Easy Vegan Broccoli Soup

Move over pumpkin soup, here comes easy vegan broccoli soup that's silky smooth. With only four ingredients, quick cook time and loads of flavour, broccoli soup is here to stay.

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• How to Make Vegan Broccoli Soup
• Vegan Broccoli Soup Recipe Tips
• Why use a blender for making broccoli soup?
• What to Serve with Broccoli Soup?
• Can I freeze Broccoli Soup?
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I was perusing the contents of my fridge and saw I had quite a bit of broccoli and I had an idea to create a creamy broccoli soup - something I had yet to make (not sure why?). The results were a unanimous yes from my family - they all loved it! Boom! I just made an easy vegan broccoli soup recipe that is now here to stay in my go-to soups book. Here's how you can make it;

How to Make Vegan Broccoli Soup

1. Peel and roughly chop potato into small pieces, set aside. You want the potatoes small to dramatically reduce the boil time
2. Cut broccoli into small florets and pieces, set aside
3. In a tall pot, over high heat, bring water, plant based spread and vegetable stock to a boil
4. Add potatoes and cook until par-boiled. About 5 minutes
5. Add broccoli and boil for another 5 minutes until both potato and broccoli are cooked
6. Take out about 50% of the water and set aside, you may want to add some back in
7. Pour contents (broccoli, potato and water) into a blender and blend until completely smooth. If your soup is too thick, ladle little amounts at a time back into the blended soup until you achieve the desired consistency
8. Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and garnish with fried shallot

Vegan Broccoli Soup Recipe Tips

• Cover the broccoli and potatoes with just enough water when boiling
• Take out about half the content of water for blending, you can always add the water back into the broccoli soup if it's too thick
• Keep the lid on the pot at all times to ensure rapid boil
• Don't over boil the broccoli, this will result in a dull green coloured soup
• Serve garnished with fried shallots or croutons and drizzle with olive oil (the olive oil makes the broccoli soup look silkier)
• Some members of my family enjoyed the soup with home-made chilli oil

Why use a blender for making broccoli soup?

I tried the hand held mixer and it resulted in a grainy soup due to the broccoli florets having small buds on the heads which didn't blend well. It wasn't the result I was after. The blender however, blended the content so well, it resulted in a very smooth silky finish. Making it easy to slurp the soup. Aesthetically, it was appealing.

What to Serve with Broccoli Soup?

• Crusty bread - your choice. Try my vegan dinner rolls recipe
• Vegan cheese mixed through it
• Garlic bread (my family did this and loved it)
• Freshly roasted artichoke petals - I dunked these into the soup rather than bread. Try my roasted artichoke recipe

Can I freeze Broccoli Soup?

Hell yeah! Allow the soup to fully cool down and then store it in a snap lock bag in the freezer for up to three months. Portion it into serving sizes, as you don't want to thaw out more than you need.

For more soup recipes

• The best Vegan Cauliflower Soup Recipe - so so creamy
• Another green one; Vegan Asparagus Soup Recipe, full flavoured
• A stunner of a soup, Lebanese Lentil Soup (Shorbet Adas) - the other in my top two
• Pumpkin Soup Recipe Vegan - one of my top two favourites

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