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    You are here: Home / Cooking Times / a) 30 mins or less / Cauliflower & Potato Soup

    Cauliflower & Potato Soup

    12 February 2015 - By Michelle Minnaar
    This post may contain affiliate links.

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    In the throes of winter, Cauliflower & Potato Soup  is always welcome. Here is something different.

    Vegan soup

    Soup, much like a fried egg, is difficult to get wrong. Unless you use dodgy ingredients or weird combinations, you should be able to come up with something palatable with the help of a stock cube.

    This is the first time cauliflower features on Greedy Gourmet and this is a stunning recipe for you to try if you get a bit bored of my popular Leek and Potato Soup.

    With the help of my Froothie Optimum 9400, it came out silky smooth.

    What makes it so special? The white truffle oil. It’s optional but let me tell you more about this not-used-often-enough ingredient. White truffles are the most expensive variety available thanks to their rarity and unique earthy aroma.

    They are available only two months of the year and sniffed out almost exclusively in Italy, although some have been found in Croatia, Slovenia and France.

    The going rate is $2000-4500 per kilogram and two white truffles were recently bought by recently Celebrity Cruises’ Executive Chef, John Suley, for a whopping €302 000. Celebrity Cruises will be offering a truffle inspired menu to its lucky diners.

    Warming winter soup

    It’s fair to say not all of us could afford truffles at such luxurious prices. A good idea not to lose out on the flavour is by buying white truffle oil. Remember: a little goes a long way.

    If you ever get stuck when it comes to flavour combinations, I can’t recommend these two books highly enough: Culinary Artistry and The Flavour Thesaurus.

    A quick look in these books reveal the following ingredients pair well with: asparagus, bacon, beef, blue cheese, cabbage, cauliflower, celery, chicken, egg, garlic, globe artichoke, mushroom, pork, potato, shellfish and soft cheese. It also works incredibly well in dishes such as pasta, risotto and salads.

    Can you see where I’m going with this? Cauliflower, garlic, potatoes and white truffles. In my first attempt I made a pure cauliflower soup without the potato, which worked but was quite intense.

    The potato gives the soup a bit more weight and balances the flavours handsomely. Add a dash of white truffle oil, toasted almonds and chopped chives and you’ll have a bowl of heaven in front of you.

    Cauliflower Soup with Truffle Oil

    A special thanks to Denby for sending the lovely grey and black soup bowls.

    By the way, if you’re a potato aficionado, check out these boulangere potatoes.

    Recommended Soup Cookbooks

    If you absolutely adore soups like I do, you would love the following cookbooks:

    • Soup for Every Day: 365 of Our Favourite Recipes
    • 200 Super Soups
    • The Soup Book
    • The Soup Bible
    • 500 Soups

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    Potato Cauliflower

    Cauliflower and Potato Soup


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    5 from 5 reviews

    • Author: Michelle Minnaar
    • Total Time: 25
    • Yield: 4
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    Description

    This cauliflower and potato soup is vegan and the two ingredients make this soup brilliantly white. You can omit the potato if you like and make it a pure cauliflower soup.


    Ingredients

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    • 15ml (1 tbsp) vegetable oil
    • 1 onion, weighing about 90g, chopped
    • 2 cloves garlic
    • 1 small cauliflower, weighing around 400g (1 lb)
    • 400g (1 lb), peeled potatoes
    • 750ml (1 1/4 pt) vegetable stock
    • toasted almonds
    • chives
    • truffle oil

    Instructions

    1. Sweat the onions and garlic in the oil.
    2. Add the cauliflower and potato to the pot.
    3. Pour in the stock and simmer until everything is fork tender.
    4. Transfer the contents to a blender and process until smooth.
    5. After dividing the soup into portions, scatter with almonds, chives and truffle oil.
    • Prep Time: 10
    • Cook Time: 15
    • Category: Starter
    • Method: Boil
    • Cuisine: Cuisine

    Nutrition

    • Calories: 149
    • Sugar: Sugars
    • Sodium: 37 mg
    • Fat: 3.7 g
    • Carbohydrates: 26.2 g
    • Fiber: Dietary Fiber
    • Protein: 4.5 g

    Keywords: cauliflower and potato soup, cauliflower soup, cauliflower soup recipe

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    Comments

    1. Rosa

      February 13, 2015 at 8:21 am

      A succulent and comforting soup!

      Cheers,

      Rosa

      Reply
    2. Emily Leary

      February 18, 2015 at 9:01 am

      That looks wonderful. Have aded to my StumbleUpon and Pinterest as really want to try this soon, especially since it’s vegan.

      Reply
    3. Jeanne Horak-Druiff

      February 18, 2015 at 9:10 am

      oooooh, this looks divine! All my favourite flavours in one comforting bowl… Thanks for sharing!

      ★★★★★

      Reply
    4. Jo of Jo's Kitchen

      February 18, 2015 at 1:35 pm

      Gorgeous looking soup. I have never thought of using cauliflower and white truffle oil together. Don’t forget to link it to #SuperSoup on my blog

      Reply
    5. Margot @ Coffee & Vanilla

      February 19, 2015 at 9:37 pm

      Yum! Love the flavours Michelle… much better than my Polish beetroot soup that left me hungry 😉

      ★★★★★

      Reply
    6. Michelle Utterlyscrummy

      February 20, 2015 at 9:01 am

      Delicious looking soup and lovely bowls too. Will definitely add this to our list of soups for lunches 🙂

      Reply
    7. Jan Bennett

      February 21, 2015 at 6:30 am

      This looks sooooo good! Fantastic photos as always Michelle.

      Reply
    8. DANIELLE VEDMORE

      March 27, 2015 at 7:50 pm

      This looks soooo good!

      ★★★★★

      Reply
    9. Renil M. George

      October 09, 2017 at 11:11 pm

      Ufff potato soup. Can it be sweet potato?

      ★★★★★

      Reply
      • michelle

        October 21, 2017 at 10:14 pm

        Sure! Why don’t you have a go and report back 😛 🙂

        Reply

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