Apple Brie Appetizer Soup Recipe - butter

Method

• Slowly melt the butter in a medium saucepan and stir in the celery, onions, and the cored apples.
• Saute the mixture on a low heat until every thing is soft and has turned golden in color.
• This will take about 10 minutes.
• Stir in the flour and continue to cook the mixture for approximately 3 minutes - you'll need to stir it the whole time you are cooking it.
• Pour into the mixture 1 cup of the chicken stock and whisk it briskly until it becomes thick and a little bubbly.
• Whisk in the remaining stock and bring it all to a boil.
• Reduce the heat, cover the mixture and simmer it for another 15 mintues or so.
• Sounds like a lot of work, and maybe it is a little more work than some of the appetizers listed here on this site, but it's so worth it!
• Take out of the saucepan whatever solids remain and puree them in a food processor or blender.
• Then return the pureed mix back to the saucepan.
• Remove the rind from the Brie cheese and cube it.
• If you are going to serve this appetizer soup soon after preparing it, make sure the Brie is at room temperature.
• Otherwise, don't remove the rind and cube until you are ready to use.
• When you are ready to bring out this apple brie appetizer soup, reheat on low heat, then stir in the Brie cheese cubes.
• Melt the cheese slowly while you stir it once in awhile.
• Then, when the cheese is completely melted, whisk it all very briskly.
• Puree the mixture a little if the consistency is not smooth.
• Then, stir the heavy cream into the mixture.
• Lastly, ladle the soup into your soup bowls and with the apple curls, garnish each bowl, topping with the toasted almonds.