Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup Recipe
Happy Tuesday everyone!! It's been a long week but I am so happy I am back to putting my recipes up. So today, I would like to do a spin on my famous cream of broccoli soup. I like making it for Thanksgiving, but it can be made at any time. So there are some things we will need to alter. So, for some odd reason, some recipes like to use chicken broth for their cream of broccoli soup. I have never used it for any reason in a cream of whatever soup I have made. Instead of butter, I used olive oil, and instead of heavy cream, I just use soy milk. I can't really taste much of a difference from this recipe compared to the original. Also, some will just throw the broccoli in with everything else and sometimes the cream of broccoli soup turns kind of brownish or a really gross green color. What I usually do is I blanch my broccoli first (put it in boiling water for 15-30 seconds) and then I instantly shock it (throwing it in an ice bath) to halt the cooking process. In this sense,...