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Goldilocks' Gourmet Spinach Soup Recipe
   
Recipe Categories: Soups and Stews   |   Vegetable Recipes
Average Rating: (6 votes)
Yield: 6 servings
 
Ingredients
  5  T Butter, sweet  
  1/4  lb Mushrooms, fresh; washed, dried, trimmed & diced  
  1   Scallion; chopped  
  5  T Flour, all-purpose  
  2  c Chicken broth  
  2  c Milk  
  1/2  ts Salt; (opt)  
    Pepper, black  
    Nutmeg, ground; (opt)  
  1/4  lb Cream cheese; softened & cut into cubes  
  1  c Swiss cheese; grated  
  3/4  lb Spinach, fresh  
 
Instructions
 
  1. Wash spinach; trim, cook, and chop.

 
  2. Melt the butter in a large saucepan. In it slowly saute the mushrooms and scallion until tender. Add flour and stir just until flour is cooked, a couple of minutes.

 
  3. Whisk in first chicken broth and then milk, stirring until thickened. Add salt if desired, pepper, nutmeg if desired, cream cheese and Swiss cheese; stir until melted. Then stir in spinach. Heat and stir very gently.

 
  4. Season to taste. Serve hot.

 
   


 
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