Cauliflower Soup With Stilton Cheese

Name: Cauliflower Soup With Stilton Cheese
Ingredients: 1 medium or 1/2 of a large cauliflower; 1 medium onion; 2 cloves garlic; 1/2 inch piece of ginger, peeled; 2 cups of vegetable or chicken stock. You can use stock granules or cubes; 2 cups milk; Salt and pepper to taste (keep it low salt); 2-3 tbsp. grated Stilton or Danish blue cheese or St. Augur cheese; Chives or onion green for garnish; 1 chopped green chilli for garnish (optional)

Cauliflower and Stilton Cheese Soup

Mamta Gupta

EasyFree From TomatoSideStarterVegetarian

This delicious winter soup is easy to make and it is quite filling. It has very little fat from the skimmed milk and Stilton cheese.

Serves 4-5

Ingredients

1 medium or 1/2 of a large cauliflower
1 medium onion
2 cloves garlic
1/2 inch piece of ginger, peeled
2 cups of vegetable or chicken stock. You can use stock granules or cubes
2 cups milk
Salt and pepper to taste (keep it low salt)
2-3 tbsp. grated Stilton or Danish blue cheese or St. Augur cheese
Chives or onion green for garnish
1 chopped green chilli for garnish (optional)

Instructions

Remove leaves and stalk from cauliflower and discard.
Peel and chop onion roughly.
Place cauliflower florets, onion, ginger, garlic, stock, salt and pepper in a pan and boil for 15 minutes or pressure cook on full for 2-3 minutes. Turn heat off.
Now puree in a blender or by a hand held blender.
Add milk.
Add cheese and give one more whiz of blender, to mix the cheese in well.
Adjust seasoning to taste and heat it well.
Serve garnished with very finely chopped chives or onion greens and green chillies.
Also see Soup Selection.

Notes

If I don't have green chillies, I sometimes add a little drizzle of chilli sauce (not the sweet one) on top of each bowl of soup and give it a little swirl, before garnishing with chives.