Cheese soup with zucchini strips

AUTHOR
Shirley Vincent
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
20 mins
TOTAL TIME
20 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 small onion
  • 250 g Courgette
  • 25 g Butter or margarine
  • 25 g Flour
  • 100 ml dry white wine
  • 3/4 l clear chicken stock (instant)
  • 75 g Cream processed cheese
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp black pepper
  • 1 pinch Sugar
  • 100 g Whipped cream
  • 1/2 bunch Basil

Directions

  1. 1

    Peel and finely chop the onion. Clean and wash the zucchini and cut into very fine strips. Heat the fat in a pot and fry the onions. Sprinkle with flour, sweat and deglaze with wine and chicken soup while stirring. Bring to the boil. Cut cheese into pieces and melt in the soup while stirring. Bring to the boil and season with salt, pepper and sugar.

  2. 2

    Add zucchini and simmer for 2-3 minutes. In the meantime whip cream until semi-stiff. Wash basil, dab dry and pluck leaves from the stalks. Put some leaves aside for garnishing. Cut remaining leaves into strips and stir into the soup. Serve the soup with some cream. Serve with the rest of the basil and sprinkled with pepper

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
230 kcal
CARBS
8 g
FATS
18 g
PROTEINS
6 g