Cheesy Zucchini Soup
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
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3 Quarts
ingredients
- 6 cups water
- 3 cups onions, diced
- 5 cups squash, diced (may be a combo of zucchini, yellow squash and summer squash, using at least half zucchini)
- 7 cups zucchini, sliced in thin half rounds (if using very small squash, full rounds)
- 3 -4 tablespoons butter
- 2 1⁄4 teaspoons leaves oregano, crumbled
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 6 ounces sharp cheddar cheese, grated
- 1 (3 ounce) package cream cheese
- 3 tablespoons tamari
- 1⁄4 teaspoon black pepper or 1 pinch cayenne
- salt
directions
- Bring water, onion, diced squash, and butter to boil.
- Cook, covered over medium heat until squash begines to break down and form a broth, about 45 minutes.
- Add sliced zucchini, oregano, and garlic, and bring to a boil again.
- Reduce heat to simmer, and continue cooking for 5-10 minutes or until the zucchini slices are slightly tender.
- Turn heat down to low.
- In a tightly covered blender, blend together 1 1/2 cups of the hot soup broth including some of the zucchini slices and the cheddar and cream cheese until smooth.
- Add to the soup.
- Turn off heat, add tamari, pepper and salt to taste.
- Serve.
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This is delicious! Uses up that prolific weed called zucchini. I did make some minor changes for our tastes. Instead of water I used chicken broth, added a bay leaf and pureed the boiled vegetables, then adding the sliced zucchini along with some onions. Didn't have any tamari so I left it out, it was not missed. This will be made again! Thank you Tish for a very nice soup that uses up zucchini. :)shirley(:
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This is delicious! Uses up that prolific weed called zucchini. I did make some minor changes for our tastes. Instead of water I used chicken broth, added a bay leaf and pureed the boiled vegetables, then adding the sliced zucchini along with some onions. Didn't have any tamari so I left it out, it was not missed. This will be made again! Thank you Tish for a very nice soup that uses up zucchini. :)shirley(:
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
TishT
Las Vegas, Nevada
I live in Las Vegas. I was lucky enough to run into Recipezaar around Nov. 2000 and got hooked quickly. I am a cookbook collector and have been collecting recipes for as long as I can remember. My DH had to build in shelves for all my cookbooks! I like to dabble with OAMC and for a few years hosted the Budget/OAMC forum with some great people over there. Even though I don't work in the forum any longer I've set up a lot of cookbooks for the purpose of OAMC and stretching food that might be helpful. Please feel free to check them out! I go on food jags and cooking jags! Please come say hi to me and chat on facebook. I currently host a blog for saving money through finding deals and coupons if you are interested. Most of the time I try to cook and have a good dinner on the table but I'll be honest enough to say there is still fast food occasionally in the budget! I have had such wonderful support here whenever I need it. Thank you all for being here! Just a quick note on how I rate recipes:
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