an incredible like boost of flavor that you cannot even imagine on the top of the soup it's divine so you don't have to do this by the way if you want to serve the soup as isn't like bread bowls that would be phenomenal but you know me I like a little extra so I've got my cubes here of challah bread this is a little bit stale so that's perfect chew it I'm going to add this is my I call this my house seasoning and in here I've got some salt free all-purpose seasoning you can find something like that you're like Costco you can do the Trader Joe's 21 to lube you know whatever you want I like a salt free because I like to add my own salt then in there I've also got parsley garlic onion paprika it's phenomenal today I'm gonna add my me general McDonald again that parmesan is really salty and nutty and delicious and paired with the sweet bread it's just to die for and you just need a little bit of olive oil a couple tablespoons maybe two or three tablespoons you know like good croutons but at my oven preheating to 400 I've got my baking sheet here lined with parchment paper and now you can see the olive oil is just sort of like allowing seasoning and the parm to really just stick to it and you just pop these babies on you might want to make extras because these are phenomenal and anything and pretty much everything from salads to soups fantastic into a hot oven until beautiful crispy golden brown and when that's done the soup will be ready and then we just finish it all that simple all right so my soup has been simmering for like 30 minutes if not even just a little longer and look you see the broccoli pieces a large broccoli pieces you should be able to squash them with a back of your wooden spoon or you can use an immersion blender I don't like to use an immersion blender because I don't want to like have this completely smooth that's why I just do it with a wooden spoon now I'm going to add some cream cheese I know it's delicious you know what I'm saying and we're going to add lots of freshly grated really good sharp cheddar please don't use the pre-shredded bad cheese for this it's just not the right cheese for it does not melt it the same way and you want the good stuff for this you know so I'm just gonna keep adding and melting my cheese my croutons came out in the oven and they look fantastic and then we serve that looks fantastic now listen this is not the kind of soup that's gonna win awards for being the most beautiful thing that you've ever seen it's just not but it sure isn't the most delicious soup that you'll ever eat I'm gonna just have a little serving for myself because well you know I went to do it want to have this at the dinner table tonight so I like to bury my croutons because then I soak up a little bit of that Filipa I'm a word that's better and better every time I make it I swear it's so easy so easy but mmm the sweet croutons complete complete heaven with the soup Laura in the kitchen Hong Kong will have the written recipe it is so something that you have to make today if you love broccoli cheddar soup because it is just that good I hope you enjoy spending time with me like I said laurainthekitchen.com has a recipe and I must see you [Music] you

Channel: Laura in the Kitchen

Views: 213,576

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Id: 52rz7HIn0P0

Length: 6min 56sec (416 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 29 2020