Healthy-nutrient dairy-free Broccoli soup is an amazing addition to your winter meals. Quite tasty, cozy, green broccoli soup seems the perfect plan to control your diet or just to enjoy some healthy food. Easy to make in the instant pot, crackpot, or on the stove with less time taken, and without doing much surely give you relief and pleasure.
Winters are the super crazy season for food lovers, as lots of vegetables and colorful ingredients make your meal more energetic and auspicious. This healthy Broccoli soup recipe is a must-make! Its gluten-free and easily made dairy-free soup is super yummicious to indulge in.
This broccoli soup is one go of those recipes that feel indulgent and digestible, while being made with great greenish ingredients.
What Make This Broccoli Soup More Healthy?
Many different soups contain lots of heavy creams, gluten products, and dairy items which make them too heavy to indulge in.
Healthy Broccoli Soup Needs No Extra Ingredients
This broccoli soup needs nothing to make it special, as broccoli, broth, and other home-based ingredients seem enough to explore this soup. This amazing soup has only some milk, flour, broth, loaded veggies, And simple spices like ground pepper and salt which make it more enjoyable.
Substitution For Healthy Broccoli Soup Recipe:
We can make this healthy broccoli soup in many ways like other soups to let its taste remain the same as it is. Check them out below for suggestions!
If you have any suggestions to make it more enjoyable, feel free to let me know in the comment section;
Butter: you can simply skip the butter and use any olive oil, coconut oil, or avocado oil. The taste would remain same and get perfect fragrance as well.
Broth: I prefer to use chicken broth, if you are a vegetarian, simply skip chicken broth and use vegetable broth to make this soup.
Loaded Veggies: Feel free to use any more vegetables according to your taste and desire like adding carrots, potatoes can also give this soup a perfect texture and taste.
Dairy-Free: Simply use any milk either coconut milk, almond milk or other to make it up. I prefer dairy free cheese for garnish the soup. You can substitute in any non-dairy milk item.
Cheese Usage: I personally prefer cheddar cheese for garnish the soup. If you don’t have any, use cheddar, mozzarella, fontina or any one.
Can This Healthy Broccoli Soup Be Stored?
This soup will go perfect for next 4-5 days in the refrigerator. Or keep in a air tight container to Store in freezer for more then 1 month. Make sure to take out a night before its use and when its get melt completely, simply microwave in a bowl and serve hot.
Healthy Broccoli Soup Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 tbsp Unsalted Butter
- 2 tbsp Olive Oil (extra-virgin)
- 2 Onion (medium size, chopped)
- 2 Garlic Cloves (chopped)
- 1 Stalk Celery (chopped)
- 3 cups Chicken/vegetablebroth
- 8 cups Broccoli (stems, floret & chopped)
- 1 cup Water
- 1 tbsp Fresh Thyme/Parsley
- 2 cups Milk 2 cups
- 3 tbsp All-Purpose Flour
- Freshly Ground Pepper (to taste)
- Salt (as required)
Garnish(optional)
- Scallion
- Bacon
- Cheese
Instructions
- Take a medium size pan, heat olive oil. Add chopped garlic cloves, onion, celery, and cook, stir occasionally for about4-5 minutes until get softened. Now add thyme/parsley, cook, stirring until fragrant come out for at least 15 seconds.
- Stir in broccoli, add water and broth(chicken/vegetable), and broccoli. Now bring to a lively simmer over high to medium heat. Now carefully reduce heat to maintain the texture of the lively simmer and let it cook until very tender for about 10 more minutes.
- Get a blender to pour the soup in it, and start blending until getting a smooth texture.
- In a small saucepan, over medium to low heat melt 3 tbsp butter, stir in all-purpose flour, and gradually add milk. Stir until thick and bubbly texture comes out. Now add the mixture into the blended soup.
- Now add salt and ground pepper in it.
- Now Garnish with cheese, bacon, and scallion and serve it hot (optional).