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BREAKING NEWS: It is going to rain FOR DAYS in Arizona.
This isn’t a joke so please plan accordingly. Do not get on the road. We all know Arizonans don’t know how to drive in the rain.
Arizona may be the only place in the nation where when rain is in the forecast, it is the TOP news story. “Here we are reporting live from Gilbert, Arizona where we received an astounding 1/4 inch of rain.” Epic. Gotta love Arizona. We get a little giddy when it rains. All the kids run outside for a rain dance with no shirts on and teenagers post videos on social media of liquid falling from the sky.
So, since rain is in the forecast, soup is on the dinner menu. However, because my husband Dean has a strict “no soup policy in the summer”, we fit in as much soup as possible in the winter. I could eat soup all year long but he believes that it belongs only in the winter and summer is for salads and burgers. He may be right but I think this Creamy Spinach Artichoke Soup can be eaten all day, every day.
When I was in high school, I discovered the best cream of spinach and artichoke soup at a local cafe called Cracker’s. Since I was a huge fan of spinach artichoke dip already, the thought of eating it in a soup made me happy. It was so creamy and delicious that it soon had a massive following.
This Creamy Spinach Artichoke Soup is made by sauteing onions and garlic in butter until nice and soft. Frozen spinach is added along with spices and chicken broth. Artichokes, heavy cream, parmesan cheese and cream cheese round out the soup. How can you go wrong with that list of ingredients? Thank heavens there is spinach in there to balance it all out!
This Creamy Spinach Artichoke Soup is absolutely heavenly.
- If you want to make this Creamy Spinach Artichoke Soup keto-friendly, you can remove the flour from the recipe. The flour serves as a thickening agent but I have had numerous comments from people who say it is still utterly delicious and creamy without it! This soup will be perfect for the keto diet.
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Creamy Spinach Artichoke Soup
Equipment
Ingredients
- 2 Tablespoons Butter
- 1 Onion chopped
- 4 Garlic Cloves minced (or 3/4 teaspoon Garlic Powder)
- 1 - 9- ounce pkg. Frozen Chopped Spinach may use 1/2 of pkg. if you so desire
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1 teaspoon Pepper
- 3 Tablespoons Flour may delete if you want gluten-free or keto-friendly soup
- 4 cups Chicken Broth
- 1 - 14 ounce can Artichoke Hearts drained and roughly chopped
- 1- 1 1/2 cups Heavy Cream depending on how creamy you want the soup
- 1 - 8- ounce pkg. Cream Cheese
- 1 cup Parmesan Cheese plus additional 1/2 cup for garnish
Instructions
- In a large pot, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add onion and saute for 5 minutes. Add garlic and saute for 1 minute longer.
- Stir in frozen spinach. Stir often and break apart using a wooden spoon. Cook for 5-7 minutes or until spinach is warmed throughout. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stir in flour, stirring well to avoid any lumps.
- Pour in chicken broth and artichoke hearts. Heat for 5-10 minutes.
- Turn heat to LOW. Add heavy cream. Stir together. Add cream cheese and let melt slowly. You want it to be at a low heat to prevent curdling.
- Stir in parmesan cheese.
- Season according to taste. Sprinkle with parmesan cheese shavings.
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Now, I can eat this copycat version of Cracker’s cream of spinach and artichoke soup at home, cuddled in a blanket, watching rain fall from the sky in Arizona. Miracles to exist.
Omitted the flour. Absolutely delicious – THANK YOU!!
This creamy spinach artichoke soup recipe looks so amazing and yummy at the same time. Found your post so easy to follow along when preparing them yesterday. So mesmerized by this. Thanks for sharing!
Followed recipe exactly, without flour.
As is: it should be called cream cheese and artichoke soup. It’s practically a dip cold. The cream cheese seriously needs to be halved.
So I reheated by adding milk, butter, broth and spinach and it THEN it tasted right. Great, actually.
Depending on how much I want to make, next time I’ll use less cream cheese or just add more of everything else.
This soup was so easy to make, sautee’d the butter with garlic and red onion, then added frozen spinach. Combined in crockpot with all remaining ingredients except heavy cream. Cooked for 3hrs on high,removed from crockpot and added 1c. of heavy. Perfect, very yummy!!
I love this soup! I’ve made it a few times and it has always been a favorite of everyone’s. I forgot to add the flour the first time, so I’ve keep it out. Great recipe! Thank you for sharing!
Are these artichokes in water or marinated?
Oy My God! Made this soup today as I have been on a spinach and artichoke kick (love the dip, recently made a quiche like it). This is THE. BEST. SOUP. I have ever tasted! Thank you so much for the recipe!
***MACROS***
If you follow the recipe as written (minus the flour):
70% Fat
20% Protein
10% Net Carbs
6 Servings (per/ea):
42.5g fat
11.5g protein
6g net carbs
So delicious, and perfect keto macros! I’m so glad my friend shared this with me, and thank you for posting. <3
I know there are 6 servings but do you remember what the serving size measured was? Im trying to plan for freezing some and need to make sure I have plenty of the correct size containers! ????
Made this last night in my cast iron dutch oven – so delicious. I subbed the flour for coconut flour because I’m doing Keto and it worked perfectly. I also boiled two chicken breasts and shredded them and added them to the soup for the last ~5 minutes. Best soup recipe I’ve made!
My husband has been a cook for years and never was a soup person. He said this was a 10! It was my whole family enjoyed this very much. This is for sure a keeper!
This was the best soup ive ever had and was so simple to make! Doing keto and really wanted something creamy and that fekt like cheating lol this was perfect!!!!!!