Easy creamy cauliflower soup made dairy-free, gluten-free, healthy, and paleo-friendly!
If you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk.
If you give a man a bowl of cauliflower soup, he’s going to ask for a slice of bacon.
You’re so smart to already have the milk chilled and the bacon crisped because you wouldn’t want to hold out on your favorite mouse…or man.
Two easy recipes in one week? Bananas!
First with the easy lamb curry and now with the cauliflower soup – saving time tastes good!
This soup comes out full of flavor and has a very smooth texture. You can dress it up how you’d like with cheese, ham, bacon or leave it as is.
Don’t fight the cauliflower craze. Embrace it.
Cauliflower seems to work in any way, shape or form….pizza crust, gratin sauce, oven-roasted…no matter how you slice it or dress it up, the vegetable can be incorporated into just about everything. Next thing you know, I’ll be making cauliflower brownies.
If you love creamy soup recipes, also try my Sweet Potato Coconut Curry Soup, Vegan Butternut Squash Bisque, and my Chilled Asparagus and Leek Bisque.
Easy Cauliflower Soup
Ingredients
- 1 large head cauliflower chopped into florets
- 1 large yellow onion chopped
- 5 cloves garlic minced
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk *
- 2 cups low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 3 strips bacon cooked and chopped for serving, optional
Instructions
- In a large pot, heat 2 tablespoon of coconut or grapeseed oil and add the onion. Sauté the onion until it is soft and browned, about 10 to 12 minutes.
- Add the garlic and sauté an additional 3 minutes.
- While the onion and garlic is sautéing, chop the cauliflower into florets and discard the green stems.
- Fill a large pot with a couple of inches of water and insert your steamer*
- Bring water to a boil, add the cauliflower florets and steam covered until the florets are soft when poked with a fork, about 6 to 8 minutes.
- Add the sautéed onion and garlic, steamed cauliflower, almond milk, vegetable broth and salt to a blender (all ingredients except for the bacon) and blend until completely smooth. The texture should come out pillowy, creamy and soft.
- If the soup is not already piping hot coming out of the blender, pour it back into the pot and gently heat to desired temperature, stirring frequently.
- If desired, chop 3 strips of bacon and cook them over medium heat until they crisp up. Serve soup with crisped bacon on top or skip the bacon to make this vegetarian.
Yes to the Taylor Swift reference! Yes to the yummy soup! YES to the bacon on top! YES TO ALL THE THINGS.
Ahem. 🙂
I’m bananas for cauliflower; and crazy for this soup!
I think you’ve discovered the secret to getting my husband to love cauliflower soup (it’s the bacon)! This looks so rich and tasty and I love how simple and quick it is to prepare 🙂
I’m obsessed with cauliflfower, so I’m so glad it’s popping up everywhere 🙂 I’ve been slipping it into everything I can think of for as long as I can think of, so I’m glad you have a recipe where it can shine on it’s own. Looks so so so tasty
I hear Gwen Stefani singing…this …err…soup is bananas B A N A N A S, but bananas is good! oh guy fieri. obviously i’m not feeling very witty at the moment so I’m stealing other peoples lines. Basically this soup looks amazing and I’m kind of hoping you do make cauliflower brownies 😀
Lol on the bacon with cauliflower soup. I LOVE cauliflower soup…so pretty and pale and DELICIOUS.
Julia, this is such a great cauliflower soup! I loved the way you made this soup. Bookmarked!
Love this post! I want nothing more than to eat a big hot bowl of this divine soup right now!! 🙂
The chicken broth in the ingredients does not specify cups or cans? Not sure what to use.
OOPS! Supposed to be 2 cups. I made the change 🙂 Thanks for catching that!