CREAM OF BROCCOLI SOUP 
1 lg. head broccoli
1 stick butter
1 1/2 tbsp. flour
Salt and pepper
1 lg. can Swanson's Chicken Broth
1/2 c. uncooked rice (not Minute Rice)
1 pt. sour cream

Steam broccoli. In a saucepan melt butter. stir in flour until it is syrupy. Add a dash of salt and pepper. Stir in 3/4 cup of chicken broth to butter and flour mixture. Add the rice and allow to simmer for 1/2 hour, stirring occasionally. After 1/2 hour chop and drain broccoli, saving the water for stock. Add to butter, flour and rice mixture. Stir in remainder of can of chicken broth.

Put entire mixture in a blender and puree. (You may have to do this a bit at a time, depending upon size of blender.) Add broccoli. Stock water as needed. Finally, simmer in a big pot along with sour cream. Stir.

 

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