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Quick Cauliflower and Leek Soup Recipe With Optional Haloumi Croutons

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Cauliflower is one of the most versatile vegetables around. You can boil it, steam it, bake it, and roast it. You can use it as an alternative to meat by making cauliflower steaks or cauliflower nuggets. You can rice it and use it in meat sauces, as a replacement for minced meat in tacos, spaghetti, sloppy joes, as a pizza base, or in your mashed potatoes.

And you can soup it.

Instagram nutritionist Jess at JSHealth has a scrumptious cauliflower and leek soup recipe that uses haloumi in a surprisingly new way.


Cauliflower and Leek Soup Recipe is a Quick One Pot Wonder

Creamy, Healthy, Easy Oh My!

Jess says, “Made my OG spiced cauliflower soup this week, but I’ve mixed it up a little and topped it with some panfried halloumi bites. Kind of like croutons but made from cheese… so delish.

Whether you make it with or without the halloumi, I promise you will love this soup. So creamy and so easy to whip together!⁠

Make sure to hit SAVE on this one. ⁠”

The Ingredient List

Serves 4 – 6

  • 3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 leeks, sliced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 tsp curry powder
  • 2 heads cauliflower, broken into florets (I used two small heads)⁠
  • 4 cups vegetable stock, or water (or 2 cubes)⁠
  • Salt and pepper – to your taste⁠ ⁠

To serve (all optional!):

  • 50g halloumi, sliced into small squares
  • Extra virgin olive oil
  • Chilli flakes
  • Dukkah
  • Chopped parsley
  • Sourdough bread ⁠

Step One

Heat the extra virgin olive oil in a large saucepan or crock pot.

Step Two

Add the leeks, curry powder, and garlic to the pan/pot. Season with a large pinch of sea salt and ground black pepper. Sauté for 6-7 minutes or until the leeks are soft.

Step Three

Add in the cauliflower and sauté for 3 minutes. Pour the water or vegetable stock over the top until the cauliflower is just covered. If needed, add a little extra liquid.

Cauliflower and Leek soup steps
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Step Four

Boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 20 minutes.

Step Five

Remove from heat and use a stick blender to blend all ingredients. If you don’t have a stick blender, you can cool slightly and use an upright blender.

Step Six

When the soup is almost ready to serve, pan-fry your haloumi pieces in a little extra virgin olive oil until golden.

Step Seven

Drizzle a little olive oil over the soup and top with Dukkah, chilli flakes, chopped parsley, and haloumi croutons to serve.

Cauliflower and Leek soup steps
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Winter is the perfect season for soup. What better way to warm winter bellies than with a creamy, healthy cauliflower soup? Haloumi crouton? Cheese makes everything better.

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Tina Evans is a complete introvert, an avid reader of romance novels, horror novels and psychological thrillers. She’s a writer, movie viewer, and manager of the house menagerie: three kelpies, one cat, a fish, and a snake. She loves baking and cooking and using her kids as guinea pigs. She was a teenage parent and has learned a lot in twenty-three years of parenting. Tina loves Christmas and would love to experience a white Christmas once in her life. Aside from writing romance novels, she is passionate about feminism, equality, sci-fi, action movies and doing her part to help the planet.

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