Cauliflower Soup is a sublime silky soup that I can go for all year round and not just on cold days. Sometimes, I roast the cauliflower, and somedays I let it slow simmer with few herbs and spices. To make it extra special, I drizzle the soup with brown butter crispy sage.
I love the simplicity of the Cauliflower Soup. It needs just few everyday ingredients and as for the spices, you can pick whatever you like. Make it mild of spicy as per your taste bud.
Cauliflower Soup in Blender
Roasting Cauliflower helps enhancing the flavor of the cauliflower soup.
Making the soup in blender is the easiest. You roast caulifower along with garlic and onion along with dried herbs or spices, then all you need to do is blend with chicken/veg stock and your soup is ready to serve.
To make it extra creamy, you can add some cream while blending.
Cauliflower Soup in Instapot
To prepare the soup in Instapot, you stir fry onion, potatoes (if using) cauliflower with spices and herbs. Then pour the chicken stock or veg stock and pressure cook.
Use the hand blender to blend it to creamy soup.
Once again based on your liking, you can add some cream while blending.
Slow Simmering The Soup
This is the method I often choose to make my Cauliflower soup
In a heavy pot, you stir fry the onion, garlic, cauliflower, potatoes along with spices and herb. Then add stock along with milk and slow simmer until it’s softened.
Then use a hand blender to blend into creamy silky texture.
What Ingredients I used
- Butter
- White Onion
- garlic
- Bay leaf
- Cauliflower
- potato
- chicken/ vegetable stock
- milk
- fresh sage or any other choice of fresh or dried herb
- salt
- pepper
Garnish the Soup
The Soup on its own can taste a little bland, so you can spike it up by adding little pesto on top, or chili oil perhaps.
My sage plant is going wild, so I decided to add some brown butter crispy sage on top.
With some crispy croutons on top, it was quick weeknight healthy dinner. The soup is amazing even with some grilled cheese sandwich.
More Soup Recipes to Try
Cauliflower Soup
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ½ white onion (chopped)
- 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 1 bay leaf
- ½ of a cauliflower head (chopped)
- 1 medium size potato (peeled and chopped)
- 3 cups vegetable/chicken stock
- 1 cup milk
- few fresh sage
- salt
- pepper
for topping
- 2 tablespoon butter
- few fresh sage leaves
Instructions
- In a saucepan, melt the butter in low heat.
- Add onion, garlic, sage and bay leaf to the saucepan.
- Cook until the onion has softened. It should take about 3 minutes.
- Then, add the cauliflower, potato, stock and milk. Season with salt and pepper.
- Increase the heat to medium and let it cook for about 30 to 40 minutes, until the potato and cauliflower are softened.
- Remove from heat, discard the bay leaf and use an immersion blender or a food processor to purée it.
- For the topping, brown the butter and then add the sage leaves, fry in low heat until crispy.
- Garnish on soup
I also kept few cauliflower florets seperately and fried in butter before adding the sage leaves. Just for garnish.
Notes
Cauliflower Soup in Blender
Roasting Cauliflower helps enhancing the flavor of the cauliflower soup. Making the soup in blender is the easiest. You roast caulifower along with garlic and onion along with dried herbs or spices, then all you need to do is blend with chicken/veg stock and your soup is ready to serve. To make it extra creamy, you can add some cream while blending.Cauliflower Soup in Instapot
To prepare the soup in Instapot, you stir fry onion, potatoes (if using) cauliflower with spices and herbs. Then pour the chicken stock or veg stock and pressure cook. Use the hand blender to blend it to creamy soup. Once again based on your liking, you can add some cream while blending.Nutrition
Tiffany
I can relate to the confusing winter... it feels more like spring here in DC! Delish looking soup and beautiful pics!
nisha
that last pic is mind blowing..love evrything about it..and as for soup..i suck at making it and depend on those canned ones whenever i need some 🙂
aarthi
yummy soup
Anita Menon
Such a wonderful photography project. You seemed to have beautifully executed it. Great job done, Kankana.
The cauliflower soup looks so hearty, just what we need here in the blistering cold of Bahrain
jeyashrisuresh
creamy and yummy soup to have for this cold weather. great clicks
Zee
I think you have done a great job replicating that photo and I also think that your's look better 🙂
Sanjeeta kk
Such cozy pictures and soup to accompany in winter!
Rosa
A delicious soup and gorgeous clicks! I love your take on the original picture.
Cheers,
Rosa
Richa@HobbyandMore
love the clicks kankana.. i am just beginning to appreciate what goes into great food photography. Love this soup too, perfect for the current cold wave.
chinmayie @ love food eat
You have done fabulous job Kankana! Love your soup photo! This challenge sounds so interesting. May be even I should give it a shot sometime to challenge myself with different food photography styling/lighting 🙂
Manju
wow...I have always loved ur photograhy and this one again is a stunner!! I love these kind of creamy soupd, should try this one sometime...
Regards,
Manju
http://manjuseatingdelights.blogspot.com/
Athena
Awesome, you participated in the challenge too! Your interpretation looks fantastic, love the addition of the chili flakes. That last photo is spectacular with the warm reds and browns. Perfect styling and photography.
Raji
Beautiful work Kankana..love the dark tone pictures a lot.
Vijitha
Beautiful!!! Wonderful styling
Reem | Simply Reem
Beautiful Kankana!!!
I must say you have a gift of photography.....
Love each n every pick, specially where u tied rope on the spoon...
beautiful....
Grishma
Beautiful! Love all the shots...great job done Kankana!
pavithra
Awesome !! you have done a great job. Everything came out so good, really pretty. LOve all the shots 🙂
Ambika
Wow!! Absolutely loved the photos. Rustic, yet sophisticated. Will check out the Donna Hay challenges, I want to learn so much more!!
Priscilla M
Your pictures are lovely! And the soup looks very inviting, too...
Nadia
I love it!!!! Im going to try it out.And your photography looks great!