Yummy Lummy hot and spicy cauliflower and sweet potato soup
Hot and spicy cauliflower and sweet potato soup is a thing. I know cauliflower soup isn’t to everyone’s liking, but the addition of some curry powder, chilli flakes and roasted sweet potato can make a big difference.
This is a Yummy Lummy original recipe.
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I bought all the ingredients from Coles. No, Yummy Lummy is not sponsored by anyone.
Recipe
- 1 Cauliflower
- 1 Sweet potato
- ¼ Brown onion
- 100 grams Streaky bacon
- 1 teaspoon Sesame oil
- 1 teaspoon Sesame seeds
- 1 teaspoon Poppy seeds
- 1 teaspoon Curry powder
- 1 teaspoon Chilli flakes
- 1 teaspoon Iodised salt crystals
- 1 teaspoon Black peppercorns
- 1 Litre Chicken stock
- 2 wedges Blue cheese
- 1 handful Coon® cheese
- 2 dollops Sour cream
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Take a whole cauliflower and break it down into florets. Using a sharp paring knife cut around the core and gently pull the florets off.
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Take a whole sweet potato and cut into 1 cm³ pieces.
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Finely chop ¼ of an onion.
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Slice a rasher of streaky bacon into small pieces.
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Lay out the sweet potato, onion and bacon onto a baking tray and season with sesame oil, iodised salt and freshly cracked pepper along with a teaspoon of dried chilli flakes. Add some sesame seeds and poppy seeds too.
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Cook the sweet potato, onion, and bacon in an oven for one hour at 150 °C/302 °F.
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Cook the cauliflower florets in chicken stock with one teaspoon of curry powder until you can penetrate the stalks with a sharp knife without resistance.
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Drain the cauliflower of most of the stock and then add the sweet potato, onion and bacon to the saucepan with the cauliflower.
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Blend everything with a stick blender until it is relatively smooth. It doesn't have to be super-smooth, you know how I like it rough. Mouthfeel is important.
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Add a few dollops of sour cream and blend.
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Mix through some grated Coon® cheese until it melts.
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Serve the soup with some blue cheese
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Shoot a photograph of the soup.
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Eat the soup and dream of crispy bread that people who don't live a low carb life enjoy and recognise that low carb living has meant less bloating and problems with irritable bowel syndrome.
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Wash the dishes.
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Write the recipe.
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Write the blog post and hope your friends share the post on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
Disclaimer
I have no culinary training nor qualifications. This post is not intended to convey any health or medical advice.
If you have any health concerns about anything you read, please contact your registered medical practitioner.
The quantities are indicative. Feel free to vary the quantities to suit your taste.
I deliberately do not calculate energy for dishes. I deliberately default to 500 Calories or 500,000 calories because I do not make these calculations.
Photographs
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Questions and answers
How much was leftover?
I have enough for probably two more meals.
Did you enjoy the smell of boiling cauliflower in the flat with all the windows and doors closed?
No, it smelt like I was living in the most evil fart. It’s like an evil spirit exists in my flat and it constantly farting. I fear if I light a match to light a candle I will cause an explosion which will destroy the apartment block and wreak havoc across Canberra.
Did the blue cheese make a difference?
Oh boy, did it ever. It made a huge difference and it was fantastic.
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Final thoughts
Do you like cauliflower soup?
What are your favourite winter soups?
What do you like to watch on TV when you’re cooking soup? Today I was watching Babylon 5.
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dear Gaz your article was great i really enjoy and help to have a healthy diet
Thank you very much
Fantastic recipe! I like the humor too: blogging part #2
Thank you very much. I like to inject a little laugh or two in my posts 😂
As soon as I saw the heading for your post I couldn’t believe it Gary – no meat and I laughed, then I see bacon in your soup which I could exclude (as well as the cheese/sour cream now). Glad it was delicious as it sounds it.
Haha thanks Sue. I could have left the bacon out but not the sour cream and cheese 😃
I like cauliflower to munch on raw and cooked all kinds of ways. Your soup sounds good, the only thing I would probably leave out is the poppy seeds and that is just personal taste.
As I brush my teeth after eating a meal with poppy seeds, I wonder why I do it 😂
Another good reason. 😀
😂😂😂
I’m not a cauliflower fan in general, but I do know some others who would enjoy something like this.
Cauliflower seems to be a little divisive, just like Brussels sprouts and broccoli. I like that as I get older, I’m more enamoured by these vegetables.
The addition of the spices sounds lovely, and I just adore sesame oil. Alas, even though I love cauliflower, it doesn’t much like me.
The sesame oil adds such a nice flavour Kirsty.
Yea, I may have enjoyed a little too much cauliflower last night 😱😳
When I see the words hot and spicy to describe something I know that it will be to my taste. Would roasting the cauliflower help?
I did think of that Lorraine. I reckon it would add a nice smoky taste to the soup. I might do it next time.
I don’t mind cauliflower soup, but haven’t cooked it myself so I don’t know the the degree of the evil smell that brings about. I take that it is really evil…
I don’t watch TV when I cook. Usually when I cook, while something is cooking I’ll be chopping up something else or start washing up already. Or just arranging the kitchen 😂
It’s a good thing I live alone Mabel 😂😂😂
I like having the TV on and listening in as I do things in the kitchen. I should start to think about video again. When I did the videos in the past I couldn’t have the TV on.
Hopefully it wasn’t too cold when you opened the window to let everything out 😂
Maybe you should do video again. But sometimes, laziness wins 😂😂😂
It was far too cold today. I don’t think it got above 10 °C all day.
I liked doing the video. I liked learning about editing.
I LOVE cauliflower soup. I use a Jamie Oliver recipe for cauliflower soup and the last time I made it, I took your advice and added some spice to it. Great tip! I don’t watch TV when cooking as it’s practically the only thing I do mindfully.
Cool, thanks, Emma. I did think about roasting the cauliflower too to make this soup but split the difference with the sweet potato.
Did you notice the extra Grammarly commas in the first sentence of this reply? Why do those three words need two commas? 😂