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Hello glowing bowl of sunshine! This creamy vegan Curried Cauliflower Soup with coconut milk, is infused with Indian spices, ginger and lime. It is simple and easy to make, and can either be made in an Instant Pot or on the stovetop! Healthy and delicious, I think you will love it. With a video!
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Hey friends! Here’s a quick little pot of soup that may come in handy this week! If you are doing vegan January with me, this is the soup for you! And even if you are not, I still think you might like it.
It’s full of healthy produce while not being overly heavy. Creamy, vegan and oh so tasty, this Curried Cauliflower Soup is cozy and warming.
Curried Cauliflower Soup | Video
How to make Curried Cauliflower Soup
It starts with sauteing onion, garlic, ginger, and an apple- for a bit of brightness and sweetness.
You can also make this in your Instant Pot if you prefer!
Chop up a whole head of cauliflower, including the stem and add it to the pot. Add the veggie broth and spices- curry powder, coriander and salt.
Bring it to a simmer, until the cauliflower is tender- then blend it up until very smooth and velvety.
An immersion blender comes in handy here- or use a regular blender, blending in batches.
Then add the final touches. A little coconut milk (or if you prefer, cashew cream or even plain yogurt!) and a squeeze of lime.
Serve the glowing soup in wide bowls and garnish with toasted coconut flakes, cilantro (or scallions) and optional nigella seeds.
You can use the nigella seeds in this celery soup too!
The coconut flakes add such great texture!!! Or feel free to use pumpkin seeds!
Creamy vegan Curried Cauliflower Soup- so simple, healthy and flavorful – I can’t wait to hear what you think of this one!!!
For more meatless soups… take a look at our 25 Most Popular Vegetarian Soups!
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Curried Cauliflower Soup
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 20
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 5 ½ cups ( serves 3-4) 1x
- Category: soup, vegan,
- Method: stove top, instant pot
- Cuisine: Indian
- Diet: Vegan
Description
This Creamy Vegan Curried Cauliflower Soup with coconut milk, Indian spices, ginger and lime is simple and easy to make, and can be made in an Instant Pot (or on the stovetop! Healthy and delicious!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons olive oil, coconut oil or ghee
- 1 onion, rough chopped
- 1 medium-large apple, (gala, honey crisp) rough chopped (and please don’t leave this out!)
- 4–5 garlic cloves, rough chopped
- 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh ginger, rough chopped
- 1 medium head cauliflower, chopped small (slice into 1/2 inch slices, then chop)
- 2 1/2 cups veggie broth (or use water and 2 bullion cubes)
- 2 teaspoon yellow curry powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander
- 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup canned coconut milk (equal parts liquid and solid) See notes for substitutions.
- a squeeze of lime (tablespoon) or orange juice is nice too.
Garnish: Toasted coconut flakes, toasted nigella seeds, cilantro or scallions or sprouts.
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large heavy bottom pot or dutch oven, over medium-high heat. Add onions, saute 2-3 minutes. Add garlic, ginger and apple and keep sauteing, turning heat down if need be, until golden and fragrant, about 4-5 minutes. Add cauliflower, veggie broth, curry powder, coriander, turmeric and salt. Stir.
- Bring to a boil, cover and simmer on low heat until cauliflower is very very tender, about 15 minutes.
- Puree until very smooth- either using an immersion blender or blender (in batches).
- Add the lime juice, and stir in the coconut milk. (I used about 1/2 of a 14-ounce can, both solids and liquid- feel free to add more coconut milk to taste- personally, it felt too heavy using it all-but up to you! If you do add more, you may need more salt.)
- Garnish with a little swirl of coconut milk, toasted coconut flakes, nigella seeds, cilantro leaves (or scallions or micro greens).
Notes
You can substitute 1/2 -3/4 cup plain yogurt for the coconut milk, but then you may not need the lime juice. Or only a little. Yogurt is quite tangy. Taste as you go. 🙂
You could also try subbing a cashew cream. You would for sure need the lime or orange. 🙂
To toast coconut flakesplace them in a dry skillet on the stove, over medium heat, stirring until they turn golden and smell amazing. Throw the nigella seeds into the skillet at the very end, toast 30-60 seconds.
To make in an INSTANT POT:
- Set it to Saute function and saute onion, apple, garlic and ginger in 2 tablespoons oil, until fragrant and golden, about 5 minutues.
- Add broth, all the spices, salt and cauliflower. Stir.
- Set Instant Pot to high pressure for 7 minutes. Manually release. Blend the soup until very very smooth.
- Place back in Instant Pot, and set to warm. Stir in the coconut milk and lime juice. Taste, and serve.
- Garnish with a little swirl of coconut milk, toasted coconut flakes, nigella seeds, cilantro leaves (or scallions or micro greens).
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 3/4 cups
- Calories: 329
- Sugar: 14.7 g
- Sodium: 654.3 mg
- Fat: 22 g
- Saturated Fat: 18.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 32.4 g
- Fiber: 8.1 g
- Protein: 6.8 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
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Sublime! Perfect soup for a fall evening. I know you said don’t omit the apple! I didn’t have one in the house so used a dash of fresh apple cider. It did the trick. Yummy.
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Perfect Fiona!
Five stars from me!
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Thank you for a simple yet unusual cauliflower recipe.
We loved this soup. It was a perfect balance of ingredients and the addition of the apple was genius. The flavours of the apple and cauliflower were delicate and the curry powder gave it a little kick. I used mild madras curry powder but it still worked.
I am always looking for plant-based recipes and this one is definitely going in the family recipe folder!
Glad you enjoyed this Rachel!
Great job on this recipe. Me and my wife were really happy with it. So velvety and packed with flavor! I’ll be making this again, for sure!
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Awesome to hear Fernando!
This soup recipe was excellent! Other than totally forgetting about the lime, I followed the recipe exactly and I didn’t have to adjust the seasonings, which is unusual for me. It also came together rather quickly. I think this will be added to our weekly repertoire!
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Awesome Regan!
Loved this soup. Very yummy.
My daughter and grandchildren who do not like cauliflower also loved it.
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Oh good! Love hearing that!
Wow. I’ve been cooking so many of your recipes for some time now, but this was a first for me. This soup is absolutely gorgeous, and will be repeated like so many of your recipes.
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Thanks Gweneth! So happy you enjoyed this!
Wow this soup is excellent. I love soups and am very critical, this is a keeper for sure. Thanks so much for sharing 🙂
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Thanks Noreen! Appreciated!
Delicious! So flavorful, great texture and healthy too!
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Thanks JT!
I decided to add a cup of barley and give the soup more fiber. Also I added apple sauce for texture. It turned out more like a stew. I. Might try putting it all in the blender next time.
Interesting Arlene!
Truly delicious, my husband and I really enjoyed it!
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Awesome!
Love spice and curry, so went right at this one! Had to add extra broth as I think my cauliflower was too big, so then had to adjust all the seasonings. Ended up adding apple sauce to get the apple flavor back since my cut apple it got diluted with the extra broth. Worked out very well in the end.
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Glad you were able to get it to work!
Delicious! We all loved it, even my 12 year old. Love the complexity the lime added, and appreciate that this wasn’t too heavy handed on the coconut milk. And always a special adoration for recipes where I typically have everything on hand!
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That is the best isn’t it! Glad you enjoyed.