Cauliflower Soup & How to Cook Yummily?

The other day I bought another whole, large cauli, and I'm not entirely sure why. :dunno: I have just managed to finish the first one, which was much smaller than the second, so I want to do something different to steaming, like I do with all my vegies....

I was thinking soup, but that would be an awful lot of soup! (I suppose I could freeze it) Does anyone have any good cauli soup recipes?

And for those that cook it often, do you do anything aside from steaming it in water (adding some vinegar to the water is coming to mind, but again, don't know why)?

I make cauliflower and cheese soup...YUM! I love it, but I love most soup!
Anyway I:
Chop an onion fry it off in some butter in your pot.
Chop up the cauli, chuck the cauli in too and stir it around for a bit.
Then I add some stock (chicken or veg usually - Whatever I have in the pantry!) but don't completely cover the cauli, maybe 3/4 cover it.
Let it boil away till it gets soft.
In the meantime, make a cheese sauce (or if you are feeling a bit lazy prepare some packets of cheese sauce!)
Drain some of the stock from the cauli but keep it in case you want to make it runnier.
Blend
Add cheese sauce, add some more stock if you want it runnier
and 'wolla' yumyumyum!!!
Don't know how well it freezes...I always eat all of it lol!!

DH makes it and we can freeze it (coz he makes so much!!)
This is his recipe:

Cauliflower
1l vege stock
1l milk
about 500g grated Cheese
3 onions
2 cloves garlic

chop onion. Fry onion and garlic in olive oil in the pot.
chop cauliflower into peices. add to onion
cover with stock and milk.
boil until cauliflower goes soft.
Puree to consistency.
Add cheese to your liking!

lol sorta sounds the same as above... but mmm so good!

Thanks guys. I just realised from those two recipes that my soup will be quite bland as I am rather off onion and garlic atm (they do terrible things for my morning, noon, and night sickness). :doh: Otherwise, they both look very yummy.

Catherine, for cheese sauce, are you just talking mornay type sauce?

Yep. I just make a roux (butter and flour) and then add milk and cheese, a bit of salt and pepper, that's it!
Also i don't always put onion in it and I don't think garlic would really go with mine (I'm not a huge garlic fan anyway!)

Okay, thanks Catherine. I half made my first ever mornay last week. Unfortunately, I made the second half (Mum did the first bit and I wasn't paying attention!), so all I had to do was add milk and cheese at the end.

I have actually been looking on the web now for other cauli recipes, and have seen a few recipes for cauli and lentil soup, which seem interesting too, as I also bought myself a packet of lentils, or split peas... Or something like that. :redface: Our local Indian place does a wonderful dahl, and I would love to make it for myself.

Haha! Tuna mornay was a staple in our house so I learned to make it a long time ago!!! Cauliflower and lentils would be pretty nice I reckon! Have fun being a kitchen whiz!

Very simple and tasty soup...

Toast some cumin seeds (tablespoon or so) until fragrant
Place the seeds in a bit of muslin cloth
Place the cloth and chopped cauliflower in a pan and cover with chicken stock
Bring to the boil and cook for 12 mins until cauli is tender
Fish out the cloth and blend the soup
Return to the pan and bring back to the boil
Mix a tablespoon of cornflour with cold water and add to the soup
add 300ml of double cream, stir well and simmer for a few minutes to cook the cornflour
then put it back in the blender and run the blender until the soup is velvet smooth
season with salt and pepper to taste

We serve it with pan fried prawns that have been coated with curry powder and salt floating on the top, or little croutons topped with blue cheese.