Cauliflower Soup
Cauliflower is not just for breakfast anymore. Just kidding. It never was. But if it’s a soup like this, maybe it should be.
Shopping List
Cauliflower: 2 cups
Celery: ½ cup chopped
Turnip: 1 medium chopped
Lemon Juice: 1 T
Butter: 2 T
Flour/Arrowroot: 1 T
Bay Leaf: 1
Thyme: pinch
Half & Half: 1.5 cups
S & P: ½ tsp and to taste
Water: 2 cups
Parsley: palm size finely chopped
Preparation
In a pot/ Dutch oven add florets and turnip with water, salt, and lemon juice. Then cook on high boiling 5 minutes. Next reduce heat to medium, cover and cook 15 minutes longer. Then remove florets and turnip but reserve liquid.
In the pot brown butter on medium.
Meanwhile stir in flour to 3/4 reserve liquid and fork blend.
Next gradually add to brown butter and cook on low stirring until thick and smooth.
Then add celery, bay leaves, thyme, S & P, and cream. Next continue to cook slowly stirring until smooth about 10 minutes longer. Then add ½ florets. Simmer.
Meanwhile smash other ½ florets and turnip with potato masher or electric beater. Then add a T of cream. Now add immediately to pot and continue to simmer until heated through.
Finally garnish with parsley. Then enjoy with a crusty toast.
Cauliflower Soup Notes
Who rides its white horse in defense of disease…CAULIFLOWER! Unlike the super colors of other vegetables this snow bird arrives in markets September through November and packs a cruciferous attack on cancer. So, you should still wear white after labor day
Cauliflowers a prize of Polish and Czech cooks.
And those wise guys use it in a variety of dishes and soups. Because it grows best in cooler temperature. While also making a nice edible addition to planters. Its best known variety is white. But it comes in a purple variety too.
In fact, cauliflower and broccoli are known to be flowery crops. Because their grown for their flowery buds. Hence the name florets. They also happen to be relatives of the wild and crazy cabbage family. And that means being delicious!
They are also highly prized for their nutritional value. So, it’s hard to overvalue their healing power. Look for no-spots on either bright green, purple or brilliant white florets.
Because new recipes pop up daily. Sometimes even as ice cream—who would’ve guessed.