Slow cooker ham and cauliflower soup to ward off a cold weekend and help me fill the flat with an assortment of odours ranging from the dreaminess of slowly cooking ham hock to the acrid revolting odours later in the evening which prove why I’m an old bloke who lives alone.
Dedicated to Lorraine Elliott also known as Not Quite Nigella
Lorraine wrote about a pea and ham soup this week
Slow cooker ham and cauliflower soup
As much as I love pea and ham soup, I’m really taken with the flavours and convenience of cauliflower, especially Coles brand frozen cauliflower which comes in bags.
A few weeks ago I used a bag of frozen cauliflower florets from Coles to make a cauliflower mash which worked out really well.
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I bought all the ingredients from Coles.
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Recipe
- 1 Ham hock
- 1 packet Cauliflower
- 1 packet French onion soup salt reduced
- 1 handful Dried black peppercorns Trump-sized hand
- 1 cup Cream
- 1 knob Butter
- 1 bunch Parsley chopped
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In the vessel of your slow cooker add the contents of one bag of snap frozen cauliflower florets, the contents of a packet of salt-reduced French onion soup, a small handful of dried black peppercorns, a cup of water, and the ham hock.
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Put the lid on your slow cooker and turn it on and cook for six hours.
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At the end of the cooking time, remove the ham hock and place it on a large plate. With forks, pull your meat from your bone and put it aside in a warm place, covered so your meat remains moist.
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Transfer the contents of your slow cooker vessel to a large saucepan.
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Put the saucepan onto a heat sauce and turn it on and reduce the liquid a little.
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Stir through some of your pulled pork meat.
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With a stick blender process the cauliflower florets and peppercorns to a smooth purée that has a watery consistency. Add some cream to thicken the soup. Add a knob of butter for fun.
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Transfer the soup to a bowl and garnish with chopped parsley.
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Shoot a photograph and a short video because Google now wants video on recipe cards.
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Eat the meal.
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Wash the dishes (hint, wash as you cook, it makes life easier).
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Write the recipe.
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Write the blog post.
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Hit publish and hope this blog post gets shared on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
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Disclaimer
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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.
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Questions and answers
Why not just copy Lorraine’s pea and ham soup recipe?
Well, I didn’t want pea and ham soup. I really like cauliflower soup and I thought the addition of the ham hock would flavour it really nicely.
When I normally make cauliflower soup I usually make it with some bacon, so the flavours from the ham hock I hoped would intensify that sense of bacon.
French onion soup mix! Really?
Why not? A good cauliflower soup needs some onion to it so why not make it easy on myself and add a packet of French onion soup mix.
It turned out well. It also meant I didn’t need to add any stock, I just used water.
Do you really live alone because your farts are evil?
Haha, cauliflower soup and pea and ham soup really get me going in terms of flatus. If you want to know the smell that evil has, I suggest you cook some cauliflower soup or pea and ham soup.
I live alone because I’m a cranky old man. I’m set in my ways, I like doing my own thing and I have a self-centred way of living.
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Final thoughts
- Do you prefer ham hock meat or bacon in your soup?
- Do you ever add a knob of butter just for fun?
- Do you live alone and why?
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That is a full meal on one plate. All I need is some nice fresh bread to dunk in!
If I wasn’t low carb living, I’d be dunking bread too 😃
This looks fabulous. I can tell you’re in the Southern Hemisphere! It’s over 30 degrees centigrade where I live, and not really soup weather. But this is a wonderful soup recipe!
Yes. I wish it was 30 °C here. I’m not a fan of winter. I’m jealous of your current situation.
For me, sometimes a “bacon base” tastes really good in some soups. Usually, I use some kind of a vegetable oil though for browning onions/vegetables for a soup.
I reckon bacon makes most things better 😃
Cauliflower is my fave soup. I make it quite often. I’ve never used a slow cooker for soup though. More a fast and furious soup chick 😁
I agree, if it wasn’t for the need to extract all the tasty goodness from the ham hock I would not have bothered.
I don’t bother with ham hocks 😜 Clearly, I have shown myself to be a boring, taker-of-short-cuts kinda cook.
You’ve got kids, a husband, and a home to manage. Being a short cut cook is necessary. I’m just an old bloke who lives alone and thinks about food all day 😃
Aww thank you for the shout out Gary!! And this sounds delicious! Love your cauliflower version 😀 I had to laugh at this line, you’re so brutally honest: “why I’m an old bloke who lives alone”. Sounds like a cookbook idea to me no?!
Thanks Lorraine. I’ve started the outline of a book 😂🤣
Ham hock for sure – cheap as chips and adds so much flavour… I like to add knobs of butter for fun and because it adds a bit luxury. Nice recipe and I’d like to try the onion soup mix suggestion.
Thanks Emma. The soup mix made this so much easier and cheaper.
I do like cauliflower soup, but I prefer it without meat, Gary.
Your soup looks delicious.
I think this would taste good without meat too.
Whoa! 👁👁🍃
Do you ever serve your “special” soups at dinner parties just for a good laugh?
Haha, I should but I only cook for myself. I never cook for others.
This batch would be dangerous. I’ve just opened the windows and it’s <5 °C outside. That’s an indication of potency.