Soup-Purée with Broccoli and Chicken
May 8th, 2010 in Hot Soups, Soups by Julia Volhina
Total cooking time: 1h 15min
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This bright green colored soup-purée (or cream soup) made of chicken, broccoli and some other vegies is probably the quickest to prepare soup I know.
It is also nutritious: loaded with healthy vegetables and white chicken meat, which are boiled, pureed and blended together for tasty creamy texture.
All that makes this soup very good choice not only for kids, but also for people who prefer soft food.
Ingredients:
- 2lbs of broccoli crowns
- 1lb of skinless boneless chicken breast
- 2-3 medium potatoes
- 1 carrot
- Piece of celery root (about ¼ of small root)
- 1 leek stem or 2 shallots
- 1 cup of heavy cream or smaller amount of sour cream
- Ground pepper to taste
- Salt pepper to taste
How to prepare, step-by-step:
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Prepare ingredients:
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Pour about 2.5 quarts of water into big cooking pot and bring to boil on a medium heat. Skin and dice celery and carrot, add to the cooking pot:
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Make sure water isn’t boiling too much (reduce heat if needed) and let vegetables to cook for 15 mins:
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Skin and dice potatoes, add to the cooking pot and boil for 5 mins:
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Wash chicken, slice into 2 inches big pieces, add to the pot, cooking for 15 mins:
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Clean and slice leek (or shallots), add to the cooking pot:
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Separate broccoli crowns into florets, rinse with cold water:
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Add broccoli to the cooking pot and cook until broccoli are soft, but don’t over cook or they will lose bright green color (took me about 10 mins over low boiling):
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Remove cooking pot from the burner; add salt and pepper to taste and puree soup with immersion hand blender:
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Stop pureeing when soup gets homogeneous, then move it back to the burner and reduce heat to low:
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Add a cup of heavy cream or smaller amount of sour cream:
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Mix soup and cream together and keep it on the burner until soup warms up till temperature you like (but don’t let it boil):
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Serve broccoli and chicken cream soup before main course for dinner; garnish it with chopped green parsley if you like:
Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken
HELLO,
I’M NEW AT THIS…BUT I’M A DIABETIC, I FOUND THIS RECIPE, AND I MADE IT FOR MY HUSBAND AND MYSELF, IT WAS FANTASTIC. AND MY HUSBAND JUST WENT CRAZY OVER IT. AND BELIEVE ME WE HAD ENOUGH LEFTOVERS THAT IT FEED US FOR A FEW DAYS. BUT ANYWAY, I HAVE A BROTHER IN A AK, AND I WAS TELLING HIM ABOUT THIS RECIPE AND HE WOULD LIKE TO TRY IT BUT I CAN’T SEND IT TO HIM OR TAKE A COPY OF IT, TO GET IT TO HIM, COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME HOW I CAN DO THIS PLEASE….I8 HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS SOUP TO A FEW PEOPLE AND I JUST LOVE IT, PLUS I’M ON SOFT FOODS FOR ABOUT TWO MONTHS AND I WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE OF THIS KIND OF DISHES. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
If people you want to share this recipe with have internet, the easiest way to share it would be to give them this address: https://www.enjoyyourcooking.com/soup-recipes/soup-puree-broccoli-chicken.html
You can also print it out, but it probably will be quite long with all the photos and such.
If u want to omit the celery root and the leek stem or shallot what can you use
You can use onion instead of leeks, I wouldn’t skip onion all together. Celery root can be skipped or replaced with parsley root or parsnip.
Thank you for this fantastic recipe! I’ve just made this soup looking at this pictures 🙂 Yammmm! 🙂
I am glad you like it 🙂
Thank you Julia, it is obvious that I have so much to learn….:)
No problem, everybody have something to learn at some point 🙂
This soup looks quite nutritious. I will make it today. The only question I have is: is 30 min enough for the chicken to be boiled? I am so used to live it boil for at least an hour…. Thanks again for this healthy recipe.
If you use fine sliced chicken breasts 30 mins is enough, for bigger pieces more time may be needed.
I like this one, really…