Cauliflower & Bacon Soup

A very filling & hearty soup with bacony goodness. Still very lean & healthy for those of us trying to eat well. My kids love this one!

Submitted by Ann Turnbull

Cauliflower & Bacon Soup

A very filling & hearty soup with bacony goodness. Still very lean & healthy for those of us trying to eat well. My kids love this one!
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Serving: 8
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 5 hours
Total Time 5 hours 10 minutes

Ingredients
 

  • 1 cauliflower head chopped
  • 1 leek, white part, chopped
  • 2 teaspoons minced garlic
  • 4 rashers bacon, trimmed of fat & finely chopped
  • 4cups chicken stock (real is best)

To finish--

  • 1/2 cup shaved Parmesan
  • 250ml lite cream

Instructions
 

  • 1. Place cauliflower, leek, garlic, bacon and stock in slow cooker on high for 1 hour and low for about 4 hours or until cauliflower is soft.
  • 2. Blend with stick blender to puree.
  • 3. Add cheese & stir through until melted.
  • 4. Add cream and stir through before serving with sourdough or fresh bread rolls.
  • You can replace leek with onion, cream with lactose free cream (as I do usually) and use cheddar cheese instead of Parmesan.

10 thoughts on “Cauliflower & Bacon Soup”

  1. This was a winner all round! Even my 4 year old loved it 😀 I didn’t add the cheese because we were dipping cheesy garlic bread into it and it was fantastic with out it. Would definitely make again.

  2. I needed to double the stock for this one. Probably because my cauliflower was as big as a Volkswagen Beetle, perhaps? (They were on special at Harris Farm). Tastes good though.

  3. Christine Jones

    Loved it! Made heaps so will be freezing the rest. Will definitely be making it again! I didn’t add the cheese tho cos I don’t like cheese and I used an onion instead of the leek as suggested but it was still yummy without it!

  4. I thoroughly enjoyed this and highly recommend it. I used 2 cauli’s, 1 onion instead of leek (personal choice) and added 2 potatoes, with 2.5 litres chicken stock. It was so yummy and very easy to cook.

  5. This was excellent. So tasty, with an onion instead of leek, plus 2 potatoes added. I will definitely make this a regular soup batch.

  6. Not really a fan, but maybe it was something I did? Found the parmesan kind of just went gunky, tad to garlicky & didn’t really enjoy the texture 🙁

  7. Loved this, used onion instead of leek, and put 1 head of broccoli in as well, was so scrumptious, no parmisan, just cream as I was blitzing

  8. I make this outstanding recipe, tweaking to my likes (eg chillis), and for the first time tried the roasted cauli method. Outstanding!!!! Thanks for this recipe.

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