Cauliflower Potato Soup

Why You’ll Love This Recipe 

• It's a wonderful winter warmer
• There's so much flavour from just a handful of ingredients
• It's really easy to make
• It takes a little over 30 minutes to make from start to finish
• The truffle oil elevates the thing to a whole new level

What to Serve with Cauliflower and Potato Soup

Sides

• Crusty bread makes the perfect accompaniment to this soup. Of course, you could take things further and make your own cheesy garlic bread or chia seed bread, both of which would taste fantastic with this soup.
• You could even go for a classic sandwiches and soup pairing. Try this wonderful steak and caramelised onion sandwich or a brie sandwich with chicken, pear and balsamic onions or keep it simple and serve your soup with a hummus sandwich.
• Cheese never fails to please! Add a side of parmesan crisps for a truly special double act. Or serve with a side plate of parmesan parsnips.
• Leave the potatoes out of this soup and instead serve them alongside, in the form of this delicious Boulangere potatoes recipe
• Keep it simple and sprinkle some croutons on top of your soup.

Wine pairing

A smooth, medium bodied white wine would pair very well with a warming bowl of cauliflower and potato soup. Go for something like a Chablis, Chenin Blanc, Soave, Pinot Gris

Variations To This Recipe 

• Add cooked chicken or turkey to your soup to bulk it out and turn it into a more filling soup.
• You can use vegetable stock or, for extra richness, chicken broth. If you want a real hit of richness, add my homemade turkey stock.
• For a richer low salt stock, use a low sodium chicken broth.
• Use any mixture of your favorite herbs for this soup recipe. I’ve gone for chives, but you can use fresh thyme, fresh parsley, oregano, rosemary, mint, marjoram, basil or sage... even wild garlic!
• Add some cream or coconut milk to make this a creamy soup.
• A a few turns of freshly ground black pepper to add a final flourish to your soup.
• Not in a hurry? You could roast the cauliflower in the oven for an even more intense flavor. Simply drizzle with olive oil and roast in baking tray for 30 minutes in the oven. You could also bulk up your soup and roast other vegetables like carrots or parsnips – again, drizzle with olive oil and roast for 30 minutes, or until softened.

Popular substitutions

• If you prefer a milder onion flavor, replace the onion with sliced green onions
• You can use olive oil in place of vegetable oil

Other Sublime Soup Recipes You’ll Love 

Few things can beat a nice warming, soothing soup during the colder months of the year. With that in mind, here are a few fabulous soup recipes for you to try:

• Leek and Potato Soup – a delicious comforting soup that is really easy to make
• Soup maker mushroom soup – this one is extra simple and deliciously creamy. It makes use of a brilliant little kitchen gadget that produces the perfect consistency
• Slimming world butternut squash soup – an extra healthy, super light dish that taste really fresh and invigorating. It's the perfect proof that a soup can be creamy and delicious without being sinful!
• Swede soup – a supremely tasty vegetable soup with flavors that will tantalize your taste buds, including thyme, garlic and nutmeg
• Zucchini and leek soup – another invigorating soup, this one is perfect all year round. It's light, healthy and is packed full of flavor
• Sweet potato and red pepper soup – sweet potato soups are seriously underrated and this is one of my personal favorites. There's something about the combination of sweet potato and red pepper that just works every time!
• Marrow soup – so good for you and so delicious! Marrow is such a humble vegetable and it really delivers the goods in this recipe. Simply divine!
• Wild garlic soup – this is a truly special recipe that makes use of a truly special ingredient. Wild garlic is very underrated and works like a dream as the star ingredient of a soup. Best of all, you can actually forage for it... if you know where to look
• Leek and onion soup – the classic leek and onion soup, what more can you say? So easy to make, almost impossible not to like