CAULIFLOWER SOUP RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

1. 1 tbsp butter (never use margarine or sunflower seed oil to fry with. If your cholesterol is high, just double the olive oil)
2. 1 tbs olive oil
3. 1 onion, chopped
4. 2-4 cloves of garlic
5. 2 tbs Indian curry paste
6. 1 cauliflower broken into florettes, slice the stalk thinly.
7. 1 litre of chicken or vegetable stock
CHICKEN BONES BOUILLON, rich in Glucosamine Chondroitin sulphate...


8. 1/4 cup of yoghurt (Helen says this should be an optional!)

CAULIFLOWER SOUP RECIPE: How it's done

• Heat butter and oil in a large saucepan. Add onion and cook over low heat until soft.
• Add garlic and curry paste.
• Add the thinly sliced cauliflower stalks, and five minutes later the florettes, and stir to coat with the curry paste.
• Add stock and simmer for 15 minutes.
• Liquidise.
• Return to the heat and stir in the yoghurt.
• Add a spoon of fresh thick cream. If you're following all these veg and low meat-fat recipes, all the salads and fruit, your cholesterol may be dangerously low, and need a boost!

What's in cauliflower?

CAULIFLOWER SOUP RECIPE

Whilst I like cauliflower recipes, I find cauli rather bland myself, needing cheese, garlic, curry paste... and next to broccoli, I think it comes off rather second best. Fact or opinion? So I decided to do a little research... yes, cauli is full of good stuff but, in almost every department, broccoli is superior to cauli. More vit C, more vit K and A especially, and more of all the antioxidants like zinc and selenium.

Having said that, a rounded diet should draw from as many sources as possible. Cauli once a month, broccoli every week!

Neither broccoli nor cauliflower have significant fat, and both are high soluble fibre, good for the colon. No more constipation blues! The calories in cauliflower are surprisingly low, only 23 cal. 100g of cauli, about the same as in one square of chocolate! (600 cals in 100g bar)

Next week I'll try a Broccoli and cauliflower soup, a first. BROCCOLI FACTS ...

Cooking cauliflower couldn't be easier, just slice the stalk thinly as above and simmer in a little water for five minutes, and then add the florets and steam on high heat for another five. Try yourself a broccoli and cauliflower soup based on both the above, and a cauliflower salad recipe is dead easy with our Olive Garden Salad Dressing ...

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