Cauliflower Soup

Creamy Cauliflower Soup Deliciously fresh, healthy, creamy together with satisfying together with depression carb too!

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This creamy soup is anything but boring.  Some cauliflower soup recipes telephone cry upwards for copious amounts of cheese or cream which tin mask the sweet, nutty flavor of this wonderful white vegetable.  This soup starts amongst sauteed leeks together with onions.

A pocket-size amount of florets are laid aside together with browned inwards a few tablespoons of butter.  The crisp florets are together with hence tossed amongst white balsamic vinegar together with generously garnished amongst fresh dry reason pepper together with salt.  These picayune gems are spooned on function past times of the creamy fresh soup, together with hence drizzled amongst a picayune fleck of the browned butter together with fresh chives.  This is 1 of those recipes yous volition desire to accept all the way!

Healthy (other than a picayune butter), tasty, creamy (with no cream), hearty together with fresh – promise you’ll relish this every bit much every bit nosotros do!

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Cauliflower Soup

Deliciously fresh, depression carb, creamy (but no cream!) together with satisfying

Course:

Soup

Servings: 6 servings

Author: Tricia

Ingredients

• 
  1
  head of cauliflower
  


• 
  8
  tablespoons
  unsalted butter,
  divided
  


• 
  1
  leek,
  white together with low-cal light-green parts solely halved, washed together with sliced thin
  


• 
  1
  medium sugariness onion,
  sliced
  


• 
  fresh dry reason pepper
  


• 
  sea salt
  


• 
  5
  cups
  water,
  plus some other 1/4 loving cup if needed
  


• 
  1/2
  teaspoon
  white balsamic vinegar
  


• 
  fresh chopped chives for garnish
  

Instructions

1. 
   
   Trim the outer leaves from the caput of cauliflower. Trim some the nub together with take to a cutting board. Remove the tough outer layer of the stalk together with hence spell thin. Set aside.
   
   


2. 
   
   Cut plenty florets (1/2-inch pieces) to generously fill upwards a 1 loving cup measure. Set aside. Cut the remaining cauliflower into 1/2 inch thick slices.
   
   


3. 
   
   In a large saucepan or Dutch oven, add together three tablespoons butter. Heat over medium-low oestrus together with add together the leek, onion together with 1 1/2 teaspoons salt. Cook, stirring often nether the leek together with onion are tender but non brown.
   
   


4. 
   
   Turn the oestrus upwards to medium-high together with add together five cups of water, the sliced nub together with one-half the sliced cauliflower florets. Bring the soup to a boil, together with hence cut the oestrus to a simmer. Cook most xx minutes or until the vegetables are tender. Add the remaining sliced cauliflower, provide to simmer together with function on to fix until the cauliflower is tender together with crumbles easily, 15-20 minutes longer.
   
   


5. 
   
   While the soup is cooking, melt five tablespoons butter inwards a pocket-size skillet over medium heat. Add the reserved 1 loving cup of florets together with fix until they are golden chocolate-brown together with the butter solids are starting to brown. Turn the florets often until done, together with hence take to a bowl using a slotted spoon. Drizzle the browned florets amongst the balsamic vinegar together with generously flavour amongst common salt together with pepper. Do non discard the browned butter every bit yous volition purpose it to garnish private bowls of soup.
   
   


6. 
   
   One the soup vegetables are tender, carefully transfer the hot mixture to a blender. Puree the soup until completely creamy - most 1 minute, depending on the ability of your blender. Pour the soup dorsum into the pot together with oestrus but until simmering. Add a picayune H2O if needed to brand a smoothen creamy soup. You don't desire it to await similar runny mashed potatoes, or survive also thick.
   
   


7. 
   
   Serve inwards private bowls garnished amongst the browned florets, a drizzle of browned butter, common salt together with pepper to sense of savor together with fresh chopped chives.
   
   

Recipe Notes

(Recipe adapted from Cook's Illustrated September, Oct 2013 edition)

 

Thanks hence much for stopping by!   Tricia

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