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Most Pinned on Pinterest Panera Broccoli Cheese Soup – if you love Panera’s broccoli soup you will love this Copycat Panera Broccoli Soup Recipe! You can have the great taste of Panera in your own home in about 35 minutes!
It is simple enough that you will be making it all the time! This broccoli soup recipe is easy enough that your kids can help you, you can make it after work without too much effort.
The soup will blow you away with the flavor it brings to the table! My family loves it when I make this soup, most of the time we can’t get enough of it.
My fall time dinners are most always soup, so be prepared for an overload of soup recipes.
Here are some amazing Fall Soup Recipes:
Chicken Gnocchi Soup Recipe
Chicken Meatball Soup Recipe with Rice
Lately I have been craving Panera Bread Broccoli Soup every day and today I decided to make it and share my recipe with you!
In this recipe I will show you how to make Broccoli soup taste like Panera Breads recipe. You will not be disappointed!
Quick Note
So the most important part of the recipe in my opinion is the ingredients, and having fresh ingredients will take your dish to the next level! When choosing ingredients, I prefer organic and fresh ingredients but you can use what you prefer.
Each of these ingredients plays a very important flavor role in this recipe and you can feel free to add to it if you wish, but I love it just the way it is.
To makeBroccoli Cheese SoupYOU will need:
Butter
Onion
Flour
Half & Half
Chicken Broth(I love using homemade chicken broth)
Fresh Broccoli
Shredded Carrots
Shredded Sharp Cheddar Cheese
Salt and Pepper
Bread Bowl
Now for this soup I use fresh organic broccoli, I love this recipe because broccoli is packed full of Vitamin C, Magnesium, Folates, Vitamin A, Phosphorus and Potassium!
Broccoli is a great source of fiber and a natural anti-biotic, it also helps prevent cancer and cleanses your intestines. You cannot go wrong with broccoli!
The next fresh ingredient I use is onion, onions are a great source of vitamins and minerals. I use yellow onions for this recipe because yellow onion is known as the cooking onion they cook up beautifully and add the perfect flavor for soups. Onions are known to help lower the risks of cancer, and prevents heart disease.
Onions are super veggies in my book. Moving on to carrots, everybody knows that carrots are great for eyes but that’s not all they are good for!
Carrots are both anti-bacterial and anti-viral they boost kidney and liver function and they do wonders for your skin! I want to go eat some carrots right now! Let’s get to fun part of this recipe shall we.
How to Make Broccoli and Cheese Soup like Panera
1. Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a pot on medium heat. Add onion and saute until golden color, about 5 minutes, stirring few times.
2. Next, sprinkle 1/4 cup of flour and cook for 1 minute, whisking constantly.
3. Slowly add 2 cups of chicken broth whisking it with flour, then add 2 cups of half-and-half, whisk until everything is combined.4. Into the same pot add 1/2 lb of broccoli (about 3 cups), 1 cup of grated carrots and season with salt and pepper to taste.
5. Bring soup to a boil, turn the heat to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring few times.
6. Add a little sprinkle of nutmeg and 2 cups of sharp cheddar cheese. Remove from the heat and stir the cheese into the broccoli soup.
Pour Copycat Panera Bread Broccoli Cheese Soup into a bread bowl. Garnish with more cheese and a sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper. Grab a spoon and enjoy!
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Panera Broccoli Cheese Soup Recipe
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This Panera Broccoli Cheese Soup Recipe is the most pinned on Pinterest. Panera Bread’s famous Broccoli Cheese Soup is full of creamy and cheesy goodness.
Melt 1/4 cup of butter in a pot on medium heat. Add onion and saute until golden color, about 5 minutes, stirring few times.
Next, sprinkle 1/4 cup of flour and cook for 1 minute, whisking constantly.
Slowly add 2 cups of chicken broth whisking it with flour, then add 2 cups of half-and-half, whisk until everything is combined.
Into the same pot add 1/2 lb of broccoli (about 3 cups), 1 cup of grated carrots and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Bring soup to a boil, turn the heat to low heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring few times.
Add a little sprinkle of nutmeg and 2 cups of sharp cheddar cheese. Remove from the heat and stir the cheese into the broccoli soup.
PourSoupinto a bread bowl. Garnish with more cheese and a sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper. Grab a soup and enjoy!
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Notes
If YOU like meat in your soups add crispy bacon pieces over the top or cooked chopped chicken or sausages. Soup tastes incredible on its own or with meat.
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The Unhealthiest Panera Soup: Broccoli Cheddar Soup
Besides its 11 grams of saturated fat, this soup is suffused with sodium. In a 1-cup serving, expect 46% of the daily recommended limit of 2,300 milligrams. "Diets high in sodium can lead to high blood pressure," says Michelle Rauch, MS, RDN.
Pre-shredded cheese is often coated in anti-caking agents that can prevent the cheese from melting into a lusciously creamy soup. To ensure that your broccoli cheddar soup has the best smooth and creamy texture, buy a block of cheese and grate it yourself.
It may taste homemade, but that Panera soup wasn't actually prepared by the workers at your local shop. "The soups are made at a factory/plant/etc., flash-frozen, shipped to us, and we thaw it out in what's called a thermalizer, essentially a soup-thawer," says one former employee.
The unhealthiest lunch order at Panera is…the new Bacon Mac and Cheese Bread Bowl. At Panera, you can order any of the soups or mac and cheese in a bread bowl, which is a bowl made entirely of Panera's Artisinal Sourdough Bread.
When it's time to add the cheese into the soup, sprinkle it in in batches, stirring until each batch is melted before adding the next batch vs dumping it all in at once. This will ensure there are no clumps in the final soup.
Sometimes soup just needs to simmer longer to reach the perfect consistency. Check to see if the vegetables are tender, and then taste the broth. If the soup tastes a bit watery, give it more time.
If your Broccoli Soup tastes bland, there are several potential reasons. Here are some common culprits and suggestions to enhance the flavour: Insufficient seasoning. Solution: Taste the soup and adjust the salt and pepper accordingly.
Mild cheddar, Colby, Monterey jack, mozzarella, Swiss and queso blanco can all work well. “The best cheeses to melt into soups are cheeses that are higher in moisture and have a lower melting point,” says Bauer. In addition to cheddar and Monterey jack, he recommends Fontina and Gruyère.
Not much you can do to fix other than thicken it with a small starch slurry maybe. Also, if they used pre-shredded cheese that cellulose tend to leave it grainy. But totally agree with fixing a boiled dairy based soup with a slurry.
A rolling boil will sap cheese of its moisture content far too quickly and prevent it from the slow melting that is needed to marry the cheese and the soup.
One major complaint people have about the soup is that it is not vegetarian because it is made with chicken stock. I've called for vegetable broth here, although you could certainly use chicken stock if the vegetarian factor isn't a priority for you.
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