Recipe - Heathers Cream Of Broccoli Soup

One fourth cup Unsalted butter
One half cup Flour
1 lg Sweet onion; finely chopped
1 Clove garlic; finely minced
One half ga Milk; very scant, (nonfat
is OK just use a little
less)
2 Crowns broccoli; cooked and
minced
Tabasco Sauce
Salt
White Pepper

Melt butter in the bottom of a heavy soup pan. Add onion and cook over
medium heat until translucent. Add flour and cook, stirring often, until
the flour is thoroughly cooked usually about five minutes. Add a little
of the milk, stir to incorporate. Keep adding milk until about half is
incorporated. Add broccoli and garlic, then last of milk. Heat without
boiling. Season as desired I use a few drops of Tabasco, 1 tsp. salt and
1 tsp. pepper.

Variations: Add One half pound (or more) Velveeta cheese, cubed, during final
heating. Substitute Cauliflower for One half or all of the Broccoli Use black
pepper if you don't mind the black specks
Posted to TNT Recipes Digest, Vol 01, Nr 968 by Heather Hamilton
cyberian@pacbell.net on Jan 27, 1998