Cauliflower and Blue Cheese Soup: Easy Soup Recipe

One of our most viewed soups on Super Souper Ed is our broccoli and stilton soup. Therefore, we have been experimenting with other soups that use blue cheese, and come up with a delicious cauliflower and blue cheese soup recipe that we hope you like. Here is some information about the main ingredients in our cauliflower and blue cheese soup, along with the recipe and how to make this amazing soup yourself.

Using Cauliflower in Soups

If you watch cooking shows on television, then you may have noticed celebrity chefs using cauliflower in a lot of their dishes, and there are many good reasons why they choose this vegetable over others.

First, cauliflower is a versatile vegetable that works well alongside many other flavours. It pairs well with almost any meat, fish, seafood, and vegetable. It is also versatile in the sense that you can cook it in multiple ways, such as boiled, fried, roasted, pickled, and pureed.

Second, it has the ideal consistency for soup. When you blend cauliflower, it creates an exceptionally smooth paste without any grainy bits, if you do it right. It is the way that it purees that makes it an ideal ingredient for making soup.

Also, it is a vegetable that is available all-year-round, as it is seasonal throughout the year. You can check out our charts of seasonal vegetables to find out other seasonal vegetables to pair with your cauliflower that are seasonal at different times of the year.

You should also note that cauliflowers have many nutritional benefits. According to Nutrition Data, cauliflower has no fat, is low in calories, and is a good source of dietary fibre. It is a good source of vitamins, as it contains vitamins B6, B12, B6, K, thiamine, riboflavin, and folates. Furthermore, cauliflower is a source of minerals, including calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, zinc, copper, manganese, and selenium.

Why Does Blue Cheese Work Well with Cauliflower in a Soup?

The other main ingredient of our cauliflower and blue cheese soup is blue cheese, and you may wonder why blue cheese works so well with cauliflower.

While cauliflower has a mild taste that has a nutty undertone, blue cheese has contrasting flavours, such as creaminess and tanginess. It is worth noting that the flavours of different varieties of blue cheese can differ significantly. Blue cheese also contributes to the smooth creaminess of the soup’s texture.

 Cauliflower and Blue Cheese Soup

Preparation time:	10 minutes
Cooking time:	35 minutes
Servings:	4
Vegetarian/ vegan:	Vegetarian: YES   Vegan: NO
Dairy-free:	NO
Gluten-free:	YES

Ingredients for Cauliflower and Blue Cheese Soup

• 2 heads of cauliflower
• 5 oz. / 140 g blue cheese
• 1 small onion finely diced
• 2 sticks of celery
• 1 medium white potato peeled and diced
• 1-litre vegetable stock
• A knob of butter
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 tsp dried parsley
• Salt and black pepper to taste

How to Make Cauliflower and Blue Cheese Soup

1. Chop the end of the stalk from your cauliflower heads and remove the outer leaves.
2. Then, break off the cauliflower florets and dice the remaining stalk.
3. Peel and dice the potatoes, chop the onion, and slice the celery.
4. Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat and add the onions, potato, and celery.
5. Sautee the ingredients for a few minutes, then add the butter and cover with a pan lid.
6. Cook for a further five minutes.
7. Add the vegetable stock and the chopped stalks of the cauliflower.
8. Simmer for 10 minutes and then add the chopped cauliflower florets.
9. Simmer for a further 5 minutes, then add the parsley.
10. Either transfer the mix to a food processor and blitz before returning to the pan, or blitz the mixture using a stick blender.
11. Add the crumbled blue cheese and stir through until most of the cheese pieces are melted.
12. Season the soup with salt and freshly ground black pepper before serving.

Additional Tips for Making the Soup

• It is easy to make this soup in either a pan or a soup maker. If you have not yet bought a soup maker, but you are considering buying one, then you should read our buying guide and product reviews for soup makers.
• You can use any blue cheese you enjoy in this soup. We like stilton.
• This soup will retain its texture and flavour if you are serving it from a catering soup kettle. You just need to multiply the ingredients equally.
• To add more flavour to the soup, try adding a crushed clove of garlic and adding it to the pan at the same time as the onions. Another way of adding flavours is to stir in some chopped chives at the last minute.
• You can serve this cauliflower and blue cheese soup with any bread of your choice, croutons, or a simple drizzle of herb oil over the top.
• If you enjoyed our cauliflower and blue cheese soup recipe, you may also like our cauliflower and broccoli soup and our easy recipe for cauliflower cheese soup.