cheesy cauliflower soup recipe?

I made some the other day.

Haven't eaten it yet thou. We will be having it tomorrow.

I never follow recipes but I do weight the ingredients and log calories


Onion
1 or 2 clove garlic
1 head cauliflower
1 carrot
1 potato

I first chop an onion and shred some garlic. Dice the potato and carrot.

Fry the onion for two minutes in olive oil, you only need a small amount

Then add the potato, carrot and garlic and stir. Heat over lowest setting with lid on so it sweats, stiring frequently for 5 minutes.

Boil some water and add 1 cube vegetable stock.

Add the cauliflower to the soup and give it a minute. Pour in enough stock to cover the cauliflower but not too much. Leave for twenty minutes. Stock contains a lot of salt so if seasoning, just add pepper.

When cauliflower, carrot and potato are mushy liquidize them.


Now - cheese!

If you're like me the cheese is the best part. This time I used some reduced fat cheddar and emmental. Both bought already grated.
It doesn't taste cheesy enough so I'm thinking of adding a hard powdered cheese with a strong flavour, or just use more regular cheese and spend another 20 mins on the treadmill !!

Anyway return to heat and stir until cheese melted. If you want to add a little 1% milk to thin it out and make it creamier do it now

Ta da....

That's my recipe anyway. It worked out to 85kc per 200ml.

Yum yum

Glad you liked it.

I love soup. It's so good for you and great to eat before a meal, it helps me consume less afterwards.

I made some and didn't follow a recipe. First, I make a roux with the butter, flour, and milk. At the same time, I sautee a little garlic and an onion. Once the roux is bubbling, I add some milk and some chicken stock or broth. (I don't use cream because of the calories, but I do use butter for the flavor). Once the soup mixture starts bubbling, I add the chopped onion and garlic mixture, some pepper, some spices, and then I add in cauliflower florets. I let it cook for a few minutes and then I puree the mixture in my vitamix. I add in more cauliflower florets and let it cook. I taste the mixture and spice/salt it up. I don't add a lot of extra salt to my foods. I do add a touch of nutmeg (an old friend tells me it helps cut the gas). Then, I serve it up with cheese on top.

I served that recipe to company about a year ago (and I don't recall all of the spices I used), and they loved it. Said it was great soup. It wasn't heavy or fattening. The mixture of the milk and the chicken broth/stock was flavorful and lower calorie.