Cream Of Spinach And Artichoke Soup

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces cream cheese
• 8 ounces frozen chopped spinach
• 6 cups chicken stock
• 1 pint heavy cream
• 1 (13 -14 ounce) can artichoke hearts (drain and squeeze most of the juice out of the artichokes and cut in quarters or just pull them apar)
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 1/2 teaspoons black pepper
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1/2 yellow onion, chopped

Recipe

• 1 start this creamy soup by adding six cups of chicken stock to a large soup pot and turn the heat on the stove-top to medium high.
• 2 when the stock begins to boil, reduce the heat to low medium and add eight ounces frozen cut spinach, half a chopped yellow onion, one tablespoon of minced garlic and the drained, squeezed and cut artichokes. simmer for ten minutes.
• 3 add the salt and black pepper. stir well.
• 4 cut the cream cheese into small slices. each time you cut a slice off, add it to the pot. stir well until it's totally melted, approximately 5 minutes.
• 5 add one pint of heavy cream to the pot and stir well. simmer 5 more minutes.