How to Make A Delicious Broccoli and Stilton Cheese Soup

Broccoli and stilton cheese soup is an extreamly delicate yet rich soup that I truly love to make. Below please find my recipe on how to make a delicious broccoli and stilton cheese soup.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. 
   broccoli

   Ingredients for Broccoli and Stilton Cheese Soup:
   
   1 large onion, diced
   1 large or two medium leeks, finely sliced
   2 tablespoons of butter
   4 bunches of fresh broccoli heads, chopped up
   3 cups of chicken stock
   1 teaspoon of white pepper
   1 teaspoon of garlic powder
   1 ½ cups of evaporated milk
   4 oz Stilton, crumbled
   
   Ingredients for Roux:
   
   1/4 cup of butter
   1/4 cup of flour

2. 
   saute onion and leeks

   Place butter in a stockpot and add onion and leeks. Cook on medium heat until just tender but not browned.

3. Add the broccoli, garlic powder, white pepper and stock to the stockpot and cook at a low boil until the broccoli is just tender. Take off of heat and allow to cool.

4. 
   food processor

   Using a food processor, blend the broccoli mixture until it is fairly smooth, returning the soup mixture to the stockpot. Put the soup on a low heat.

5. 
   roux

   You will need to make a roux as a thickener for the soup. In a heavy 2-quart saucepan stir together flour and butter together until its smooth. Cook over medium-high heat for about 4 minutes, whisking constantly until the flour loses its raw smell and begins to develop a toasty aroma. Now remove the roux off the heat.

6. Slowly add about 1 or 2 cups of the soup to the roux mixture making certain to whisk constantly. Now add the roux/soup mixture to the soup in the stockpot and cook the soup on a low heat until the soup thickens. Make certain the soup does not burn by stirring the soup.

7. 
   stilton cheese

   Add the milk and the stilton cheese into the food processor and blend.

8. 
   broccoli & Stilton Cheese Soup

   After the soup has thickened add the milk and stilton cheese mixture, and pepper to the stockpot and continue cooking on a low heat for about 5 minutes. DO NOT BOIL and make certain you stir the soup so that it doesn’t scorch. Add salt to your taste, but no more then 1/2 a teaspoon. enjoy

Tips & Warnings

• If you do not have a food processor then a blender will do. It will just take a bit longer to blend the ingredients. Also, if you do not know what Stilton Cheese is. It is simply a blue cheese and can be found in all Markets,

[saucywriter]

on 9/26/2009 I LOVE stilton cheese, but would have never thought of putting it in soup. Thanks for the great recipe! 5*/rec

[saucywriter]

on 9/26/2009 I LOVE stilton cheese, but would have never thought of putting it in soup. Thanks for the great recipe! 5*/rec

[jswana]

on 8/24/2009 Give me broccoli,give me cheese and I'm satisfied. Only thing, I'm going to have to check out the Stilton Cheese. You get 5* for getting me hungry. Jswana

[nycgalinpa]

on 8/23/2009 Sounds very good. Thanks for sharing this. 5* Rec