If you want to diversify your diet and cook something new for dinner, then broccoli soup puree, the photo of which you see in the article, will be a great choice for you. This is a vegetable, and therefore a fairly low-calorie dish is not cooked for long - the whole process will take you no more than 40 minutes. It will be a good start for the main meal - lunch. Due to its creamy structure, the dish is perfect for feeding very young children.
Cooking cream broccoli soup with cream
For several servings of the dish you will need:
- 500 g broccoli cabbage ;
- 1 onion and 1 head of garlic;
- 4 large carrots;
- 2 cups cream of 10% fat or milk, if you want to make diet broccoli puree soup ;
- 30 g butter;
- 3 tbsp. l wheat flour;
- soy sauce and salt to taste, if desired, you can use chicken stock cubes.
Chop the onions finely, chop the garlic and grate all the carrots on a coarse grater. Then melt the butter in a pan and simmer the vegetables for 5 minutes, not forgetting to stir them during the process.
Pour a liter of water into the pan, salt or add 1-2 broth cubes and bring the liquid to a boil. After that, place in it a vegetable fry and broccoli inflorescences (leave a couple of pieces - they will be needed later). Cook everything over medium heat for 15-20 minutes or until the cabbage becomes a little soft. Now the vegetables need to be mashed - in portions, place the contents of the pan in a blender and bring to a homogeneous state. When everything is chopped, pour the resulting mass back into the pan and add milk (or cream) to it, as well as the remaining cabbage.
To make broccoli cream soup with cream thick, dissolve 3 tbsp in a quarter cup of cold water. l flour, stir well - there should be no lumps. After putting the pan on the stove, bring to a boil and carefully, in portions, pour the mixture of water and flour. Bring the soup to the density you need. In the last stage of cooking, pour a little soy sauce in broccoli cream soup with cream, sprinkle with black pepper and finely chopped parsley. Ready to serve.
The dish can be decorated with circles or curls of carrots, herbs or sprinkled with crackers. You and your family will surely enjoy this light and tasty first for lunch. By the way, to make it a little more satisfying, instead of vegetable use chicken or beef broth. Then, in each serving, when 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 such an energy value, the fat content is about 4 g, consider this when cooking. That is, if you want to reduce its calorie content, then use skim milk instead of cream . Also, vegetables can not be fried, but boiled with cabbage. The taste of this will not be worse, and calorie content will decrease. Using these tips, you can enjoy a delicious soup, even if you follow the most strict diet.