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
Aparna
Think all your pictures are really lovely. I like the warm tones in them and the use of grey with the black bowl and browns is beautifully balanced.
nipponnin
Very stylish and very dramatic photos. I like them. Your professional quality photos I'm trying to learn. But is this a natural gift thing? Some have it and some don't?
Vanessa
This challenge sounds like so much fun! And that soup looks delicious.
Alyssa
What a fun challenge. I never thought I liked cauliflower until recently. I love each of your photos. I would love to make my food photography better, I think I'll look into those challenges, it sounds like a lot of fun!
Najla
Superb snaps !!! Love the rustic look you have given ... 🙂
Juliana
Your cauliflower soup looks beautiful...like that you used milk and not cream....much healthy...
I have one cauliflower in the fridge, therefore, this may be a way to go.
Hope you have a great week ahead Kankana 🙂
Irena
Wow, what a cozy post, love it, cauliflower is one of our favorite soups, photos are beautiful, thanks for sharing:)
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Love your exercise in Donna hay styling! 🙂 Great results!! Speaking of soup yum. I never had it before but I can;t shake broccoli soup out of my mind since last night, go figure. Come to think of it I also got cauliflower!! 🙂
Kitchen Belleicious
This rocks! Just beautiful and i love cauliflower. Its not used enough in my opinion! Pinning this one!
Maggie @ kitchie coo
Wow, what a fun challenge! I am going to check this out. I just got my first DSLR and am learning, very slowly, how to use it. Your photos are phenomenal! Nice work. This soup looks darn good too, but I do really love cauliflower! Glad I ran across this post and great to "meet" you!
Elies_Lie
I loves cauliflower and soup at the same time, so it will be a great tiem for me to enjoy it for breakfast or dinner!
Loves ur photos and the way u switch the brown thread in ur spoon 🙂
I do loves food-photography and learn from book and other blog, but never have a courage to challange my self like u did today, congrat for ur great work and courage, keep it up girl! and again... kongratz ont he Foodbuzz top 9 today! YaY! 😉
Sudha
I kept chuckling over the phrase you've used - 'confusing winter' - you do have a way with words,Kankana!And what a marvelous job you've done!The smoky and rustic background lends such an interesting touch to your photos - kudos for all your efforts:)The cauliflower soup looks tempting too - this is new to me,since I've never had cauliflower soup before.Sure calls for a quick try!
tigerfish
Oh how I agree with the confusing winter here! Some nights, a thick blanket keeps us nice and warm while asleep but then chuck the blanket aside on other nights when we actually sweat a little while sleeping. Hmmm.....
Love your creamy cauliflower soup. Again, it's reminding me to get the immersion blender.
Maja
Kankana, this was challenging, but so beautiful! I wish we have something like that here! Your soup looks wonderful, and photos are incredibly lovely!
We have Cauliflower soup this week too, only I added roasted garlic 🙂
a spoonful of yumm
i love the first & second images....so beautiful !
Asmita
What a delicious soup and the photographs are beautiful!!!
Sandra's Easy Cooking
I had some kind of feeling that this will end up on top 9!:))) Pictures are too beautiful, and recipe too tasty & they made great pick!!!:) Congrats again sweetie!
Ira Rodrigues
well done for the challenge!
i love your photos, especially the mood that you created, it very cozy and comfort for the winter.
i always love couliflower 🙂 the chilli flakes really bring alive to both, photo and the soup, bravo!
Dawn
What a beautiful bowl of soup. And it's not really that heavy either. I love this recipe.
Anzz
The styling looks fab..! Great food pics are a class apart and you sure jumped right in the category..! lovely recipe..!
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