Easiest Way to Cook Perfect Cream of Spinach Soup

Cream of Spinach Soup.

you can have Cream of Spinach Soup using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cream of Spinach Soup

1. It's 1 pound of spinach, well washed, thick stems trimmed.
2. You need 3 of spring onions, trimmed & roughly chopped.
3. Prepare 3 cups of chicken or vegetable stock.
4. Prepare of Small grating of nutmeg.
5. You need of Salt and pepper.
6. It's 1 cup of heavy or light cream, half-and-half or milk.

Cream of Spinach Soup instructions

1. Place trimmed spinach and chopped spring onions in a large saucepan..
2. And stock to the saucepan and turn heat to medium high. Bring to a boil, and lower heat so mixture barely bubbles. Cook, stirring occasionally, until spinach is very tender, about 10 minutes..
3. Turn off heat, add nutmeg and a sprinkling of salt and pepper, and let cool at least a few minutes..
4. Pour soup into a blender, in batches if necessary, and carefully purée. (Alternatively, use an immersion blender directly in the pan which is what I do when blending soups.) Return to pan, add cream, and over medium-low heat, reheat gently, stirring occasionally. When soup is hot, adjust seasoning, and serve..
5. Garnish with a few pieces of the chopped onions or a swirl of cream (optional)..