Broccoli & Blue Cheese Soup

Recipe by: Fonterra

Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 350g broccoli (florets and stalks cut into small pieces)
  
• 400ml vegetable stock
• 25g butter
• 4 spring onions (finely sliced)
• 50g blue cheese (crumbled)
• 100ml fresh cream
• Salt & freshly ground pepper
• Pinch nutmeg (freshly grated)
• 4 slices french bread
• 100g blue cheese (sliced)

Method

1. Place the pieces of broccoli into a pot. Pour over the vegetable stock. Cook until tender.
2. Meanwhile, heat a frying pan until hot then add the butter. When it starts to foam, add the spring onions and cook for one minute.
3. Place the cooked broccoli and stock into a blender. Add the cooked spring onions, blue cheese and cream and blend until smooth.
4. Transfer into a pan and bring gently to a simmer.
5. Toast the french bread under a grill until just golden on each side.
6. Top with the slices of blue cheese and return to the grill until golden and bubbling.
7. Season the soup with salt, freshly ground black pepper and a pinch of nutmeg.
8. Divide the soup between four warm bowls and top each with a crouton. Serve.