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Broccoli and Stilton Soup

10th May 2014 - By Michelle Minnaar
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Broccoli. Blue cheese. Often these two foods invoke a passionate response from people – they either love them or hate them.

Broccoli and Stilton Soup with Walnut Cream

Depending on the number of taste receptacles you are born with, you might find broccoli incredible bitter to the taste. Others are immediately put off by the look and smell of blue cheese.

I, for one, think this is a heavenly combination. The earthy and salty tang of the blue cheese brings out the sweetness of the broccoli and mixed together in a soup it makes for a bowl of complex flavours.

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Broccoli and Blue Cheese Soup

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This soup is pretty easy to prepare. The walnut chantilly is optional but if you’re having guests over this elegant addition will bowl them off their feet. Arrange the walnut halves on an oven tray.

Raw Walnuts

Place them in a preheated oven of 190°C/375°F/gas mark 5. It will take between 5 and 10 minutes for them to toast.

Toasted Walnuts

Remove them from the oven to cool down a little bit and admire their wonderful golden hues. Your kitchen will be emanating amazing whirls of nutty smells.

Toasted Walnuts In Mortar

Since they’re toasted now, they will crumble easily if you use a pestle and mortar. Keep on going until you have the texture of sand.

Crushing Walnuts With Pestle

Suddenly these toasted ground walnut become s very versatile. Just imagine them sprinkled on a salad.

Crushed Walnuts

Next up, you need to whisk the double cream until soft peaks are formed.

Whisking Cream

Gently whisk the nuts into the whipped cream.

Add Walnuts To Cream

Right, the walnut chantilly is ready. Store it in the fridge and let’s get going with the actual soup.

Walnut Cream

Chop the broccoli roughly into florets.

Raw Broccoli Florets

Get some vegetable stock poiling in a pot.

Vegetable Stock

Boil the broccoli quickly, so that it maintains its vibrant green colour.

Raw Broccoli In A Pot

Once its tender, place the broccoli in a blender. Be careful because the liquid will be scalding hot. You don’t need to use all the stock.

My suggestion is to sieve the broccoli out and add a bit of stock and then puree the mixture. Keep on adding the excess stock until your desired consistency. In this case we used quite a lot of stock.

Blending Cooked Broccoli

In this case Colston Basset, a variety of Stilton, was used.

Crumbling Blue Cheese

Crumble some blue cheese and walnuts in the centres of bowls. This way you’re ensuring the walnut cream won’t sink to the bottom.

Blue Cheese Walnut Crumble

Spoon the soup carefully into the bowls.

Spooning Soup

Add a dollop of walnut chantilly on top, add a drizzle of olive oil on top and you’re done!

Stilton and Broccoli Soup

There’s not need to feel intimidated by this bowl of soup. If you feel the need to make it a bit more basic, there’s nothing stopping you from omitting the cream and walnuts altogether and adding a bit of cream to the broccoli soup at its blending stage.

Adding a few slices of blue cheese, depending on how strong you would like it. Crispy bacon lardons on top would be a great addition.

The broccoli soup itself will remain edible if stored in the fridge for up to 3 days or 3 months in the freezer. However, as we all know fresh is always best.

Stilton and Broccoli Soup

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Stilton Soup Broccoli

Broccoli and Stilton Soup


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  • Author: Michelle Minnaar
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 20 minutes
  • Total Time: 30 minutes
  • Yield: 4 servings 1x
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Ingredients

  • 2L vegetable stock
  • 2 large or 4 medium broccoli clusters
  • 45g (1½ oz) walnut halves
  • 200ml (½ pt) double cream
  • 30g (1 oz) blue cheese
  • 30ml (2 tbsp) olive oil

Instructions

  1. Bring the stock to a boil in a large pan. Add a large pinch of salt. Add broccoli and boil rapidly.
  2. Whilst cooking the broccoli, roast the walnuts in a hot oven until golden brown all over. Take out and cool, break the walnuts into small pieces. Crush half the walnut pieces in a pestle and mortar until a rough sand texture and reserve the other half. Fold the crushed walnuts into the whipped cream and season with salt and pepper. Cover and chill until serving.
  3. The broccoli is ready when you can pierce it with little or no effort. Remove the stock pan from the stove and reserve the stock. Use a slotted spoon to add broccoli to a blender but be careful because it’s boiling hot! Pour enough of the stock left over from cooking the broccoli to fill the blender halfway. Add a pinch or to taste of salt. Use several pulses on your blender to break the broccoli up and then puree for several seconds.
  4. Pour soup into shallow bowl Spoon a big dollop of walnut Chantilly into each bowl along with the remaining walnuts.
  5. Drizzle lightly with olive oil and serve at once.

Notes

  • The following types of blue cheese will work well in this recipe: stilton, roquefort, cambozola, cashel blue, danish blue cheese, dolcelatte and gorgonzola.
  • Category: Soup
  • Method: Boil
  • Cuisine: British

Nutrition

  • Calories: 407
  • Sugar: Sugars
  • Sodium: 908 mg
  • Fat: 39.1 g
  • Carbohydrates: 11 g
  • Fiber: Dietary Fiber
  • Protein: 6.7 g
  • Cholesterol: 8 mg

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  1. Jacqueline Meldrum says

    11th May 2014 at 11:04 am

    I love the combination of broccoli and blue cheese in a soup, but it is the walnut sprinkle and chantilly that I am really excited by. You are right, the toasted walnut sprinkle would be excellent in salads.

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  2. Jacqueline Meldrum says

    11th May 2014 at 11:04 am

    I love the combination of broccoli and blue cheese in a soup, but it is the walnut sprinkle and chantilly that I am really excited by. You are right, the toasted walnut sprinkle would be excellent in salads.

    Reply
  3. [email protected] says

    13th May 2014 at 12:51 pm

    As a maker of lots of soups this broccoli & Stilton soup is one I will always come back to. Even better if you are using Colston Bassett. Love the idea of a walnut chantilly to turn this into something extra special. Gorgeous photos too!

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  4. Renil M. George says

    9th September 2017 at 8:46 pm

    Love a soup with the combination of broccoli and blue cheese, thanks.

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