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If you are on a diet then click away now, this cauliflower soup recipe is not for you and has been the downfall of every diet I have ever tried.
They say all things in moderation but this soup rarely makes it to the freezer, although it does freeze well. I freeze the soup in bags, rather than plastic containers as I find it stores better and takes up a lot less room in the freezer.
I just love cooking with fresh vegetables and soup is an excellent thing to have in your freezer, particularly during winter as you can have a hot filling bowl of soup in just a couple of minutes.
Ingredients:
1 large cauliflower
1 large onion
2 cloves garlic
1 pint chicken stock
1.5 oz butter
1/2 pint milk
1/4 pint cream
2oz cheddar cheese
salt and pepper
Method:
Saute the onion and garlic in the butter. In a large soup pan add the stock, milk, cauliflower and onion. Add salt and pepper to taste. Bring it to the boil and then reduce the heat and let it simmer for about 40 minutes. Add the grated cheese and allow it to melt. Remove from heat and add the cream.
At this stage it will look awful but don’t worry, just liquidise and you will have a delicious creamy soup.
I have also made this soup using cauliflower and broccoli, just double the other ingredients.
Please let me know your thoughts if you try this cauliflower soup recipe.
March 23rd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
mmmm will be trying that one – might even sneak some croutons on top
March 27th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
this sounds delicious, so do we not need to blend the mixture
March 27th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Hi Louisa, sorry did I forget to say liquidise the soup. I was probably too busy eating it at the time.
February 13th, 2010 at 3:05 pm
ooh great recipie – at the moment my favv homemade soup is roasted tomato and yellow pepper, its so easy because you just bung everything in a roasting tin for forty mins and then blend!
But I’ll definatly give yours ago this week!
May 23rd, 2010 at 9:17 am
Hi, Sally – we serve a cauliflower soup in our coffee shop – ok we also serve cream of cauliflower and broccoli as well. My nephews labelled this “Green Soup” and would eat it when you couldn’t drag them screaming anywhere near a vegetable!
If you leave out the cream, cheese and butter you’ll find you still get a really nice tasting soup but the calorie count goes down! We use semi-skimmed milk in ours – so that might also shave a calorie or two …..
A new favourite in the coffee shop is a tomato and smoked mackerel soup. My husband, Sandy, has started reading recipe books for new soup recipes and he came across this in one of them. It’s not an obvious combination but it works really well. He had a senior moment the other day when he couldn’t find smoked mackerel in the supermarket, so he substituted some salmon and cod – and it tasted really good as well.
I’ll look up the recipe and post it here for you.
Margaret
May 23rd, 2010 at 10:59 am
Wow that sounds amazing Margaret and as I’m on a diet at the moment I shall try it as soon as the cauliflower is ready to pick and report back. Do you have a website with recipes on?
Would love the recipe for the tomato and fish soup, it does sound a bit odd but I love smoked mackerel so will have to try that.
Where is your coffee shop, sounds like a place I would love to visit.
May 23rd, 2010 at 11:42 am
Hi, Sally – thanks for your comment!
OK, first of all, tomato and smoked mackerel soup -
An onion
Cauliflower (a few florets will do)
A couple of potatoes diced up
1 carrot, diced
1 leek chopped
1 tin of chopped tomatoes
1 small can tomato soup
Fish stock (1 pint approximately)
1 fillet of smoked mackerel, flaked
Parsley to garnish.
Put all ingredients (except parsley) into a soup pot, bring to the boil and then simmer gently till the vegetables are tender. Garnish with parsley and then serve with some lovely crusty bread or a roll
We’re in Helensburgh, on the north shore of the Clyde, and our shop is on the “sea front”. We’ve been there for 21 years (how did that happen????????) I haven’t published many recipes but you can find some of them, as well as some other witterings at http://www.aweber.com/z/rss/?macrecipes
Best
Margaret
May 31st, 2010 at 3:09 am
Hi Margaret
Oh you’re not a billion miles from Cumbria then, maybe I’ll have to come and try some of your receipes for myself one day. 21 years, gosh time flies doesn’t it .. although if people have been eating your food for 21 years then you must be doing something right.
Thanks for the recipe, shall give that a go and sounds great for my diet too.
October 14th, 2010 at 8:07 pm
The recipe is delicious! I have replaced half of the cream with butter and oh my is was good. (Don’t do this too often tho!)
I also replaced cheddar cheese with parmesan cheese, just a personal preference.
March 18th, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Thanks for the info. I just love learning new receipes and different ways to prepare good meals. Great blog by the way