Cream Of Asparagus Soup

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 cups water or 2 cups stock
• 1 1/2 cups chopped onions
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 6 tablespoons flour
• 1/2-1 teaspoon dill weed (to taste)
• 1 1/2 lbs fresh asparagus
• 4 cups scalded milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• pepper
• tamari

Recipe

• 1 break off the tough asparagus bottoms and discard them. break off the asparagus tips and set them aside.
• 2 chop the stalks, can cook them with the onions in the butter, salting them lightly.
• 3 after about 8-10 minutes, when onions are clear, sprinkle in the flour.
• 4 continue to cook over lowest possible heat, 5-8 minutes.
• 5 add water or stock. cook 8-10 minutes, stirring frequently, until thickened.
• 6 puree the sauce bit-by-bit with the milk in the blender. blend it until throroughly smooth.
• 7 return the puree to a kettle, preferably a double boiler, and add dill, salt, pepper and tamari.
• 8 heat the soup very gently - don't boil it or cook it.
• 9 as it heats, steam or saute the asparagus tips until tender, but still very green. add these, whole, to the soup.
• 10 serve as immediately as possible.