Cauliflower Vanilla Soup Recipes

Steps:

• Break the cauliflower into small florets.
• In a large saucepan over medium heat, add the stock and bring it to a simmer.
• Add the cauliflower, sliced onion, and garlic.
• Split the vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds, adding them to the contents of the saucepan.
• (You can discard the empty pod, if you like, but you can also cut it into pieces and put it into an airtight jar of sugar and let sit for three weeks to make vanilla sugar).
• Simmer the soup for 15 minutes or until cauliflower is tender.
• Remove from heat and stir in the heavy cream, then add salt and pepper to taste.
• Pour the mixture into a blender, in batches if necessary, and whir until smooth or to desired texture.
• Serve immediately with good crusty bread.
• Also good garnished with a shaving of Parmesan or Asiago.

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add the onion and garlic; cook, stirring, until they start softening, about 4 minutes. Add the cauliflower, bay leaf, rosemary, 1 teaspoon salt and a few grinds of pepper. Cook, stirring, until the cauliflower starts browning, 5 minutes. Stir in the flour until absorbed, about 1 minute. Add the chicken broth and milk; bring to a boil. Reduce the heat; simmer until the cauliflower is tender, 30 minutes. Remove the bay leaf.
• Working in batches, transfer the soup to a blender and puree until smooth (or puree in the pot with an immersion blender). Return the soup to the pot over medium heat. Stir in the cheese until melted; add up to 1 cup water if the soup is too thick.
• Add the sherry; season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with nutmeg and serve with cheese straws.

Steps:

• Melt 1/2stick of the butter in a heavy pot over medium heat. Then add the onions and cook until translucent, about 3 minutes. Add the carrots and celery, and then stir and cook for a couple more minutes. Throw in the cauliflower. Then stir it around, cover and cook over very low heat for 15 minutes.
• Add the parsley, and then add the chicken broth and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Meantime, make a simple white sauce: Melt the remaining 1/2stick butter in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Then whisk in the flour. Cook for a couple of minutes, and then pour in the milk, whisking to combine. Remove the white sauce from the heat and pour in the half-and-half. Then pour this creamy mixture into the pot. Add 1 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste, and allow the soup to simmer for another 20 to 30 minutes. The soup will thicken slightly but shouldn't be overly thick. Give it a taste and add more salt if needed.
• Now, this is the fun part: To serve the soup, place the room temperature sour cream in the bottom of a soup tureen (a very large serving bowl). Then add the whole pot of hot soup to the tureen.
• Stir gently to combine, and then serve immediately with warm rolls and an appetite for something wonderful.
• You will love everything about this.

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven, combine the cauliflower, carrot, celery, water and bouillon. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 12-15 minutes or until vegetables are tender (do not drain)., In a large saucepan, melt butter. Stir in the flour, salt and pepper until smooth. Gradually add milk. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat. Stir in the cheese until melted, adding hot pepper sauce if desired. Stir into the cauliflower mixture.

Steps:

• In a large pot over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in onion and garlic and cook until onion is translucent, about 5 minutes. Stir in potatoes and carrots and cook 5 minutes more. Pour in chicken broth and bring to a boil. Stir in cauliflower, cover, reduce heat and simmer until vegetables are tender, 10 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Puree in batches in a blender or food processor, or in the pot using an immersion blender. Return to low heat and stir in milk, salt, pepper, nutmeg and sherry. Heat through. Serve garnished with parsley.

Steps:

• Heat 4-5 tablespoons of the oil in a pan, add onion and cook for a few minutes until just golden. Add potatoes, cook 2 minutes more and add water. and milk. Crumble in the stock cubes and simmer stock until potatoes are tender. Place aside to cool.
• Melt the butter and remaining oil deep saucepan, add the crushed garlic, parsley and cauliflower florets. Cook over medium heat for 2 minutes, add salt and pepper to taste, moisten with 3 tablespoons of the hot stock and reduce the heat.
• Put potato mix into a blender or food processor and blend, when processed return to the rinsed out saucepan and add the caulifower mixture and leave for a few minutes for the flavours to blend.
• Serve hot topped with parmesan cheese and parsely.