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Most of my posts on here are recipe specific and don’t expose much personal information about myself or my day to day thoughts and occurrences. Some may prefer that, whereas some may find it too mundane. I personally want to share that I never consider myself a writer and I continuously find my self at a loss for words, but as I contribute more and more to this blog I am realizing the importance of exposing yourself a little bit.
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It’s amazing what flavour a good quality hard cheese can bring to a dish. This broccoli soup is enhanced by adding some shavings of aged, hard goat cheese. Instead of making your broccoli soup with cream and other fattening ingredients, opt to make a lighter version and add shavings of cheese after. This actually allows you to fully taste the delicious pungency of the cheese.
Ingredients
- 3 cups broccoli, washed and chopped keeping mostly the florets
- 1 teaspoon onion powder
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 teaspoon dried thyme
- pinch of cayenne pepper
- 2-3 tablespoons butter (can be omitted for a lighter soup)
- hard goat cheese (or cheese of choice)
- handful of pecans
- 4-5 cups water
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1/2 french baguette, sliced
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- pinch of oregano
- pinch of garlic powder
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Boil broccoli until tender in salted water. Do not discard water.
- Add broccoli to a blender that can withstand heat. Add salted water to blender until the broccoli is only half-way covered in water. Add the rest of ingredients.
- Blend on low-medium speed until smooth.
- Serve with shavings of cheese, pecans and homemade croutons.
- Preheat oven to 400 °C.
- Coat baguette slices with olive oil, oregano, garlic powder, salt and pepper and toast in the oven until bread starts to golden (about 5 minutes). Serve overtop of soup.
Notes
* Be sure to not pour all of the water into the blender, as the soup will come out too watery. As stated above, make sure to only add enough water to the blender to just cover broccoli half-way, with the other half of broccoli not submerged in water.
