Broccoli Cheese Soup Recipe

Every Sunday night is soup and sandwich night at our house.  One of the reasons I love soup is because they are inexpensive to make and hard to mess up.  A lot of times you can just use a little of whatever you have in the house to make a vegetable or chicken soup.  One of my favorite soups to make is Broccoli Cheese Soup.  I have made it on the stove, in the crockpot, and in the InstantPot.  I have made it with different kinds of cheeses.  The recipe below is my favorite recipe (and yes it would be healthier if you used regular cheese instead of Velveeta but it is so good!)

6 tbsp butter
a small onion finely chopped
4 cups chicken broth
1/3 cup flour
3 cups of milk
1 bag of frozen broccoli
1 lb processed cheese (Velveeta) cubed

In a large saucepan, saute onion in butter until tender. Stir in flour. Add milk slowly and stir until thick and bubbly. At the same time, bring chicken broth to a boil in a saucepan. Add broccoli and boil for 10 minutes. Stir in to milk mixture until smooth. Add cubed cheese and stir until melted over medium heat. Do not let soup boil after adding cheese or it can separate.