Healthy Cream Of Spinach Soup Recipe Recipe Cards

SPINACH CREAM SOUP

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and saute until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute (the flour should not take on any color).
• Pour in stock, whisking to incorporate fully, and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for 10 minutes, whisking fairly often, to cook out raw flour taste and thicken the liquid (it should reach the consistency of heavy cream).
• Blanch spinach: Wash well and trim tough ends while bringing a large pot of water to a boil. Prepare an ice-water bath. Salt the boiling water generously and submerge all of the spinach. Blanch 30 seconds, just until wilted and bright green, then remove spinach with a spider or slotted spoon and immediately plunge into the ice-water bath to stop the cooking, stirring to cool more quickly. Squeeze spinach with your hands to remove excess liquid.
• Working in batches (do not fill more than halfway), add spinach and veloute base into a blender and puree until smooth. (Alternatively, puree soup in a food mill, using either fine or coarse disk, a food processor, or with an immersion blender.) Pass soup through a fine sieve into a clean pot, pressing on solids with a flexible spatula to extract as much liquid as possible.
• Set pot over low heat and whisk in cream, if using. (Thin with more stock or water, if necessary.) Cream soups are the best made just before serving, especially when using green vegetables, as the soup can lose some of its vibrant color. You can make the veloute base the day before; let cool completely then refrigerate in an airtight container.
• Heat oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add bread cubes and cook until crisp and golden brown.
• Serve soup garnished with croutons.

DELICIOUS CREAM OF SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• In 3qt pan, saute onion in butter until soft.
• Stir in flour; add salt, pepper, and nutmeg.
• Blend in the milk.
• Cook, stirring on med heat until bubbly.
• Keep stirring for 1 minute.
• Stir in the spinach.
• Cook 1 minute, remove from heat.
• Serve piping hot.

CREAM OF SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, combine water, bouillon, and spinach. Bring to a boil, and cook until spinach is tender.
• Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Stir in flour, and cook for 2 minutes. Gradually whisk in milk. Season with minced onion, salt, and pepper. Cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Stir in spinach mixture.

FRESH AND HEALTHY SPINACH SOUP

Steps:

• Gather the ingredients.
• In a large saucepan or Dutch oven, heat the oil. Sauté the potato, onion, celery, and garlic for 5 minutes.
• Add the chicken broth and fat-free milk. Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer on low for 10 minutes.
• Stir in half of the spinach, cover, and simmer for 10 more minutes.
• Cool slightly, then transfer the soup to a blender. Work in 2 batches if necessary to keep the hot soup from overflowing the blender as you blend. Alternatively, an immersion blender can be used to blend the soup in the pot. Add the remaining fresh spinach to the soup and blend until smooth.
• Taste for seasoning and serve.

HEALTHY CREAM OF SPINACH SOUP (NO CREAM!)

Steps:

• Remove the green leaves from the cauliflower, remove the stem and chop the florets coarsly.
• Wash the spinach well, dry in a towel or salad spinner and chop coarsely.
• In a stock pot, heat the oil over medium heat and add the garlic, cook for just 30 seconds.
• Add the cauliflower, broth and salt; bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the spinach and cook another 5 minutes, until the spinach is wilted and the cauliflower tender. Mix in the mustard and thyme.
• Using a hand-held immersion blender, puree the soup in the pot until smooth.
• Add pepper and additional salt to taste.

SPINACH VEGETABLE SOUP

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, saute onion and celery in butter until tender. Add the broth, potatoes, turnip, carrot, green pepper and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until vegetables are tender. , Stir in spinach and corn; cool slightly. Puree half of the soup in a blender; return to the pan and heat through.