Can you freeze broccoli and stilton soup?
Yes. Freeze it in containers, one meal to each.
How to freeze and defrost it, with the Food Standards Agency’s advice at each step.
The recipe
One batch makes 4 portions.
Ingredients for 4 portions
Method
Prep
- Boil water in the kettle.
- Peel and dice onions into 1 cm pieces.
- Slice celery stick thinly.
- Slice leek into thin rounds.
- Dice maris piper potatoes into 1 cm cubes.
- Cut head of broccoli into small florets and slice the stalk 1 cm thick.
Soften the vegetables
- Heat vegetable oil in your biggest pan over a medium heat.
- Add the onion and fry for 5 minutes, stirring now and then, until soft.
- Add the celery, leek, potato and unsalted butter and stir until the butter melts.
- Cover and let the vegetables sweat for 5 minutes, then take the lid off.
Simmer
- Crumble in vegetable stock cube, pour in the water from the kettle and add the broccoli stalks.
- Simmer for 15 minutes until the potato is soft.
- Add the florets and cook for 5 minutes more.
Blend
- Blend the soup in the pan with a stick blender until smooth.
- Crumble in stilton and stir, leaving a few lumps.
- Season with black pepper.
To eat now
- Ladle into bowls and serve.
How to freeze
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cool any warm dishes before putting them in your freezer
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Pour into your containers, one meal to each, and seal.
How to defrost
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the safest way to defrost food is in the fridge overnight
, says the Food Standards Agency. - Take it out of its container.
- Tip it into a pan and heat it, stirring, until it’s steaming hot all the way through.
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it is important that food is cooked to steaming hot throughout, rather than warmed
, says the Food Standards Agency.
How we’d cook it, not advice. We don’t check recipes for allergens, and ingredients vary by brand, so check the label on everything you use. Prepare and cook food the way the Food Standards Agency says. Allergens and food safety
Nutrition
Per portion- Energy
- 364 kcal
- Fat
- 24.5g
- Carbohydrate
- 19g
- Protein
- 15g
Nutrition details
- Energy
- 364 kcal
- Fat
- 24.5g
- of which saturates
- 13.8g
- Carbohydrate
- 19g
- of which sugars
- 6.6g
- Fibre
- 5.8g
- Protein
- 15g
- Salt
- 1.97g
Estimated from ingredient data.
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Used in
Bought a head of broccoli? Use the rest of the head of broccoli : side of broccoli and broccoli stalk sticks in the same session.
No special kit
- Works best in freezer bags Any freezer-safe container does the job too.
- Everything from one shop Batch cook it with Nomstash and the freezer bags go on the same shopping list as the food.
Cook what you already cook
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Freezing and defrosting safely
The Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words.
Label everything you freeze.
label food you freeze so you don’t end up with Unidentified Frozen Objects (UFOs)
The rest of the Food Standards Agency’s advice, in their words, is in our freezing and defrosting guide.
Sources
- Food Standards Agency How to chill, freeze and defrost food safely gov.uk
- Food Standards Agency Cooking your food gov.uk
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