Heart Warming Roasted Cauliflower Soup

If you’re looking for a warming soup for dinner tonight I can highly recommend this Roasted Cauliflower soup. Just delicious!!!

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First step is to roast a medium sized head of cauliflower broken into pieces with 200g of potato, one whole onion sliced, and 5 cloves of garlic, unpeeled. Drizzle the vegetables with olive oil and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon of cumin seeds then pop in a 200 degree Celsius preheated oven for 25 minutes or until cooked tender.

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At the same time add six middle bacon rashes to the oven and cook until crisp.

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Place bacon aside for garnishing.

Reserve one cup of roasted cauliflower and then blitz the rest of the roasted vegetables in a food processor or blender, removing the skin from the garlic first.

Add the purée to a saucepan with half a cup of milk and two cups of low salt chicken stock. Bring to the boil. Turn off the heat and stir through a cup of grated parmesan.

Serve soup divided between four bowls topped with reserved roasted cauliflower and crumbled bacon.

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A New Shade of Vegetable

As you may well know, the secret to healthy eating is to eat a good variety of colours across your fresh fruit and vegetables.  I’m not the healthiest of eaters but I try to encourage my boys to be.  They are quite good at eating vegetables albeit a somewhat limited variety – broccoli, carrot, potato, peas, corn, and a few others if well disguised. So we’re talking green, orange, white and yellow!

So today when I was shopping and saw purple carrots in Coles I was over the moon.  The boys were very excited so we stocked up, and tonight the boys added a new colour to their plate of vegetables. Purple!