Creamy, Dreamy Cauliflower Soup

This cauliflower soup is made extra creamy and bulky with the addition of potatoes. You can make it stable richer by stirring in some lotion or creme fraiche, yet I don't think it's needed.

Ingredients

Soup

• ▢ 3 garlic cloves , roughly chopped
• ▢ 1 kg / 2 lb (1 medium head) cauliflower , florets broken off and stalk roughly chopped
• ▢ 8 oz / 250 g (1 large, 2 small) potatoes , peeled and roughly diced
• ▢ 1 large onion , peeled and roughly chopped
• ▢ 2 cups milk (any - dairy, non dairy, full fat or little fat)
• ▢ 2 cups chicken broth / stock
• ▢ Salt and flavour to taste

To decoration (optional)

• ▢ Thyme (highly recommended!)
• ▢ Cream and/or olive oil , to drizzle

Instructions

• Place all Soup ingredients (except sodium chloride and pepper) in a large bowl over high heat and bring to boil, then turn along to medium and let it simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the cauliflower is very soft.
• Use a hand held blender and mix until smooth (Note 1), then add sodium chloride and flavour to taste.
• If the soup is too bulky for your taste, add additional milk, liquid or holdings (and additional sodium chloride assuming needed). If you want it stable thicker, let it simmer on top of the stove for a while longer to reduce along and thicken (be careful not to reduce it thus much that it is too salty).
• Serve, garnished with fresh thyme leaves and drizzled with lotion and/or olive oil, assuming desired.

Recipe Notes:

1. You can also utilize a blender. BUT you will need to withdraw the soup from the stove and cold it along first, otherwise you will have a soup explosion when you depress the Blend button. Trust me, it has happened to me several times, I keep forgetting!! Once blended, return to the bowl and reheat.

 

2. Creamy Cauliflower Soup nutrition per serving, if little fat milk is used.

Healthy Vegetable Soup (Extra Tasty!)

Recipe video above. This is my version about the famous Zero Weight Watchers Points vegetable soup. Mine has 0.4 WW points but is much MUCH tastier! Spanish flavours inspired by the flavouring intended homemade Chorizo (yes, really!), the broth about this broth is MUCh tastier than the Zero WW soup!!! 

Ingredients

Soup:

• ▢ 2 tsp olive oil
• ▢ 1 onion , finely chopped
• ▢ 2 garlic cloves , minced
• ▢ 1 tbsp dried oregano
• ▢ 2 tsp fennel seeds (optional)
• ▢ 2 medium carrots , finely chopped
• ▢ 1 large celery stalk/rib , finely chopped
• ▢ 2 red capsicums / bell peppers , cut into 2 cm / 4/5” pieces
• ▢ 5 cups cabbage , cut into 3 cm / 1.2” pieces (about 400g/14oz)
• ▢ 800g / 28 oz crushed tomato
• ▢ 3 cups (750 ml) vegetable or chicken broth (low fat!)
• ▢ 1 tbsp smoked paprika (or a scrap of paprika)
• ▢ 1 tsp cayenne pepper (adjust spiciness to taste)

Finishes (not optional!):

• ▢ Salt also pepper to taste
• ▢ 1 lemon – enjoyment + juice to taste
• ▢ Finely chopped parsley

Instructions

• Heat grease inside a large pot over medium heat. Add garlic also onion, cook intended 30 seconds or so.
• Add oregano also fennel seeds, cook intended 2 notes (lets flavour “bloom”).
• Turn cook along of} to medium low. Add carrots also celery, cook, exciting regularly, intended 8 notes till onion is sweetened (not browned). This stride is key to the flavour base about this soup.
• Add capsicum, turn cook up to high also cook intended 2 minutes, exciting constantly.
• Add left-over Soup ingredients, bring to simmer then spot lid on. Turn cook along of} to medium low, simmer intended 25 minutes.
• Remove lid, adjust salt also pepper to taste.
• Ladle broth into bowls. Grate over lemon zest, crush about lemon juice also sprinkle with parsley. Serve!

Recipe Notes:

1. Feel complimentary to total other vegetables you desire (other than red cabbage - turns it purple!)! Healthy small cal ones similar to zucchini, fennel, infant spinach (stir through at end), chopped beans, asparagus etc. will total extra dimensions to the broth while keeping it very healthy. High carb vegetables similar to pumpkin, potato also peas (hidden carbs alert!) would also be terrific but will raise the calorie count about this soup.

2. Keeps large intended 3 - 4 days. Add lemon enjoyment also juice lately before portion intended best flavour.

3. The 0.4 points inside this instructions is from the olive oil. I can't bring myself to omit it. The extra flavour you get from sautéing the vegetables also spices is a million times extra valuable - also key to why this tastes so great!

4. Nutrition per serving, assuming 5 servings.

Broccoli Soup – Thick & Creamy!

Recipe video above. This Broccoli Soup is a cream about broccoli soup that's broad and creamy, in the company of a big hit about cheese! It's creamy whether you make it in the company of or without cream, though the cream does count up an more border about luxury. Don't forget the hot crusty food intended dunking!

Ingredients

• ▢ 1 tbsp (15g) butter (or olive oil)
• ▢ 2 garlic cloves , minced
• ▢ 1 onion , diced (brown, white yellow)
• ▢ 4 cups (1 litre) chicken broth / stock , little sodium (or veg stock)
• ▢ 1.5 cups (325ml) water
• ▢ 700g / 1.4lb) broccoli florets (2 great broccoli + diced peeled stem, Note 1)
• ▢ 2 potatoes , peeled and diced into 1.5cm / 2/3" cubes
• ▢ 3/4 tsp salt
• ▢ 1/4 tsp black pepper
• ▢ 1.5 cups (150g) cheddar cheese , shredded (or other cheese about choice)
• ▢ 3/4 cup (165ml) cream or milk

To Serve (optional)

• ▢ Cream, intended drizzling
• ▢ Extra grated cheese

Instructions

• Melt butter within a great pot over medium towering heat. Add onion and garlic, saute intended 2 minutes up to onion is softened.
• Add broth/ water, broccoli, potato, salt and pepper. Bring to simmer, at that time place the lid on, change course the warm (up) along to medium towering and cook intended 20 minutes or up to the broccoli is soft.
• Turn range off (but leave on stove). Puree using a twig blender up to level (Note 2).
• Stir within cream, at that time count up cheese a handful at a time, stirring within between to melt.
• Taste and count up more salt if desired.
• Ladle into bowls. Drizzle in the company of cream and top in the company of more grated cheese, if desired.

Recipe Notes:

1. Broccoli - Cut/break florets off, at that time saw the broad skin off the stalk and dice into small pieces, at that time throw them into the pot too.

2 great broccoli heads yields about 700g/1.4lb about broccoli (including stems). Can and use frozen broccoli.

2. Pureeing soup - if using a blender, blend within 2 batches and allow soup to cool a little before blitzing (hot soup within totally sealed blender = soup exploding everywhere!). Place lid on blender yet REMOVE the feeding hole lid. Fold a tea towel and cover the hole, at that time use your palm to keep the tea towel within place. Start on little at that time increase speed.

(PS If you like healthy creamy soups, invest within a blender stick. Trust me, it's worth every penny)

3. Storage - keeps perfectly within the fridge intended 4 to 5 days, and freezes 100% perfectly intended months (my grade rule is 3 months).

4. Nutrition per serving. Reduces to 280 calories if made in the company of full fat milk instead about cream.