Now that I’ve shared my broccoli love with you, make this soup. That’s it! Frozen veggies will cook up much faster than fresh so you can tuck into this gorgeous soup sooner rather than later! Reduce heat until the stock simmers the broccoli fork-tender. Bring it to a boil then add your frozen broccoli. Don’t add the frozen broccoli (don’t bother thawing it) until after you’ve added the chicken stock and brought it to a boil. Here’s the one change you’ll need to make if you’re using frozen broccoli. Yes, you can use frozen broccoli (or other veggies)! Fresh is best (IMO) but frozen is a close second. It’s usually less expensive to buy the head and cut it yourself but if you’re short on time or knife skills, grab a bag of pre-cut or frozen florets. I like to use fresh broccoli florets, either cut from a head of broccoli or the pre-cut bagged version. Too much heat and the fat in your dairy will separate, leaving a weird, unappetizing oily ring on the surface of your soup. Simmer your soup once you’ve added your cream or half-and-half but DON’T let it boil. Cream will give you a more velvety soup (obviously) but half-and-half is just as tasty and not quite so fatty if you’re worried about calories and such. The “creamy” comes from the addition of either heavy cream or half-and-half. Add a few minutes to your cooking time - cauliflower and carrots will take a bit longer to cook - and you can simmer up a batch of any creamy veggie soup in minutes! If you’re a soup fiend like I am feel free to swap out the broccoli for cauliflower, or carrots. (You can get my step-by-step for making puréed soups here.) Get it back on the stove and stir in the cream. Simmer the broccoli in chicken stock until it’s cooked through and fork tender. We go together, as in walking down high school halls with hands in each other’s back pockets go together. This Creamy Broccoli Soup with Mushrooms sealed the deal for me and broccoli. I can say this with certainty now but for years I wasn’t sure if I loved broccoli or if I loved it because almost every time I ate it there was CHEESE (my first true love, but please don’t tell broccoli). And I love to soup it – Broccoli Cheddar Potato Soup. I love it in a salad – Kale & Broccoli Salad. I love to roast it – Roasted Broccoli with Garlic & Parm.
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