Spinach Garlic Soup

"This soup turns to a brilliant green color. My kids take leftovers to school for lunch and ask me to often make this easy soup. I have substitued skim milk for the cream with good results"
 
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Ready In:
25mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • In a 5qt Dutch oven, bring spinach, broth and carrots to a boil.
  • Reduce heat; simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • Remove from the heat; cool to luke-warm.
  • Meanwhile, in a skillet, saute onion and garlic in butter until onion is soft,about 5-10 minutes.
  • Add flour; cook and stir over low heat for 3-5 minutes.
  • Add to spinach mixture.
  • Puree in small batches in a blender or food processor until finely chopped.
  • Place in a large saucepan.
  • Add cream, milk, and pepper, heat through but do not boil.

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Reviews

  1. POST COMMENT: I went back and rated this anyways. It deserves to have at least five stars! I have tried the soup and thats all that matters. It warms your belly while awakening your taste buds.... it is a very hard experience to describe. So try it and see if you can explain the greatness of this soup! Not sure if it is fair for me to rate this seeing as I've had this from the GREAT MissPenny's kitchen itself, so here I am just commenting. EVEN THOUGH this deserves WAY more then five stars!!!!... I remember the first time I had this. I came home from school (then 7th grade) and MissPenny said Here! Try this! Of coure me being a 7th grader thought Ewwww Spinach! Ewwww Green Soup!!!! But MMMMMMMMM the smell just MADE me have to try it, and I have LOVED it EVER since. I miss it now :( With college and all. But there is always the hope of SPINACH GARLIC SOUP in the future :) TRY IT if nothing else...dont shy from the ingreidents or the funky green color! I took it to school for lunch and all my friends turned up their noses... UNTIL they tried it!!!!! WONDERFUL UNIQUE SOUP!!!!!
     
  2. Wonderful soup! As usual I had to modify it a bit. I substituted the flour for a potato and instead of making it in two pots, I sauteed the garlic, onion and carrot; then I added the potato and chicken stock. I then added the spinach and turned off the heat and let it sit for awhile before I gave it a go in the blender. I've already had a bowl and am ready for more! Thanks so much for this recipe.
     
  3. I enjoyed this soup. The texture and color reminded me of a broccoli soup I make. However, I really only tasted the garlic. Not that this is a negative, as I love garlic. However, I did not taste the spinach at all. Also, it almost tasted watered down, even though I used chicken broth. Next time I will try using only 3/4 cup of heavy cream and not adding the additional 1/4 cup of milk. As a garlic soup, this is a winner. Thank you for posting.
     
  4. Made this for Mother's Day, and it earned many good reviews. Very easy to make, and a great way to get the greens down! I used goat milk from my own goats that has a very high butterfat content, so I just put in a cup of that rather then a mixture of cream and milk. I also reduced the butter. I did think it needed something a little more and added a few squeezes of lemon juice and a few dashes of garlic salt. Thank you very much for sharing. :^)
     
  5. First, I have to say that I followed the directions exactly. (I have a terrible habit of "tweaking" recipes.) Second, I'm not giving this a rating since everyone else who's rated it really liked it. We (4 adults) didn't care for it. We each had a small serving and the rest was thrown out. Was this soup supposed to taste slightly fishy? While I was making this, I noticed a fishy scent, and once it was served someone asked if I had used fish stock. I bought the spinach today specifically for this recipe and the spinach looked fresh. Could it have been the spinach that gave it that flavor?
     
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Tweaks

  1. Really good as is. I tried it before I tweaked it and would give that 5 stars as well. I wanted to see how it would be with 2 tablespoons of cream cheese and 1/4 cup parmesan cheese. Love it!!
     
  2. Comment: I had a big bag of garlic on hand so I decided to use this recipe to get rid of some of it. Well, I know the difference between a clove and a bulb of garlic...So why did I use 8 bulbs of garlic instead of 8 cloves? Even so it's edible, I wouldn't serve it to anyone else, but even with so much garlic I'm enjoying this soup. I'm laughing at myself for this error!
     
  3. Who knew you could make cooked spinach so tasty! I remember being a little hesitant the first time I tried this, what with it being green and all, but I'm so glad I did! I was actually fighting the family for leftovers the next day!! To make it healthier, I used 1 1/2 tablespoons of butter, 1 tablespoon of oil, and a cup of milk instead of the heavy cream/milk ratio, and we think it's fine like that. Thanks MissPenny!
     
  4. Lovely soup. I took the advice of several posters and tweaked the soup as they recommended, plus improvising myself as follows: I reduced the amount of garlic to a little over half that listed; sauted the onion, garlic and spinach in butter in one pot instead of using two; I omitted the carrot bc I did not have any on hand; I used one large cooked potato in place of the flour; I used vegetable stock instead of chicken and used a full cup of heavy cream instead of adding the milk. I'm glad I reduced the garlic b/c I think it would have overwhelmingly dominated the soup if I had not. The soup is a brighter green than I expected and, although delicious tasting, would look more appetizing with some chopped red peppers or grated carrots added as garnish. Wonderful to eat with warm crusty bread. Thank you so much, Miss Penny!
     
  5. Wow! What great, deep green color. I love healthy foods that taste good and this recipe fits easily into that category. I subbed whole milk for the heavy cream and reduced the butter by half with great results. (Good thing because I'm eating this all myself!)
     

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