The flavors of broccoli cheddar soup are so comforting any time of year, but especially during winter soup season. Ree Drummond loves broccoli cheese soup so much that she took the flavors and turned them into pizza, too. Her Broccoli Cheese Stromboli recipe is a new fun way to enjoy that broccoli cheddar combo and can be made with mostly store-bought ingredients.
“The boys have eaten my broccoli cheese soup since they were babies,” Drummond says in a clip on Food Network’s Instagram account. “And so putting a broccoli cheese spin on pizza is a really good idea.”
She starts by softening broccoli florets in a skillet with diced onion and garlic. Most of the cooking will take place in the oven, but those bits of broccoli need a head start.
While the broccoli mixture cools, Drummond prepares the dough. Although you can use homemade or store-bought pizza dough to assemble your stromboli, she uses frozen bread dough that can be found in the freezer section of your local grocery store.
“Frozen bread dough is such a revelation,” Drummond says. “They’re frozen before they rise, so you just have to let them thaw out and then give them a chance to rise a little bit. And I’m telling you what, I use this stuff for so many things as a shortcut.”
She rolls and forms the dough into a rectangular shape and then adds a layer of sundried tomato pesto from a jar. “You can do regular marinara sauce or pizza sauce, of course,” she notes. “This is another shortcut ingredient…If you had to stop and make the pesto, it would take way, way too long.”
Then Drummond adds her broccoli mix onto the dough, as well as a healthy layer of shredded cheddar cheese and a few slices of mozzarella. Before rolling the dough into a log, she adds a few basil leaves to add a fresh accent to the filling.
The stromboli then goes into the oven to bake up and get all melty. After cooling for a few minutes, Drummond then slices the stromboli into thin sections for serving.
There are so many variations you can do when it comes to this recipe. Drummond says you can make stromboli with your leftovers or switch up the types of cheese you use depending on what other ingredients are inside. And someone in the comments said that they’d add chicken to their filling.
Grab the full recipe here and add Broccoli Cheese Stromboli to your recipe repertoire.
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