Catalan Twitter Cookalong

Cream of Cauliflower Soup

Another fun cooking experience: Catalan Cooking has a monthly cookalong on Twitter.
That is how it works: the dates and ingredients are on Rachel’s website (link above). About a week before she reminds all her Twitter followers the time and date of the event. The same happens the day before and on the day. January’s cookalong was cream of cauliflower soup.
homemade stock
Ingredients
 Ingredients:
1 cauliflower
1 white onion
1 slice of bread
milk
water or stock
1 bay leaf
salt
For the garnish:
paprika (smokey or sweet is fine)
olive oil
flaked almonds
Tips:- wheat and diary free version: replace bread for 1 potato or wheat-free bread and milk for rice milk or any diary or lactose free milk.
And that’s how it starts…
The process:
Chop onions finely add them to a large saucepan. You can add either butter or oil (diary-free version) or even water with them.
Fry the onions, in the meantime, wash and chop the cauliflower.
Add the cauliflower to the pan turn the heat down.
Add the stock. Put the lid on the pot. Your cauliflower is now steaming. Add a bay leaf. Add the milk till it covers the vegetable.
Tear the slices of bread up into pieces and add them to the soup.
Fish out the laurel leaf.  Blend the soup it should be creamy, if it’s too thin them cook a bit more till some of the liquid evaporates. If it’s too thick add some more milk, stock or water.
Prepare the garnish:  fry dry the almonds in a dry pan. Drizzle olive oil and sprinkle the paprika. Top with the almonds.
I added some fried onions as well. You could add some fried wild mushrooms and chives.  Delicious!
The next cookalong with be Thurs Feb 17th and will be Joan Roca’s fried squid #cookalong

 

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2 Comments

  1. Crumpeats
    February 19, 2011 / 10:50 am

    I've always wanted to try doing this..I'll have to look for the next one. Do you get tips as you go?

  2. February 19, 2011 / 12:41 pm

    Yes, it can be as interactive as you want. Good fun. You should try it.