Prepare ingredients: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 1

Pour about 2.5 quarts of water into big cooking pot and bring to boil on a medium heat. Skin and dice celery and carrot, add to the cooking pot: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 2

Make sure water isn’t boiling too much (reduce heat if needed) and let vegetables to cook for 15 mins: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 3

Skin and dice potatoes, add to the cooking pot and boil for 5 mins: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 4

Wash chicken, slice into 2 inches big pieces, add to the pot, cooking for 15 mins: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 5

Clean and slice leek (or shallots), add to the cooking pot: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 6

Separate broccoli crowns into florets, rinse with cold water: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 7

Add broccoli to the cooking pot and cook until broccoli are soft, but don’t over cook or they will lose bright green color (took me about 10 mins over low boiling): Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 8

Remove cooking pot from the burner; add salt and pepper to taste and puree soup with immersion hand blender: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 9

Stop pureeing when soup gets homogeneous, then move it back to the burner and reduce heat to low: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 10

Add a cup of heavy cream or smaller amount of sour cream: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 11

Mix soup and cream together and keep it on the burner until soup warms up till temperature you like (but don’t let it boil): Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken Recipe: Step 12

Serve broccoli and chicken cream soup before main course for dinner; garnish it with chopped green parsley if you like: Soup Puree with Broccoli and Chicken