June 10, 2009: Broccoli Soup Amongst Lemon-Chive Cream

this, from Orangette. It's all relatively uncomplicated - a chip of chopping, a chip of frying, a chip of simmering too an awesome few moments of devastation amongst the stick blender. Good times. Luckily, it's likewise damn tasty. Between the stalks of the broccoli too the faux-chicken stock, it had a variety of meatiness to it, commencement past times the delicious herbed sour-cream too the parmesan hints left past times the rind. H5N1 few pieces of breadstuff on the side too we'd establish the antidote to Melbourne's flare-up of winter.

Broccoli soup amongst lemon-chive cream

The soup
1 tbsp butter
2 leeks, washed too sliced (just the white parts)
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
1kg broccoli, chopped (include everything - stems too all)
1l faux-chicken of vegetable stock
1 parmesan rind
salt

The cream
1 loving cup sour cream
2 shallots (the long, light-green kind), sliced thinly
1/4 loving cup finely chopped chives
1 tsp lemon zest
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 loving cup grated Parmesan
salt
1/2 tsp powdered garlic

In a saucepan, melt the butter too and then add together the leeks too onion, cooking over medium rut for most 10 minutes. Everything should instruct overnice too transparent.

Add the garlic too stir through, cooking briefly, earlier throwing inward the stock, broccoli, parmesan rind too salt. Stir everything together, convey to the boil too and then simmer.

While things are simmering, brand the cream. Basically merely stir all the ingredients together too modification the amounts of salt/garlic/lemon juice to your tastes.

Once the soup has simmered for most 20 minutes, take the parmesan rind too assail the soup amongst your powerful stick blender (or instruct through the whole rigmarole of batches inward the nutrient processor).

Add most one-half of your sour-cream mix to the soup too stir it through, using the residuum of it equally a garnish to dollop on top.