Cream of Broccoli

(I put up 2 vegetarian recipes this week because Ash Wed and Friday)

This is such a yummy and hearty main dish.
xoxo
Annie Vitz

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From: Cecilia Royals <royalsrecipes@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:29 AM
Subject: Cream of Broccoli
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Cream of Broccoli

Quantity	Ingredients	Calories per unit	Total calories	Nutrients
1 & 1/2 lbs. Or 5 cups raw	Fresh broccoli florets	1 cup raw = 25cals	125	calcium, folate and much more
One stick 8 tablespoons.	Butter	1tbspn = 100 c	800	vitamin A, lecithin and more
3-6 cloves 3-9 mg	Fresh garlic chopped	1 clove, 3mg = 4cals	12-24cals	manganese, B6 and much more
8-10 cups	2% milk	1 cup = 130cals	1300	Phosphosurs + +
½ cup	Whole Wheat Flour	¼ cup = 100cal	200cals	triptophan, fiber, magnesium + +
1 cup	Parmesan Cheese	1 tbsp = 30ca	480cals
2	Eggs large	1 egg = 70cals	140
10 (1 ½ cups)	Cream of Broccoli	306	3065
	Serve with fresh oranges	1 navel = 61	367 per portion	612 for 2 for men

Procedure:

1. Steam broccoli for about 8 minutes, until just bright green in color. Do not overcook.
2. Melt butter until golden and no longer foaming. Take from heat and add chopped garlic, stir until garlic is cooked. Add flour
3. Add steamed broccoli to the skillet. Salt the broccoli. Cook over medium low heat, stirring frequently with a wooden spoon, for another 5-10 minutes until the broccoli becomes very soft.
4. Mash the broccoli right in the skillet until no pieces remaining that are too big to fit in a soup spoon. . Use a potato masher or a strong wooden spoon.
5. Add 8 cups of milk to broccoli mixture in the saucepan. Add the white pepper. Stir contents of saucepan constantly with wooden spoon until thick and just at the simmering point. Lower the cooking heat.
6. Add the 2 eggs beaten to one cup of milk and when the soup becomes hot enough to just simmer take off the heat and add egg and milk mixture. Do not boil.
7. Add Cheese. Adjust thickness by adding a little milk (one cup or more) to thin it according to taste. Keep warm but do not simmer, stirring to allow the cheese to melt and mix.

This vegetarian vegetable chowder is a wonderful source of calcium and may be served during days of abstinence as the only course in the evening meal. Serve it hot, with sweet navel oranges as a side dish. The fresh orange juice will enhance the assimilation of the calcium. For women serve one portion and one orange for a total of 367 calories. Men may have two helpings for 612 calories. Hot French bread and butter may be a good accompaniment for this meal. I modified it from a web recipe of 1986 and the age of the dawning of the www.

This recipe may be doubled, halved or whatever without any problem. Vary the amount of milk added the second time to change the soup thickness to your own tastes. You also may use any fresh green vegetable as a substitute for the broccoli. Asparagus tips, artichoke hearts, and corn are especially nice. Cook them in the same way as you did the broccoli. Use any leftover butter on the hard French rolls.