How to cook broccoli cream soup, which is ideal for diet food.

Creamy soups and soups-mashed potatoes appeared in France, and for a long time were considered a dish of noble nobles. Preparation of cream soup requires knowledge, experience and subtle artistic taste. There are basic cooking rules, following which you can cook almost a masterpiece of culinary art.

Take, for example, cream soup from broccoli. When preparing it is necessary to remember that the classic French cream soup has a beautiful natural color of broccoli, which can be maintained by proper preparation. Many recipes suggest starting the preparation of broccoli cream soup with fried onion and broccoli in butter. The fact is that after this treatment, the natural color and taste of broccoli will be lost. The introduction of flour into the cream soup is quite possible, but it is often difficult to distribute it evenly in the soup. In this case, the best option is to stop using flour in the cream soup.

The use of milk or cream is more appropriate for vegetables, ideally combined with these products, for example, with potatoes.

It is completely undesirable to use meat broth for cooking cream soup for the same reason as the use of butter.

Cream soup from broccoli (recipe): Broccoli is taken from the calculation: 200-400gr. For one serving, carrots -50gr., Potatoes -50 gr., Onion white or green young ray - 50gr., Celery trunk - 20-30gr.

Salt, pepper - to taste. Leaves of basil and parsley.

Cut into small pieces of vegetables are filled with water, which only slightly covers the food. Water is better to use a purified or natural mineral without gas. This is very important, since the composition of such water allows preserving the natural taste of the products.

Vegetables cook on low heat after boiling for 15 minutes until soft. However, it is important to note that vegetables after cooking retain their original color and hardness.

1 minute before the preparation is added salt (to taste). Those who wish can add fine pepper. It is better to use white pepper peas, which is ground just before entering the soup. Also, a minute before the preparation is added 1-2 leaves of fresh basil and / or 2 leaves of parsley. Basil will be a more suitable combination for broccoli, but it is appropriate to use only parsley or parsley along with basil.

To fans of cream soup with a slight aroma of garlic, you can add a toothpick, grated on a fine grater for 1-2 minutes.

It is advisable after cooking to leave vegetables for 10-15 minutes in a saucepan. After that, the vegetables are separated from the broth and crushed in a blender. Next, the vegetable puree is combined with a small amount of broth and mixes evenly. Use the whole broth or only part of it depends on the preferences of each. Usually used whole vegetable broth. Boil again the vegetable broth with chopped vegetables should not be.

Served cream broccoli soup in deep bowls or in ordinary serving soup plates. On top of the cream soup is poured a thin trickle of olive oil, which forms a twisted spiral on the surface of the soup. Soup is decorated with 2 leaves of basil or parsley and is often served with croutons or croutons.

To cream soup of broccoli longer retain its natural taste, bowls or soup plates are recommended to be heated before serving in hot water.

Quite often instead of potatoes, when preparing soup, rice is used, which is cooked separately and after being thoroughly crushed in a blender. With this option, one tablespoon of rice is needed.

Both versions of cream soup (with potatoes or with rice) refer to vegetarian dishes, and can also be recommended for dietary nutrition.

A special taste is the broccoli soup with cheese, which is also prepared according to the above recipe. Cheese for cream soup is better to use fused natural without additives or soft sorts of cheese. Crushed cheese (50-100 grams.) Is combined with a small amount of broth and is blended to a creamy state. Then the rest of the broth and crushed vegetables are added.

The preparation of cream soup is a fascinating process, which certainly will please both adults and children! Served such a dish, as a rule, at lunch hours, although many people like to pamper themselves with such delights at dinner, during the evening meal.