Irish Yellow Broth – Comforting Soup

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We’re back from our big cross country adventure and nothing is more satisfying than enjoying a bowl of warm soup on a cold winter day. I enjoy Irish Yellow Broth for lunch or dinner. If you have some extra spinach in the fridge this is a quick and easy soup that goes together well. The recipe calls for steel cut oats, I think this is the only soup recipe I have that uses steel cut oats!

Irish Yellow Broth

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp butter
1 onion, minced
1 celery stalk, minced
1 carrot, finely chopped
2 Tbsp flour
3 ¼ cup chicken stock
¼ cup steel cut oats
1 ½ cup chopped spinach
2 Tbsp cream
salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

Melt the butter in a saucepan and add onion, celery and carrots, cook the vegetables about 2 minutes or until the onions are soft.

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Stir in the flour and cook slowly for another minute, stirring constantly. Pour in the chicken broth and the oats and bring to a boil, lower the heat and cover. Simmer for 30 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.

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Stir in the chopped spinach and cook for 15 minutes.

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Stir in cream and season to taste.

When I make this I sometimes omit the cream, it is delicious either way. The original recipe instructed you to add the oats with the spinach. I have always added them with the broth so they have longer to cook, this gives the soup a nice creamy texture.

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Irish Yellow Broth

26 thoughts on “Irish Yellow Broth – Comforting Soup”

  3. oh my, that looks so comforting! I have never heard of oats being put into soup and looking at the picture….I am not sure if we can get them like that in Australia but I guess you could substitute with barley. Thanks for linking up with What’s for dinner Wednesday with Cath@Home…..I will be trying out this recipe for sure.

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    1. Cth,
      I have used barley in a soup before, i would imagine your could find steel cut oats in Australia but I’ll be they’re called something else! 🙂

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  5. Hi Nancy,
    Very interesting recipe that sounds quite healthy and tasty, This would be great for a cold Winter’s day. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Pinned & tweeted!

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  9. Hi Nancy,
    Just a note to let you know that I have chosen your posts as one of my features for this weeks Real Food Fridays blog hop that goes live every Thursday @ 7pm EST. Thank you sharing your posts and helping us on our mission to make this world a little bit healthier every week.

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  14. I’ve never used steel oats in a soup before, this looks so comforting and delicious, wish I had a bowl for dinner tonight! This is one of my favorites from What’d You Do This Weekend? and will be one of my features at tomorrow’s party 🙂

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