Roasted Broccoli and Fennel Soup

Smooth, wholesome and cozy bowls of soup is what we need this month! This Roasted Broccoli and Fennel Soup is super easy to make and roasting the veggies just makes the soup tastier. Top it with some croutons, shaved parmesan cheese, a little drizzle of olive oil and dig in.

Roasted Broccoli and Fennel Soup

This broccoli and fennel soup doesn’t have the most gorgeous shade and may look plain. But it has robust flavor from roasting the broccoli and fennels with a lot of garlic.

While the veggie was getting roasted, I boiled some potatoes with onion. Blending it all together made the soup creamy without adding any cream to it.

Of course, you could add cream, milk or cheese, if you wish. It’s just one of those soups that is so good whole year round but on cold days like today, it feels extra special.

Ingredients for the soup:

• broccoli florets
•  fennel bulb
• garlic cloves
• olive oil
• salt
• freshly cracked pepper
•  butter
• white onion
• diced potato
• vegetable/chicken stock
•  dried thyme
• Grated parmesan cheese

While I took the step of roasting the vegetables seperately and boiled the potatoes with onion seperately, you can roast everything and just blend it too.

Fennel and broccoli goes amazing together and in this soup the flavor comes through boldly because of roasting. The fennel gets sweeter and I munched a few right from the hot pan out of the oven. 

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I cannot promise that kids will love this soup. Avyan loves broccoli but he was not too thrilled seeing the soup. He mostly ate bread after dunking it in the soup. I didn’t mind as long as some food is going in his tummy. At the end, he did announce that he didn’t like the soup much, even though he did finish it. My sweet boy and a tough critic!

Roasted Broccoli and Fennel Soup

Kankana Saxena

Smooth, wholesome and cozy bowls of soup is what we need this month! This Roasted Broccoli and Fennel Soup is super easy to make and roasting the veggies just makes the soup tastier. Top it with some croutons, shaved parmesan cheese, a little drizzle of olive oil and dig in.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Total Time 35 minutes mins

Ingredients

 

• 2 cups broccoli florets
• 1 fennel bulb (sliced)
• 5 garlic cloves (peeled)
• 2 teaspoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon freshly cracked pepper
• 1 teaspoon butter
• ½ cup diced white onion
• 1 cup diced potato
• 2 cups vegetable/chicken stock
• 1 teaspoon dried thyme
• Grated parmesan cheese

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 400 F.
• Layer the broccoli florets, sliced fennel, and garlic cloves in a baking sheet. Drizzle 1 teaspoon of oil, salt and pepper. Mix it all together and place on the middle rack of the oven.
• Roast for 30 minutes.
• In the meantime, place a heavy bottom saucepan on medium heat and drop the butter. Once the butter melts, drop the onion along with the dried thyme. Sauté for 2 minutes and then, drop the diced potato along with the stock. (If the stock doesn’t have salt, sprinkle 1 teaspoon of salt into the pan)
• Crank up the heat and bring the stock to a boil. Then, lower the heat to medium and let it simmer for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are softened.
• Once the broccoli and fennel are roasted and the potatoes are softened, put everything in a blender and blend until smooth.
• Check for salt and add any, if required.
• Ladle the hot soup in the bowls. Garnish with fennel leaves, drizzle the remaining olive oil and sprinkle the parmesan cheese on top.

Nutrition

Serving: 1Serves 2