Vegan MoFo: Super Simple Broccoli Soup
October is Vegan Month of Food, aka “Vegan MoFo”. For the month, Vegan Soapbox will have posts about vegan food, everyday. That’s the hope, anyway. Today is some simple, vegan soup…
In one episode of Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares (or it might be the American version, Kitchen Nightmares), Gordon Ramsey is faced with a chef who likes to overcomplicate dishes. He challenges him to a taste test: both he and the chef will create a broccoli soup, using whatever ingredients they want (in addition to the broccoli). Others will then do blind taste tests and let them know which they prefer.
The chef created a cream of broccoli soup with something like fifteen ingredients (I’m not kidding). Gordon, on the other hand, used fresh broccoli, water, and salt. I think it was water but it may have been broth. Pretty sure it was water. You can guess it: Ramsey’s simple soup won the contest, hands down.
I decided to go for it myself. I used frozen broccoli (a no-no for Gordon, which I do understand, but this is all about convenience and in this case I do not think it sacrifices flavor) and a quart of vegetable stock from the shelf. I brought the broth to a boil, tossed in about a third of a bag of broccoli (the smaller bag), cooked until the broccoli was done, then put it all in the blender. I sprinkled some cajun seasoning on top. Pepper would have been good, too, or paprika. It really was delicious and so very easy to make.
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Crossposted at Vegan Convenient
Don’t sound apologetic about using frozen broccoli, it is usually fast frozen within 2/3 hours of harvesting and is probably fresher than anything you could buy in the shops, and the vitamins will still be there. The only way to get it fresher is to grow it yourself, harvest it from the garden, then cook it straight away. I bet Gordon doesn’t do that! Sounds delicious, I shall try it. Thanks!