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Gina @ The Passionate Pantry

Cauliflower and Leek Soup

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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Servings: 4 to 6
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 leek washed and chopped roughly
  • 40 g olive oil

  • 800 g cauliflower florets
  • 600 g filtered water
  • 2 tbls veggie stock paste or 600g commercial stock to replace the water/paste

  • 40 g butter

  • 6 sprigs parsley roughly chopped, or more to taste

  • sea salt and pepper to taste

FOR SERVING

  • Basil and Parsley pesto see here with extra olive oil added to make it quite runny
  • Toasted pistachios

Method
 

  1. Place leek and olive oil into TM bowl and chop 3 seconds / speed 7, scrape around bowl
  2. Sauté 5 minutes / Veroma / Speed 1 with MC off
  3. Add cauliflower, water and veggie stock paste (or commercial stock) and cook 15 minutes / 100 / speed 1
  4. Add butter and cook for a further 5 minutes / 100 / speed 1
  5. Add parsley and blend for 1 minute, slowly increasing speed from speed 1 to speed 9 (see safety note above)
  6. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary
  7. Serve drizzled with the basil and parsley oil, and scatter over the pistachios

Notes

Buy a whole cauliflower, cut it into florets, wash and put aside 800g for the soup, and keep the rest in a sealed container in the fridge to add to salads or other cooked dishes during the week … always great to have ready to go. If you don’t have your own veggie stock concentrate, then buy a commercial stock, preferably organic. And if you wish to keep this soup nut free, then use toasted pepitas in place of the toasted pistachios.
SAFETY NOTE
It can be a little scary pureeing hot food in the Thermomix … it does an amazing job, but the noise it creates when doing this can be disconcerting. So there are some basic rules I ALWAYS follow when pureeing hot food:
REMEMBER - you are dealing with a very hot liquid … so always take care
NEVER - overfill the bowl (if you have a lot of soup to puree then split it and do it in two lots … it is still very quick, and you will get a lovely smooth result)
I set my timer for 1 minute (if you puree for any less, the soup will not be as smooth and creamy); I slowly increase the speed from speed 1 to speed 6 taking AT LEAST 15 seconds to do this so that my timer has now counted down to 45 seconds; Once I am on 45 seconds I know I can safely increase my speed to speed 9 and allow the Thermomix to continue pureeing
ALWAYS take your time with pureeing, don’t be in a rush, and enjoy the results