Cauliflower Soup - Cheap And Healthy Recipe
Our 15 year old, Hayley, doesn't like cauliflower served
up as a vege in her dinner but she loves cauliflower soup.
This soup is easy to make but do ensure you keep stirring it
thoroughly towards the end of its cooking as it will be
thick and can easily stick and scorch on the bottom of the
saucepan. I use skimmed milk but the recipe will be
richer if you use full cream milk.
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Ingredients:
1/2 of a good sized cauliflower
2 and 1/2 cups of skimmed milk
2 and 1/2 cups of water
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/3 cup of plain flour
2 teaspoons of stock powder or 2 stock cubes
1/2 teaspoon of nutmeg
salt and pepper to taste
Method:
Chop cauliflower into large florets. Place in large
saucepan with the milk and the water. Gently boil
until cauliflower is cooked. Drain cauliflower and
keep the liquid. Melt butter in a pan, stir in the
flour and cook for about a minute stirring constantly.
Take the pan off the heat and very gradually stir in the
liquid. Return to the stove and gently bring back to
the boil stirring constantly. If your mixture has
turned lumpy don't panic. Just bamix (process) the
liquid until it is smooth. Add the stock powder,
nutmeg, salt and pepper. Chop up the cauliflower into
smaller pieces and add back to the soup. Heat through
gently as this soup may stick to the bottom of the pan.
Serves 6 - 8 depending on your appetite.
Notes:
This is also delicious using broccoli in lieu of
cauliflower. Remember to turn on your extractor fan when
cooking this recipe otherwise the house will have the stinky
smell of cauliflower when your guests arrive. This is
not desirable unless you want to eat all of the soup
yourself.
Food Facts:
Cauliflower belongs to the cruciferous family so it
is a cancer fighting vegetable. It is also a blood purifier
and a laxative. It also contains a high amount of vitamin C,
folate, fiber, and complex carbohydrates. The head of the
cauliflower remains white because the large green leaves
that surround it prevent it from being exposed to sunlight.
Hence, chlorophyll doesn't develop so
therefore no colour forms.
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