Cauliflower soup with mustard croutons

Cauliflower soup with mustard croutons

Cauliflower soup with mustard croutons - These mustard bread garnishes, adjusted from those in Suzanne Goin's moving book Sunday Suppers At Lucques (Alfred Knopf, 2005), are a splendid thing to need to hand and to sprinkle over gratins and servings of mixed greens. On the off chance that you'd rather not make them, you'll require another thing to liven up the soup: a teaspoon of rose harissa or some other flavorful bean stew sauce, whirled into each bowl before serving, would carry out the activity superbly well. 

Serves six. 

Cauliflower soup with mustard croutons

Cauliflower soup with mustard croutons

Ingerdients

• 2 tbsp olive oil 
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• 10g unsalted margarine 
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• 5g thyme sprigs 
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• 20g parsley 
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• Shaved skin of 1 lemon, in addition to ground pizzazz of ½ lemon 
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• 1 substantial onion, peeled and meagerly cut 
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• 2 substantial celery sticks, cut into 3cm pieces 
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• 2 inlet clears out 
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• 1 tsp caraway seeds 
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• Salt and white pepper 
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• 1 huge cauliflower, broken into little florets 
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• 1 huge potato, peeled and cut into 2cm bones 
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• 1.4 liters vegetable stock (or chicken stock for non-veggie lovers) 
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• 2 tbsp hacked chives 
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• For the mustard bread garnishes: 
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• 90g unsalted spread 
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• 3 tbsp Dijon mustard 
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• 3 tsp picked thyme takes off 
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• 3 tsp finely hacked parsley 
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• 150g crustless crusty bread, attacked 1cm pieces 

Cauliflower soup with mustard croutons

Method

First make the bread garnishes. Warmth the stove to 180C/350F/gas check 4. Put the margarine in a medium pot on a medium warmth. When it begins to froth, speed in the mustard, herbs and a quarter-teaspoon of salt, remove the warmth, leave for two or three minutes to cool somewhat, at that point mix in the crusty bread. Spread out on a material lined heating plate and prepare for 12-15 minutes, until fresh. Expel from the stove and put aside to cool. (Any you don't use for this dish, store in a water/air proof holder.) 

For the soup, put the oil and margarine in a substantial pot on medium warmth. Tie together the thyme, parsley and lemon skin (or place them in a tied-up muslin), and add to the dish with the onion, celery, sound leaves, caraway seeds, seventy five percent of a teaspoon of salt and a quarter-teaspoon of white pepper. Cook for eight to 10 minutes, blending frequently, until the point that the onion is delicate however has not gone up against any shading. Include the cauliflower, potato and stock, heat to the point of boiling, lessen to a stew and cook for eight minutes, until the point when the vegetables are cooked yet at the same time have some chomp. 

Utilize an opened spoon to lift 33% of the cauliflower out of the dish – abstain from evacuating any potato – and put aside. Let everything stew away for an additional five minutes, at that point evacuate the herb package and the cove takes off. Utilizing a hand-held blender, or in a nourishment processor, barrage the soup until smooth, come back to the dish and include the saved cauliflower pieces. Blend in the ground lemon pizzazz and chives, and serve, sprinkling the bread garnishes on top ultimately..