It just melts in your mouth !!! This is how you can describe the thick creamy soup made from blended cauliflower. 4 recipes.
Broccoli and Cauliflower Cream Soup: Step by Step Preparation
Broccoli is an ancient cultivated plant in the Mediterranean and the Middle East. It gained popularity in many cuisines of the world, but especially became in demand in Italy and France. It is used for the preparation of many dishes, and sometimes it is the main ingredient. Broccoli inflorescences are boiled, steamed, stewed, fried and even eaten raw. It is perfect for appetizers, meat and vegetable side dishes, fish, eggs, sauces and pie fillings. However, one of its unusual uses is in cream soup. And how to cook it, you can find out below.
Ingredients:
- Broccoli - 250 g
- Cauliflower - 250 g
- Dry white wine - 100 ml
- Garlic - 1 clove
- Nutmeg - pinch
- Heavy cream - 250 ml
- Celery root - 30 g
- Potatoes - 1 pc.
- Unsalted feta cheese - 200 g
- Black pepper salt - to taste
Making a creamy broccoli and cauliflower soup:
- Disassemble the washed cauliflower into inflorescences. Cut the peeled potatoes and celery into strips. Chop the peeled garlic.
- Dip vegetables in a saucepan, pour wine and drinking water. Boil and cook for 20 minutes.
- Transfer the boiled vegetables with a slotted spoon to the bowl of a food processor or blender and chop until smooth. Then return to the pot and boil.
- Pour cream into a saucepan, add nutmeg and season with salt and pepper. Then remove the soup from the stove, cover and leave to infuse for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, boil the broccoli in salted water for about 7 minutes and discard in a colander to drain.
- Pour soup into each plate, put broccoli inflorescences and chopped cheese with 1 cm sides.
Cauliflower cream soup with cheese
Creamy cauliflower soup can be considered an exquisite first course with a pronounced cheese flavor. Since it is the cheese that gives the dish softness, depth and sophistication. And the cooking process turns into an incredibly simple and exciting culinary creation, the result of which is a delicious and mouth-watering delicious soup.
Ingredients:
- Cauliflower - 450 g
- Butter - 1 tablespoon
- Hard cheese - 120 g
- Sour cream - 100 g
- Potatoes - 1 pc.
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Black pepper salt - to taste
- Mustard - 1.5 tsp
Step by step cooking:
- Boil the cabbage disassembled into inflorescences and boil the potatoes cut into pieces until soft.
- Saute the chopped onion and chopped garlic in butter.
- When the potatoes are boiled, pour the broth into a bowl, add the fried onions with garlic and beat the mass with a blender.
- Add sour cream, mustard to the vegetable puree and dilute it with broth to the desired consistency.
- Stir the soup, boil, season with salt, pepper and serve with finely grated cheese, herbs and croutons.
Cauliflower cream soup with chicken
To prepare this soup, you can use not only cauliflower, but also as in the previous similar recipe - broccoli. Since poultry meat is in perfect harmony with these varieties of cabbage, which will suit absolutely any: hams, fillets, thighs.
Ingredients:
- Cauliflower - 450 g
- Onion - 1 pc.
- Chicken breast - 1 pc. double
- Processed cheese - 350 g
- Carrots - 1 pc.
- Celery stalk - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Greens - a bunch
- Black pepper salt - to taste
Preparation:
- Pour chicken fillet with water and put on fire.
- Chop the carrots and celery into large pieces and dip them into a saucepan to the breasts. Add the peeled onion (not chopped) and the garlic cloves. Boil the broth, add the bay leaf and pepper and cook until all ingredients are soft.
- When the food is cooked, discard the onion, garlic, and bay leaf. Transfer the breasts and carrots to a plate. Strain the broth, put the cabbage disassembled on the inflorescences and cook for about 20 minutes.
- After that, punch the finished cauliflower and carrots with a blender until smooth, return to the pan, place on the stove, add grated processed cheese and knead thoroughly so that there are no cheese lumps.
- Bring the soup to a boil, remove from the stove and pour into deep cups, adding chicken meat to each serving. Sprinkle with chopped herbs and serve with toast or baguette croutons.
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