Cream of Broccoli Soup

Hey guys, I'm Justin from Cooking with Coit. I specialize in clean comfort cooking and today I'm going to show you how to make this super delicious cream of broccoli soup and if you like this video make sure you hit those like and subscribe buttons. Let's get started. There are just a few soups that I would eat year-round regardless of whether it's hot outside or cold outside and this cream of broccoli soup is definitely one that I'll eat any time of year. Number one, it is incredibly fast to make. It only takes about 10 minutes of simmer time and number two, this soup is so healthy. We're putting a ton of broccoli in it and broccoli, as you know, is incredibly healthy. One great time saver is that I make a big batch of this soup and then I pop it in the freezer and so whenever I'm struggling for a quick weeknight dinner, I just take it out, heat it up and it's super delicious and really fast. First thing we're going to do is cut our broccoli. We're going to cut these broccoli heads into eight cups of florets. Now we're going to set this broccoli aside into a bowl and we're going to cut our onion. Now we're going to mince three cloves of garlic. So now we're going to sauté our onions. We're first going to start with two tablespoons of butter. We've cut four tablespoons total, we're going to reserve two of these tablespoons and now we're going to add all of our onion. We're going to sauté this onion in the butter just for a few minutes or until it's soft. With our onion softened, now we're going to add our garlic. We're just going to sauté this garlic with the onions for just about a minute. Now we're going to add our broccoli and chicken broth into this pot and for the chicken broth we're going to use four cups. I'm going to push the broccoli down just so it gets submerged as much as possible. We're going to bring this to a boil and then we're going to pop the top on and let it simmer for about 10 minutes. All right, it's been 10 minutes. Let's take a look and see how we're doing. All right, yes, it is looking really good and come on, get a shot of this. What we're looking for is just that the broccoli is really softened. That's exactly what we needed. Now we're going to grab our immersion blender and if you don't have an immersion blender you could just use a regular blender. Just pour it in and blend it up but I have an immersion blender so I'm going to use this and I'm just going to blend it until it's smooth pretty much. Just get rid of all the chunky bits. All right, this soup is already looking really nice and thick but we're going to go a little bit further and we're going to add our cream. Of course, it wouldn't be called cream of broccoli soup if we didn't add our cream. So let's set this pot aside while we work on our cream thickener. Next, we're going to take two tablespoons of our reserve butter, drop it into this pot, then we're going to add three quarters of a cup of heavy cream. Oops, forgot to open it. And there's our cream and then we're also going to add three tablespoons of flour and let's give it a little whisk. We just want to let this cook a little bit until it thickens up. All right, now we're going to combine our cream with our broccoli soup. We're going to give this a little stir to combine and look at how beautiful these colors are and come get a shot of this. Look at that. Looks so good. All right, now all that's left to do is just a salt and pepper to taste. So I'm going to do three big pinches of salt and of course how much you put in is completely up to you. I think that was four. I like four. Three pinches of pepper. I don't like as much pepper. There's one more and look at how good this looks. I do think pepper is actually a very important ingredient in this broccoli soup. I do like it a little peppery. Okay, this is looking so good. I cannot wait to give this a try but before I do, if you love this recipe and you want to see more just like it, check out my healthy recipes playlist. Okay, let's give this a try. This soup is looking so good. The texture is just perfect. Let's see how it tastes. Oh, this cream of broccoli soup is so fantastic. I love how creamy it is. It's got such great texture and really we put all that broccoli in there so you know it's healthy. I hope you guys have loved this recipe. I'll see in the next video.