1 medium onion 1 carrot 6 cloves of garlic 2 tbsp grated ginger 1 tsp nigela/cumin seeds 1,5 tsp turmeric powder 600g cauliflower 1,5l water 200g silken tofu or white beans 2 tbsp nutritional yeast 2 limes
Topping:
Cauliflower greens Chilli pepper (omit if you don’t want it spicy) Cashews/pistachios/ walnuts
Instructions:
1. Finely chop the onion and carrot. In a pot, sauté the onion with a generous pinch of salt until translucent. Add the carrot and continue cooking until softens.
2. Stir in the crushed garlic, ginger, and cumin seeds, frying for a few minutes until fragrant. Then, add the turmeric and stir for about a minute.
3. Add the cauliflower florets, tofu, and water to the pot. Cover with a lid and simmer for about 15 minutes, or until the cauliflower is tender.
4. While the soup cooks, finely chop the cauliflower greens, red pepper, and nuts. Sauté everything in a pan with salt and pepper for a few minutes.
5. Once the cauliflower is soft, remove the soup from heat and blend until smooth. Return to low heat, add nutritional yeast, squeeze in fresh lime juice and adjust the seasoning to taste.
I struggle with the opposite… Texture is super important to me, and growing up in Eastern/Central Europe, where every meal started with a soup, it was… yeah. I was always the one who only drank the broth. No nokedli, csiga tészta, vegetables, potatoes, meat etc. it was literally just the broth and cracked black pepper. The ONLY ‘soup’ I was willing to eat with things in it was bean soup ‘bab leves’. It’s thick, like a creamy soup, filled with pinto beans (I love them) and Hungarian smoked sausage and gammon… absolutely divine. My grandma used to make it all the time. Me, her and my cousin would compete who ate a big bowl of bean soup the fastest, and the one who finishes first is the winner, the ‘angel’, last in place is the loser, the ‘devil’. I was always the angel because I ate insanely fast, especially bean soup. By the time they finished their first bowl I finished my second, and they weren’t kid sized portions, I always had a huge appetite. Those days… I miss them so much…
Due to jaw surgery that I had a while ago, I was unable to have solid foods or even soft solids for some time.
All my food was made into a very watery liquid, even rice and meat. The soups that I first enjoyed became a nightmare to down. I was unable to drink a soup that was puree. They became a sensory nightmare and completely disgusting.
Now that I can eat solids, I never want a pureed soup, and I don't think I would be able to drink them again without suffering. I will always enjoy my brothy soups with chunks of vegetables and proteins and whatever ingredients are in their chopped form.
I remember being 13 years old doing food tech and making soup in class for the first time and the teacher telling us to blend our soups because it’s much nicer. I was horrified! I asked her if I could leave mine chunky and she said no 🙁 But then I got braces and learned to live with blended soups for after the brace tightenings. That’s the only thing blended soups are good for!
In france, there's a difference between soupe, potee, bouillon, consommé, etc… There's a lot of recipes that have texture like you want it, you just didnt check them
Soup indeed is life! I love it as a smoothie and naturaö as well. My older daughter couldn't stand the different textures in food and I had to puree all her food during her first two years of life. Until today there are certain foods I need to puree so she can eat it.
Ngl, I love soup. Soup is literally my comfort food and I always eat soup when I'm feeling sad, mad or exhausted. And since lately I've been going through a rough patch, my to go phrase is: "Ocupo algo calientito pa' curarme el alma" ( which can be translated to "I need something warm to cure my soul" ) and it always means soup, lol
I personally prefer soup with lots of textures and ingredients, because it's fun and pretty to eat, but ngl, when the last thing you wanna do is to keep breathing, a hot blended soup is what cures my soul ♡
I love your channel and I would of course continue being here because I love the recipes ✨
Just wanted to point out that blended soups ain't that bad and there might be people out there who crave that, hahaha
I like to half-puree them, so theres still chunks, but it also thickens the soup at the same time without having to add anything extra to it. I also cut the ingredients into smaller chunks so I dont have to unhinge my jaw to eat them.
to me this is absolutely DISGUSTING. here the chefs always blend everything. i would not eat . I need all that stuff clearly to be chewed and seen. otherwise you can just buy baby food
In our home, thursday night is soup night – aka use up all left over veg before shopping. My husband isnt the best with different textures and blending it makes it so much easier
Puréed soups makes me gag – they’re just too thick and mushy like baby food 🤢 obviously everyone can eat what they like, but I just will not ever eat soup that’s thick and all one texture
I always make soups into purées because I'm generally sensitive to textures. That way I can enjoy the comfort of a more evenly textured dish. the thing is, to come to the conclusión that you prefer purées and creams over soups, you have to try a lot of soups. So I know that there are still some soups I can enjoy without blending
Hi no hate just out of genuine curiosity, I'm from Ireland and typically for us soup is mostly blended definitely not perfectly so you get little chunks. But then vegetables chopped up in a broth is a stew, is this different from a non blended soup? Thanks for the lovely video.
A lost of western europe plus north americans make fun of boiled soup from asians. I am so happy and surprised when i found a bunch of eastern European cuisines that are very similar to asian cuisine, even the so called exotic dishes and cultural dishes. A lot of asians drink boiled soup too, boiled for at least an hour to bring out the flavour. And have weird food like cold jelly meats. I think its due to our history conquering each other 😅
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Cauliflower Turmeric soup
Ingredients:
1 medium onion
1 carrot
6 cloves of garlic
2 tbsp grated ginger
1 tsp nigela/cumin seeds
1,5 tsp turmeric powder
600g cauliflower
1,5l water
200g silken tofu or white beans
2 tbsp nutritional yeast
2 limes
Topping:
Cauliflower greens
Chilli pepper (omit if you don’t want it spicy)
Cashews/pistachios/ walnuts
Instructions:
1. Finely chop the onion and carrot. In a pot, sauté the onion with a generous pinch of salt until translucent. Add the carrot and continue cooking until softens.
2. Stir in the crushed garlic, ginger, and cumin seeds, frying for a few minutes until fragrant. Then, add the turmeric and stir for about a minute.
3. Add the cauliflower florets, tofu, and water to the pot. Cover with a lid and simmer for about 15 minutes, or until the cauliflower is tender.
4. While the soup cooks, finely chop the cauliflower greens, red pepper, and nuts. Sauté everything in a pan with salt and pepper for a few minutes.
5. Once the cauliflower is soft, remove the soup from heat and blend until smooth. Return to low heat, add nutritional yeast, squeeze in fresh lime juice and adjust the seasoning to taste.
I think everybody should eat their own food and eat how they want to eat it 🌊🥟
True 😂 we're middle eastern and soup to us is liquid not a pure'e
I struggle with the opposite… Texture is super important to me, and growing up in Eastern/Central Europe, where every meal started with a soup, it was… yeah. I was always the one who only drank the broth. No nokedli, csiga tészta, vegetables, potatoes, meat etc. it was literally just the broth and cracked black pepper. The ONLY ‘soup’ I was willing to eat with things in it was bean soup ‘bab leves’. It’s thick, like a creamy soup, filled with pinto beans (I love them) and Hungarian smoked sausage and gammon… absolutely divine. My grandma used to make it all the time. Me, her and my cousin would compete who ate a big bowl of bean soup the fastest, and the one who finishes first is the winner, the ‘angel’, last in place is the loser, the ‘devil’. I was always the angel because I ate insanely fast, especially bean soup. By the time they finished their first bowl I finished my second, and they weren’t kid sized portions, I always had a huge appetite.
Those days… I miss them so much…
Yes!
Story:
Due to jaw surgery that I had a while ago, I was unable to have solid foods or even soft solids for some time.
All my food was made into a very watery liquid, even rice and meat. The soups that I first enjoyed became a nightmare to down. I was unable to drink a soup that was puree. They became a sensory nightmare and completely disgusting.
Now that I can eat solids, I never want a pureed soup, and I don't think I would be able to drink them again without suffering. I will always enjoy my brothy soups with chunks of vegetables and proteins and whatever ingredients are in their chopped form.
….. Tomato soup 🥸
I remember being 13 years old doing food tech and making soup in class for the first time and the teacher telling us to blend our soups because it’s much nicer. I was horrified! I asked her if I could leave mine chunky and she said no 🙁
But then I got braces and learned to live with blended soups for after the brace tightenings. That’s the only thing blended soups are good for!
its like baby food. adults have teeth for chewing
As an eastern European, I swear I thought I hear my grandma "You sad? Soup. You cold? Soup. You heartbroken? Soup"
For me it’s the opposite. Tho to be fair i do have ARFID as well so texture is a big thing for me, but I do not want any chunks in my soup
In france, there's a difference between soupe, potee, bouillon, consommé, etc… There's a lot of recipes that have texture like you want it, you just didnt check them
Those blended soups have their place, as sauces
Soup indeed is life! I love it as a smoothie and naturaö as well.
My older daughter couldn't stand the different textures in food and I had to puree all her food during her first two years of life. Until today there are certain foods I need to puree so she can eat it.
my texture sensitivity really disagrees with that one lol
For me, it is soup (puré) and then there is SOUP 🥰
It's not soup us easter europeans crave. It's ciorba
Ngl, I love soup. Soup is literally my comfort food and I always eat soup when I'm feeling sad, mad or exhausted.
And since lately I've been going through a rough patch, my to go phrase is: "Ocupo algo calientito pa' curarme el alma" ( which can be translated to "I need something warm to cure my soul" ) and it always means soup, lol
I personally prefer soup with lots of textures and ingredients, because it's fun and pretty to eat, but ngl, when the last thing you wanna do is to keep breathing, a hot blended soup is what cures my soul ♡
I love your channel and I would of course continue being here because I love the recipes ✨
Just wanted to point out that blended soups ain't that bad and there might be people out there who crave that, hahaha
Well-said! love texture in my soup.
I like to half-puree them, so theres still chunks, but it also thickens the soup at the same time without having to add anything extra to it. I also cut the ingredients into smaller chunks so I dont have to unhinge my jaw to eat them.
to me this is absolutely DISGUSTING. here the chefs always blend everything. i would not eat . I need all that stuff clearly to be chewed and seen. otherwise you can just buy baby food
I like when creamy soups are pureed, but other than that LEAVE THE SOUP ALONE 😭
Blended, puree type soups are great, serve them with a “crunchy” side like toasted bread, it’s heaven
In our home, thursday night is soup night – aka use up all left over veg before shopping. My husband isnt the best with different textures and blending it makes it so much easier
aren’t you blending it in this video? i don’t get it
Puréed soups makes me gag – they’re just too thick and mushy like baby food 🤢 obviously everyone can eat what they like, but I just will not ever eat soup that’s thick and all one texture
As a Bulgarian… I agree whole heartedly
Yeah, that is not only Eastern Europe. That is Latin American culture and pretty sure also Asian culture. I
I always make soups into purées because I'm generally sensitive to textures. That way I can enjoy the comfort of a more evenly textured dish. the thing is, to come to the conclusión that you prefer purées and creams over soups, you have to try a lot of soups. So I know that there are still some soups I can enjoy without blending
In egypt we blend some soup Types it was never smothiee Lady شربة عدس
Hi no hate just out of genuine curiosity, I'm from Ireland and typically for us soup is mostly blended definitely not perfectly so you get little chunks. But then vegetables chopped up in a broth is a stew, is this different from a non blended soup? Thanks for the lovely video.
I hate blended soup as well. Texture is so much more exciting for me.
i’m pretty sure it’s a stew when it’s broth and chunks, idk ?
I love puréed soups 😅 also like non puréed ones but some are just better puréed
Omg I loved blended soup! I prefer it over chunky soup
I have trouble with textures in my food. Pureeing helps me tremendously. But i get it. You would enjoy dutch "Snert"
I love soup. I eat it for breakfast almost every day. I like all sorts of soup but usually veggies and noodles.
yes, they just don't hit the spot
I didn't cook puréed soup until I was older, we only ate that sort from a can. Our soups growing up were always chunky and full of everything!
A lost of western europe plus north americans make fun of boiled soup from asians. I am so happy and surprised when i found a bunch of eastern European cuisines that are very similar to asian cuisine, even the so called exotic dishes and cultural dishes. A lot of asians drink boiled soup too, boiled for at least an hour to bring out the flavour. And have weird food like cold jelly meats. I think its due to our history conquering each other 😅
I'm with you on this, I despise blended soups. Why are we turning perfectly good soup into slop
How else can you pick out the stuff you don't like?! Lol
my girlie !! 🩷
Turkish soups are the best super versatile and delicious
Im team, whatever im in the mood for, lol.
Like soups such as chicken noodles, gumbo, veggie soup, potato leek soup, and french onion soup. I want textures.
If i want something blended, I'll make tomato basil soup, split pea soup, etc.
Plus, my mom and sister are picky on textures, so it's just easier to say screw it and blend that SOB up.