Cauliflower Cheese Soup
Cauliflower Cheese Soup is one of the BEST soup recipes you’ll ever eat! Seriously, this soup is delicious. It uses fresh cauliflower, carrots, celery, corn, onions, cream of potato soup, cheddar cheese and a secret ingredient! Provolone cheese makes it so cheesy and delicious. It’s the perfect soup for company or if you’re just a soup lover who loves anything warm and comforting.
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Back in the early 2000s, I worked for Dallas Baptist University while my boys and I were going through college. I was based in the College of Adult Education and the Financial Aid office during those years. Both departments had a welcoming tradition, allowing staff to gather and enjoy breakfasts or lunches together at least once a month. It was during one of these gatherings that a colleague recommended visiting this page, which provided resources and tips that helped both students and staff navigate various educational and financial challenges—a particularly valuable tool for many of us balancing work, school, and family.
Our adult education department had a weekend college program so adult students could take Friday evening and Saturday classes and finish their degrees while working. On one occasion our department was bringing different kinds of soups and the Director of the Weekend College brought this delicious soup to the luncheon.
I was not a particularly great cauliflower fan at the time, but this soup was so delicious I asked him for the recipe. (I wasn’t alone, he ended up giving his wife’s recipe to several folks in our department). This soup has delicious flavor, texture and it’s a great way to use up fresh veggies if you have a garden. Cauliflower Cheese Soup is not particularly difficult, nor does it take a long time to make. It also is great reheated for leftovers.
Back in mid January I hosted our Bible Study Fellowship group at my home for lunch. I served this delicious soup along with Potato Cheese Soup, Broccoli, Pear and Pomegranate Salad, Spinach Pomegranate Salad, Creamy Grape Salad, Rapid Rise Italian Herb Bread, Mississippi Mud Brownies and Be My Valentine M&M Cookies. Almost everyone started out with the potato soup but I started encouraging them to try this soup too. Once everyone tasted it they loved it! Cauliflower is NOT so bad! And, it’s certainly scrumptious when combined with all these ingredients. 🙂
If you enjoy cauliflower I strongly encourage you to give this soup a try. This is one of those recipes I’ve never had to fiddle with very much because it’s just about perfect! I think you’ll agree.
Cauliflower Cheese Soup is heavenly.
This delicious soup is not difficult to make. It has a wonderful creamy, cheesy flavor.
Cauliflower Cheese Soup is so tasty served with a loaf of homemade French Bread.
Here’s what I did.
I used these ingredients plus water.
Melt butter in a large Dutch oven or stock pot. Add onions, celery, matchsticks carrots and water. Saute about 5 minutes.
Add cauliflower florets and cook an additional 5 minutes.
Add drained whole kernel corn, cheddar cheese, provolone cheese, milk and two cans of cream of potato soup.
Add salt and pepper. Stir well to combine and heat through until cheese is completely melted.
Cauliflower Cheese Soup is a great soup to serve for baby showers or Ladies’ luncheons.
This soup is very cheesy. The provolone cheese makes this soup awesome!
Garnish with fresh parsley and additional cheddar cheese, if desired.
If you enjoy cauliflower you’ll love it in Cauliflower Cheese Soup.
Here’s the recipe.
CAULIFLOWER CHEESE SOUP
(Recipe from Wayne Davis, Dallas Baptist University)
Cauliflower Cheese Soup
Equipment
- 1 Dutch oven with lid
- 1 sharp knife to cut vegetables
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- 1 can opener
- 1 wooden spoon
- 1 soup ladle
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup water (or more if needed)
- 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup carrots shredded (or matchsticks carrots)
- 1/4 cup celery finely diced
- 1/4 cup onion chopped
- 2 cans cream of potato soup undiluted
- 2 cups 2% milk
- 1 can whole kernel corn drained
- 2 cups cauliflower florets fresh or frozen
- 1 cup sharp cheddar cheese shredded
- 1 cup provolone cheese shredded (or mozzarella cheese)
- 1 tsp. sea salt
- 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
- 1 tsp. fresh parsley minced, for garnish, if desired
- 1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese for garnish, if desired
Instructions
- In a sauce pan, heat first 5 ingredients until vegetables are tender.
- This will take about 3-5 minutes.
- Add cauliflower and cook an additional 5 minutes.
- Stir in remaining ingredients and heat thoroughly until cheeses are melted.
Notes
© Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen
Nutrition
Cauliflower Cheese Soup is great to serve on cold winter nights when you really want something hot to warm you up!
Look at all that cheese. Yum.
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Cauliflower Cheese Soup
Equipment
- 1 Dutch oven with lid
- 1 sharp knife to cut vegetables
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- 1 can opener
- 1 wooden spoon
- 1 soup ladle
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup water (or more if needed)
- 2 tbsp. unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup carrots shredded (or matchsticks carrots)
- 1/4 cup celery finely diced
- 1/4 cup onion chopped
- 2 cans cream of potato soup undiluted
- 2 cups 2% milk
- 1 can whole kernel corn drained
- 2 cups cauliflower florets fresh or frozen
- 1 cup sharp cheddar cheese shredded
- 1 cup provolone cheese shredded (or mozzarella cheese)
- 1 tsp. sea salt
- 1/2 tsp. ground black pepper
- 1 tsp. fresh parsley minced, for garnish, if desired
- 1/2 cup sharp cheddar cheese for garnish, if desired
Instructions
- In a sauce pan, heat first 5 ingredients until vegetables are tender.
- This will take about 3-5 minutes.
- Add cauliflower and cook an additional 5 minutes.
- Stir in remaining ingredients and heat thoroughly until cheeses are melted.