This easy soup recipe is bursting with flavour. Combine roasted cauliflower in a blender with stock, coconut milk and a warming curry spice blend. Blitz, and in minutes Roasted Orange Cauliflower Blender Soup with Curry is ready to eat.
If you love curried cauliflower soup, this recipe is for you. You can even have the roasted cauliflower cooked ahead of time. Blender soups are so easy to make.
Have you made blender soups before? Honestly, your family will think you have spent the day in the kitchen. What a great way to produce delicious soups in a matter of minutes.
Easy Roasted Cauliflower Soup is one of our family favourites. With orange cauliflower available at the markets, I thought a new quick and easy cauliflower soup was a great idea.
We also love Easy Roasted Pumpkin Soup too. Can you see a colour theme here?
What is Orange Cauliflower?
I love visiting the markets in the fall. All the colours of the rainbow are right at your fingertips. Harvest is the BEST time of year for all the wonderful ingredients not available all year long.
The fall colours of cauliflower always get my attention. How can you not be drawn to purple and orange cauliflower? Perfect for the holiday dinners, and a must on my Thanksgiving table.
My grandson’s favourite colour is orange, while my granddaughter’s is purple. I have them both covered, now if I could only convince them to eat these fun coloured cauliflowers.
Do you know the story behind orange cauliflower? Saveur calls it an “alien vegetable”. Apparently, it was discovered in Canada in 1970. Woohoo! We are famous for poutine, so being famous for cheddar cauliflower (another name for orange cauliflower) is a feather in our cap.
Orange cauliflower is a genetic mutation that actually has about 25% more beta-carotene than regular white cauliflower. Purple cauliflower along with orange cauliflower have a mild sweet taste. They can be used in recipes just like regular white cauliflower, but these LOOK so cool! The Kitchn has a great article on these coloured cauliflowers.
Orange Cauliflower Soup Ingredients and Directions
With a few simple ingredients, this easy to make blender soup is ready to eat before you know it.
First, you will need a good blender. Here is where I thank my husband for getting me a Vitamix. With the “soup setting” I just place all the ingredients in the blender, and in minutes the soup is hot and ready to eat. SO EASY!
If you don’t have a soup setting, don’t fret. Just blitz your ingredients and warm the soup in a pot. It will still taste YUMMY, with only one extra step.
The best part of this curry cauliflower soup is that you can actually roast the cauliflower in the oven ahead of time (like on the weekend). Everything goes into the blender when you are ready to make the soup.
In fact, you can even make this cauliflower soup ahead of time and heat it when you are ready to eat. You choose what works best for you.
For the actual soup you will need:
- roasted orange cauliflower (one large head)
- coconut milk
- chicken broth
- curry powder
- curry flavoured olive oil (or regular olive oil)
Cut up the cauliflower (saving a few pieces for garnish) and coat with curry oil, season with curry powder, salt and pepper. Roast cauliflower in the oven until tender.
Place the roasted cauliflower in the blender. Pulse to break up slightly, then add ALL the other ingredients. Easy right?
Blitz until smooth. If you have a soup setting choose that. If not, once the soup is to your desired “smoothness” level, pour into a pot and heat.
That’s it! Soup is ready. Fill the bowls and dig in! Homemade soup does not have to be complicated or time-consuming to taste delicious.
Don’t let the harvest season go by without tasting the flavours of fall. Roasted Orange Cauliflower Blender Soup With Curry is a fun way to try a new colour of cauliflower on your table.
What is your favourite cauliflower recipe? Let me know how you like the taste of orange cauliflower.
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Roasted Orange Cauliflower Blender Soup with Curry
Ingredients
- 3 pounds orange cauliflower (1 large head)
- 1 tbsp curry flavoured olive oil (or regular olive oil)
- 1 tsp curry powder (mild or hot)
- 14 ounces coconut milk (1 can...reserve some for garnish)
- 3 cups chicken broth/stock
- salt & pepper (to taste)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400ºF, and line a baking sheet with parchment.
- Wash and cut the cauliflower into pieces (saving a few small florets for garnish). Place in a large bowl.
- Add the olive oil, curry powder, salt and pepper. Mix to combine, and place on the baking sheet.
- Roast for 30 minutes or so until tender.
- When done, remove from oven and let cool for a few minutes. **NOTE** This part can be done ahead of time. Keep the roasted cauliflower in the fridge until ready to use.
- Place the slightly cooled cauliflower in the blender, and blitz slightly to break up.
- Add all the remaining ingredients to the blender. If you have a soup setting, choose this. If not, blitz until you reach your desired level of smoothness.
- Soup is ready to eat at the end of the soup cycle. Alternatively, place your soup in a pot and heat.
- Pour into bowls, garnish with cauliflower and some saved coconut milk.
- ENJOY!
Nutrition Information
Emily Leary
What a delicious recipe! It’s perfect for these chilly days and I’m sure my family will love it, especially if I use orange or purple cauliflower. Such a good idea!
Homemade & Yummy
This would be so pretty with the purple cauliflower…I will have to find one and try it out. This recipe is great for cold rainy days like we are having today.
Eileen Kelly
We love cauliflower and orange cauliflower is also just as popular! Your recipe is just delicious and will be added to the family rotation! It is healthy, easy and delicious!
Homemade & Yummy
I only wish I am able to get this fun cauliflower all year long.
Nicole
Cauliflower is really trending nowadays I saw cauliflower tacos and cauliflower rice and now this! Man, I must really revisit cauliflower and see what Im missing. THis soup looks velvety and delicious!
Homemade & Yummy
Oh now some of those sound fun…we love cauliflower. Such a great veg to work with.
Sharon
Nothing better than a big bowl of creamy soup to get you through the colder months. This looks so good!
Homemade & Yummy
YES…time for focus on ALL the comfort foods for the next several months.
Vanessa Vickery
Loving the look of this soup! Will need to go and find me some orange cauliflower. I have not seen any in Australia before!
Homemade & Yummy
Hope you can find it. This recipe will work just fine with regular white cauliflower.
Julie
Wow! I’ve had purple cauliflower before – it’s all over our farmers markets – but I’ve never seen orange cauliflower before! With blender soup, if you wanted to leave it a little chunky, will the vitamix still heat it? Or does it have to be fully pureed into a thick liquid to heat?
Homemade & Yummy
The soup mode is about 6 minutes…so it will be silky smooth if you use that mode.
Sam | Ahead of Thyme
Curried cauliflower soup sounds amazing!! I love everything made with cauliflower!! And this recipe looks sooo easy, healthy and yummy! Pinning to try this week!
Homemade & Yummy
ENJOY….this is super easy to make. If you have your cauliflower pre-cooked…it makes a quick and easy meal for a busy weeknight.
Nicoletta Sugarlovespices
We buy orange cauliflower every time we see it at the market, including this morning. I find it has a lovely flavor, milder than the white cauliflower. It shines in this soup, which is unbelievably easy, fast and looks so tasty!
Homemade & Yummy
I wish we could have it available all year long. We try to grab it at the market when we can. This soup will also work with regular white cauliflower as well.
Shannon
I love the simplicity of this soup. And it’s convincing me that I might need to splurge on a high end blender! I think it’s so awesome that you can just throw these ingredients in a blender and have a hot soup in no time!
Homemade & Yummy
YES…you need a GREAT blender. I am so happy that hubby decided to splurge on a Vitamix…we never looked back.
Renee Gardner
I could live on hearty, pureed vegetable soups like this one all fall and winter long. It sounds to me like you depend on your blender the way I depend on my stick blender! It’s not exactly the same, but I’m sure I can make it work.
Homemade & Yummy
I have a hand-held blender too…and I use it all the time. LOVE all my kitchen tools…so fun to work with.
Anna Hettick
Such a gorgeous soup! I love the versatility of cauliflower! I’ve seen orange and purple cauliflower in the store before but haven’t purchased it.
Homemade & Yummy
I wish they were available all year…they add such nice colour to recipes.
Shelley
There is just so much I love about this idea! I mean … cauliflower, and all the other great nutrition jam-crammed in here … awesome right off the bat! Plus it requires just a few super-simple ingredients and involves the ridiculously easy blender method (which I am DYING to try)! Oh … and curry … YUM! I’m so inspired – and absolutely craving this for lunch!
Homemade & Yummy
Yup this is a winner in so many areas.
Courtney
I love curried cauliflower soup. I have never seen an orange one before though – I will have to keep my eyes open for them at our farmer’s markets – looks like they give a really nice colour to the soup.
Homemade & Yummy
Yes your best bet on finding this at the market. I wish we could buy them all year long. Hope you give this recipe a try.