MWL Broccoli & Cheese Soup. Make it now!

[Kai]

I cannot believe how good this is! MWL-legal Broccoli & Cheese Soup based Shelly's Cheez Please Soup on fatfreevegan.com.

3 small potatoes
2 cups vegetable broth
1 15 oz. can great northern beans, rinsed and drained
1/2 cup nutritional yeast flakes
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1pkg (10 oz.) frozen broccoli florets (I used an organic brand from Whole Foods that is cut up in tiny pieces)

Cook the potatoes in the broth then blend everything but the broccoli until Smooth. Put it back on the stove, add broccoli and cook until the broccoli is soft.

Seriously, this is so good that the only thing that stopped me from eating the whole pot was the 1 cup of beans a day rule.

[dlb]

Kai -

Thanks this looks good . I will give it a try.

Donna

[Quiver0f10]

This sounds fantastic!!!

[seamist]

I can't wait to try this. My favorite broc/cheese soup recipe is made with velveeta cheese and chicken broth and that isn't too healthy. Thanks for an alternative!

[Kai]

I couldn't resist. I just ate the rest of it for dinner...

[slugmom]

Thanks for posting this, I'll make it for lunch today. It's 50 degrees outside, the perfect day for soup!

[kimba]

I have some fresh cauliflower on hand, Im going to make this with that. Sounds very good. Love the taste of cheese.

kimba

[fiddler3]

I have started using a cheez sauce (on everything) based on great northern beans and nutritional yeast. Ym. thanks for this recipe kai...

fiddler3

[slugmom]

I'm eating mine now. I would say it's not bad, but **if you don't like nutritional yeast** cut back or omit. I wanted to follow the recipe as written, so I did not, and it tastes very nutritional yeasty to me.

I think I'll make it again another time without.

[Carol]

I noticed that the recipe that is posted at fatfreevegan (the with same title) has additional ingredients like onions, carrots, lemon juice, rice milk, etc.

Slugmom, maybe that will make a difference.

[slugmom]

Oh, I'll try that next time, Carol, thanks -- but I'll still cut waaaay back or omit the nutritional yeast -- experience tells me that the taste, for me, easily overwhelms. 1/2 cup is a lot ...

[Faith in DC]

I thought it sounded high too. Thanks for your input.

[Kai]

You're probably right about the Nutritional Yeast. I love the stuff & could eat it by the spoonful so it simply tasted cheesy to me. In fact, I as surprised out un-yeasty it tasted to me. It was so cheesy I was thinking about cutting back to save calories! But again...I eat a lot of it. I do remember the distinct taste of stinky feet when I first started eating it though so I know exactly what you mean.
And the ingredients I left out may help. I was looking for a Broccoli & Cheese soup like the one I remembered and that did not include extra veggies. Plus I'M lazy.

[slugmom]

I'll try it again with the other veggies, but maybe blended in ... to me nutritional yeast doesn't taste yeasty OR cheesy, it tastes... unpleasantly dusty. ~shrug~

I've tried several varieties and it all has tasted that way. I don't know if I'll ever come to like it, but I keep trying it now and then ...

[ncyg46]

what kind do you have? I am hooked on the red star...and make alot of cheese sauces with it and it tastes cheesy to me....
I make Neal Pickneys recipe most of the time since I am lazy and don't like to cook...
www.kumu.org

1 1/2 C Great Northern Beans...or any white bean..this time i used garbanzos
6T nutritional yeast
1/4 cup pimento pieces...I hate pimentos so I leave them out
or 1/4 cup chopped cooked sweet bell pepper...I hate cooking!
juice from one freshly squeezed lemon
1T low-salt shoyu (soysauce) or tamari
1 teas. onion powder..I chopped up some onion flakes in my coffee grinder
1/2 teas. any type of prepared mustard...made mine with horseradish mustard or stone ground
1/2 teas. salt or leave out...

blend...easy peasy and good!!!!

there are alot of really bad tasting nutritiional yeasts out there...red star is great! Love this over potatoes or as a dip...or mac and cheeze