Sofa, this is especially for you since you would LOVE this soup, it tastes like hot sex and I have some right now ;)
These are approximations, I cook by taste and make up my recipes as I go. I used a vegetable stock although a mild chicken stock really brings out the flavour of stilton alot better.
Ingredients:
Vegetable stock
Cider
Stilton
Broccoli
Salt and Pepper
One small onion
Cream
For the stock:
One Lemon
A half handful of thyme
One large onion
Skins, cut-offs and peels from onions, carrots, peppers, potatoes, fennel, celery and broccoli
Salt and Black Pepper to taste
One bulb of garlic
One glass of white wine
Water
Butter or vegetable oil
Sugar
Method-
Heat a large oven-proof pan on the stove, add a few tablespoons of oil or one tablespoon of butter.
Add a pinch of salt and pepper- after 20 seconds turn the heat up and and add the vegetable cut-offs. At this point shell the garlic, leaving the cloves to one side to add the outer bulb skins to the pan.
Dice the onion and garlic, add it and sweat everything off over a low heat for 10 minutes, until the onion becomes caramelised. Burning the garlic will result in a very bitter and unpleasant flavour.
Pour in the glass of wine, taking care not to drink any >_>. Add finely chopped thyme and the juice of one lemon.
When the alcohol has evaporated out of the wine, pour in the glass of water and plenty of salt and pepper. If the flavour is too sour add sugar, one teaspoon at a time until the sourness is gone.
Add another quarter litre of water and place the pan in the oven at around 200 deg C.
After a half hour remove the pan, strain the liquid and taste. Season accordingly but remember that stilton is a salty cheese and will permeate the flavour of the soup.
Return the stock to the heat once the flavour is balanced - it is soup ready :D.
Add all the broccoli florets. Once they are cooked, add a finely diced small onion.
Turn the heat off and blitz the mixture with an immersion blender.
Turn the heat back on, add six tablespoons of stilton and a tablespoon of pepper.
Once the cheese has melted, add a half cup of cream and serve.
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