I’m attempting a new recipe for every week, this week I wanted a soup! So I scoured the internet for a great soup, I could only find the boring tomato, pea, chicken soup recipes. Bleugh, I wanted something new and interesting. et’s face it, we don’t wake up in the morning craving soup for dinner.. so I typed in vegetable paleo soup, I found this recipe and went on a mad rampage…
I spent the weekend altering little bits of the recipe to make my super simple cauliflower soup recipe, being the un-inventive person I am, I couldn’t think of a ‘fancy’ name for the soup, and quite frankly?
It seemed silly calling it “Cauli-cream soup”.
It doesn’t need a fancy name!
It’s a simple soup doing a simple job. I think I’ve said this sentence at least a dozen times on this site but, I love a good soup.. I really do! They’re so comforting and filling and they’re a fantastic substitute for high carb lunches.
Before I drone on about the long list of healthy reasons you should include soup in your diet.. I wanted to say this whilst soup may not be a craving, it certainly satisfies them. I want to include as many low fat and low carb recipes to this site as possible.
I wanted to be super healthy with this so used a Coconut Flour ,tapioca blend with xanthan gum. It was a lot more hassle then it’s worth let me tell you, but you can buy gluten free flour ready made from tonnes of places, Asda,Tesco, Waitrose and amazon.My paleo adventure still continues and hopefully will for a long time to come, this recipe includes bacon that you can leave out by all means to make it vegan/vegetarian, but it’s super yummy with it in!Remember if you want to try some of my other recipes pop up in the tabs, there’s not a tonne but I’m planning on adding more recipes every week!
- 1 Head Cauliflower roughly chopped
- 3 tbsp gluten free flour
- 2 tbsp unsalted butter
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 medium onion diced
- 2 small carrots diced
- 2 stalks celery diced
- 1/2 pint chicken stock or 1 cube of instant.
- 1 pint warm water
- 4 strips bacon Optional
- Heat a large pan over a medium-high heat, add bacon and cook until brown and crispy, this should take about 6-8 minutes.Then transfer to a paper towel. You can leave these on getting crispy and gorgeous whilst you're preparing your veg.
- The vegetables should be diced to half-inch pieces and added into a large pan, you can use either coconut oil or any other butter alternative to fry off your veggies! This should take around 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in 'cauliflower snow', very finely chopped cauliflower. Whilst that's cooking you can put your stock cube into a large container with your flour alternative and blend with 1 pint of warm water. Whisk until thick and silky, add to your soup and mix until thickened!
- Bring your warm soup to a boil; reduce heat and simmer until no firm vegetable chunks can be felt, about 8-10 minutes; season with salt and pepper, to taste. If the chowder is too thick, add more water as needed until desired consistency is reached.
- Serve immediately, garnished with bacon if desired. *I was naughty and added cheese (non paleo)
Anyway, wrapping this bad boy up… I’ve started again so you’ll see an update for that on Saturday and next Wednesday I’m attending the AirJump media event (It’s a building made out of trampolines!) If you want to keep track of my posts follow me by email sub or by blog lovin”
What are your favourite soups? I’m going to try and Paleo-ize any recipe you can think of!
As always, be good & be healthy,
