Fragrant delicious soup with broccoli and chicken can be safely attributed to healthy nutrition. It is worth adding to your menu for families with small children. If you cook this dish correctly, it will be allowed to eat even on a strict diet.

Classic broccoli and chicken soup

According to the classic recipe, a large number of vegetables are added to the first dish. For example, carrots. As a result, the treat looks bright, tasty, mouth-watering.

Ingredients:

  • chicken meat on the bone - 430 - 450 g;
  • potatoes - 2 tubers;
  • fresh or frozen broccoli - 150 - 180 g;
  • onion - 1 head;
  • sweet pepper and carrots - 1 pc.;
  • green onions - a bunch;
  • salt, olive oil and spices.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse chicken parts, pour cold water and send to cook. You can immediately add to them a lavrushka or other ingredients that improve the taste of the broth.
  2. After a quarter hour of cooking, pour the cubes of potatoes into the pan.
  3. After another 10 - 12 minutes add broccoli inflorescences. They need to be removed from the solid stem and trimmed as much as possible, leaving only the hard part.
  4. Fry finely chopped onions, sweet peppers and grated carrots in a frying pan. When the vegetables are soft, also move them to the soup.
  5. Salt to taste. Add spices.
  6. Cook another 8 to 10 minutes.

The last thing you need is to add chopped green onions to the pan and let the treats brew a little.

With cream cheese

It is very important to take delicious cream cheese for such a dish. It should be without any flavoring. It is best to use the simplest, creamiest. And necessarily, well soluble in boiling liquid.

Today on sale you can find special bars of this cheese for making mashed soups.

Ingredients:

  • water - 2.7 - 3 l;
  • soup set of chicken parts - half a kilo;
  • broccoli - 1 pc.;
  • carrots and onions - 1 pc.;
  • quality processed cheese - 80 - 100 g;
  • potatoes - 3 - 4 pcs. (depending on the size of the tubers);
  • cream - a full glass;
  • olive oil, pepper, salt, herbs.

Cooking:

  1. Rinse the soup set. Pour with fresh water. Send to cook for about 35 to 40 minutes.The emerging foam in the process must be immediately removed from the surface of the liquid with a slotted spoon. Otherwise, it will affect the transparency of the broth.
  2. Separately, chop vegetables very finely (except for broccoli). Send them to a pan with olive oil. Cook a delicious roast roast. Pieces of fresh garlic can also be added to it if desired. Then the mass will be even more fragrant.
  3. Cool the finished meat. Strain the broth. Remove pieces of chicken from the bones and return to the liquid.
  4. There also send potatoes, previously chopped into cubes, and broccoli, divided into "umbrellas."
  5. After 8 minutes, put the roast in a future soup.
  6. When all the vegetables have softened, add the cheese, cut into pieces.
  7. Warm the soup until the cheese is completely dissolved.
  8. Pour in the cream. Add greens, salt and pepper.
  9. Warm up the dish for another 6 - 7 minutes. Turn off and let it brew a little.

According to the same recipe, you can make soup puree with broccoli and chicken. To do this, before adding cream, you need to thoroughly beat the mass with a submersible blender until smooth.

The recipe for the little ones

Rice is often added to the version of this soup, intended for the smallest gourmets. Krupa makes the dish even more satisfying.

 

Ingredients:

  • broccoli cabbage - 130 - 150 g;
  • ready-made chicken broth - half a liter;
  • onions - 40 - 50 g;
  • carrots - 30 - 40 g;
  • rice - a full tablespoon;
  • salt.

Cooking:

  1. Cut the peeled onions into miniature cubes. The smaller the pieces, the less noticeable they will be in the soup. Otherwise, the apparent presence of this useful vegetable can ruin the appetite of the baby.
  2. Peel and grind the carrots using a grater with the smallest holes.
  3. Send both prepared vegetables to a pot with already boiling chicken stock.
  4. Pour thoroughly washed rice groats. If you do not plan to add it, then you will need to increase the total number of vegetables in such a children's dish.
  5. Salt the future soup. Boil it for about a quarter of an hour until the cereals are completely softened.
  6. Only after this pour in cabbage inflorescences. Previously, they need to cut off all the solid parts.
  7. Continue cooking broccoli chicken soup for another 12 to 14 minutes.
  8. Remove the finished dish from the fire and let it brew well.

Serve this tasty and healthy treat to the table, for example, with low-fat sour cream or cream.

Gentle cream soup

The most successful option for preparing the soup in question is when the treat is mashed and turned into a delicate cream with a light creamy aftertaste. Both children and adults will definitely like it.

Ingredients:

  • poultry fillet - 130 - 150 g;
  • broccoli cabbage - 100 - 120 g;
  • leeks - 30 - 40 g;
  • water - 450 ml;
  • fat cream - ½ tbsp .;
  • salt and spices.

Instead of water for such a soup, you can take a similar amount of strong chicken broth cooked on the bones. Then it will turn out even tastier and more satisfying.

Cooking:

  1. Send poultry fillet into water or broth, cut into small pieces. Put it to cook until fully cooked.
  2. At this time, in a skillet in any fat (best of all, in butter), soften the leek, cut into thin miniature rings.
  3. Add vegetable frying with oil to already cooked bird. To fill in salt, spices, cabbage divided into “umbrellas”. Cook everything until soft broccoli.
  4. Kill the resulting mass with a submersible blender. It should become as uniform as possible.
  5. Only after using a blender add cream. They must first be heated separately.
  6. Leave the cream soup on the stove for another couple of minutes. At this time, you need to carefully monitor so that it does not boil.

Serve the finished treat to the table with homemade garlic or cheese crackers.

With the addition of cauliflower

In the soup in question, you can combine two different types of cabbage at once. For example, broccoli and color. The result is a dish with a very bright and interesting taste.

Ingredients:

  • purified filtered water - 1 l;
  • boneless chicken - 90 - 100 ml;
  • potatoes, carrots and onions - 35-40 g each;
  • broccoli and cauliflower - 60 g each;
  • salt, dill.

Cooking:

  1. Boil chicken (preferably wings) in salt water until cooked. This will take about 40 - 45 minutes. Additional ingredients can be added to improve the taste of the broth.
  2. Pour potato and onion cubes, grated carrots.
  3. Add two kinds of cabbage, divided into “umbrellas”.
  4. At the very end of cooking, pour dill. The greens must first be washed, dried and finely chopped. In addition to or instead of dill, you can also take parsley, chives.
  5. Let the soup cook for another 3 to 4 minutes.
  6. After turning off the stove, leave the treat to infuse for 10 minutes - then the soup will be even tastier.

You can serve refreshments with various additives. For example, with sour cream, mayonnaise, cream. Crispy white bread croutons with cheese and garlic complement it well.

Even diet food may well be delicious. Make sure this will allow chicken soup with the addition of broccoli. You can improve its taste with the help of various spices and other additives.

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