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
Courtney
I didnt take the bay leaf out before I put it in the blender 🙁 Did I just ruin the whole thing??? 🙁
torviewtoronto
delicious looking soup and beautiful styling I like the idea of wrapping the wool around the spoon, thank you for the inspiration
regards
sally
I think I like your photos better than the one from the magazine. The soup sounds good too.
Deeps @ Naughty Curry
wow, i actually like your pic better! 😀 esp like the jute around the spoon gives it such a rustic old-world charm
Nami | Just One Cookbook
Let me say just once WOW!!! I could say that another 50 times. Seriously you did AMAZING job! Your replicate looks great, just like the original, but I like Kankana version of the last photos. It's simply beautiful. I'm so intimidated by the food photography and to be honest, I'm not at "comfortable" stage. I think it's because I don't practice and learn so I feel insecurity about not knowing what to do when pictures don't come out the way I wish. I like how you are aggressively challenging your food photography. I admire you and I see your photos are drastically improving, which is so fun to see! Unlike you, I love cauliflower, so I'll enjoy this recipe for sure!
Eha
Here in Australia we may have to wait a few months before we begin thinking of cauliflowers and hot soups, but this recipe is most inviting and the photos even more so! Thanks!
Tadka Pasta
Those are gorgeous photos. Love them all, Kankana!!
Kala
This looks and sounds ever so delicious. Especially now it's so cold outside.
Sandra's Easy Cooking
I love cauliflower but only fresh:) however that soup look and sound amazing Kankana. I think you did better than just good on those photos, very very professional and I have to say I like your much better!!!
Hope you are alright my friend?! Have a wonderful weekend!!!
Kiran @ KiranTarun.com
Are you kidding me? You did a great job with the styling's!!! Lovely bowl of soup and gorgeous photos, Kankana 🙂
Shumaila
The pics might not be similar but I still love your version! Love the red hues. You are doing wonders in your photography and styling! Thanks for sharing the tips on how you created those effects. ANd the soup looks delicious:)
erin @ yummy supper
Hey Kankana, what a fun challenge! I bet that was a hard project to recreate that Donna Hay pic. I'm glad you shared with us.
I have to tell you that I really liked your series with the red accents. The red pot is an especially good prop, especially with such a neutral colored soup. I think the last image is my favorite.
-Erin
Soni
Beautiful and great pics as always Kankana!I love the way you described in detail how you had to create the effects while taking the pics.The soup looks delicious and has just the perfect consistency for a warm, cozy comforting, feeling.Have a great weekend 🙂
Priya
What a wonderful challenge to take up! I love your shots and the pop of red makes it even better. I think the use of earthier colors and textures convey the warm, cozy dinner feel a lot better than in the original 🙂 I'm glad I found this post because you have now inspired me to challenge myself too.
Amrita (Beetle's Kitchen Escapades)
Stunning pictures! And I was planning to make this soup for dinner today and saw your post here...coincidence? 🙂
Simone
Yeah! I'm so glad you participated in the challenge Kankana! And truth be told I LOVE your second photo in the red pan. I seriously think that is better then the original. As for your take on the original; you should be extremely pleased with yourself. I love the use of the rope around the spoon rather then the blue ribbon and that bit of background coming through works brilliantly too. I am quite impressed with all the results of the challenge this month. Everyones image is different in a way, still resembling the original but all with their own twist! Thanks for joining in!
sukanya
Ohh.its truly beautiful Kankana, loved your last shot, well styled, you should write more often on food photography, will help a lot to newbies like me.
Kalyani
looks delicious and wonderful clicks ..........
Kiri W.
Glorious soup, and wow, any of these pictures would be sort of the Holy Grail to me. Gorgeous, gorgeous photography.
Maureen
This is too beautiful to eat. OMG what lovely photography!