Instant Pot Cauliflower Soup
This Healthy Instant Pot Cauliflower Soup is creamy, delicious, and incredibly easy to make. Smoky bits of crispy bacon add another layer of flavor and a perfect cozy soup on cold days.
You may also look at some of the other soup recipes – Creamy Pumpkin Soup Recipe, Homemade Tomato Soup, Healthy Spinach Soup Recipe and Tomato White Beans Soup.
Creamy and Healthy Instant Pot Cauliflower Soup with bacon and Cheese is low carb. I am labeling this as one of the best Cauliflower recipes to date. When there is bacon in a soup, nothing can go wrong, right? One of my favorite soups because it is rich, and creamy yet not loaded with cream or Cheese.
Cauliflower, when cooked, makes the soup naturally creamy. So you can adjust the amount of cream and cheese as per your preference and how rich you want the soup to be.
Another Instant Pot recipe and also a Soup recipe. Honestly, I didn’t want to spam you guys with soup recipes one after another. But this soup turned out to be so amazing, that I had to share here without any delay. It is perfectly creamy, thick, and really satisfying.
Ingredients
This easy Cauliflower Soup needs a handful of ingredients and is very much customizable as per your taste.
- Start with a fresh head of cauliflower, clean, and cut into florets. You could also use frozen cauliflower florets, you can’t get hold of fresh cauliflower.
- I love to use butter to saute Onion and garlic. You can substitute with Olive oil if you prefer.
- Thyme and Bay leaf are the aromatics used. Try adding Parsley or Oregano can also be added. But do not go overboard with herbs.
- Then there is Bacon and it makes everything better.
- Cream and Cheddar helps to thicken the soup. Here is the best part of this Cauliflower Soup. You can adjust the quantity of cream and cheese in the soup as per your taste or calorie requirement. Cauliflower, when cooked, thickens the soup naturally. So you don’t need gallons of cream or cheese to make it thick.
I like to keep little chunks of cauliflowers in the soup rather than a smooth case. Use a hand blender to blend it to a silky smooth consistency.
Healthy Soup
Healthy SoupBeing low on carb, Cauliflower is quite popular among people who are trying to lose weight. It is also an excellent source of Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Dietary Fiber, and other nutrients.
It is also one of those versatile vegetables, that can be used in many different ways. A popular substitute for starchy food items such as rice and potato. One of my favorites is this creamy Cauliflower Coconut Curry.
Because Cauliflower makes this soup naturally creamy, you can totally reduce Cream and/or Cheese as per your preference.
Serve with
This soup is so fulfilling that it can be had as a meal by itself. If you are interested to make a complete keto meal, choose some keto friendly bread or proteins like Rosemary Lemon Chicken Thighs, Tandoori Chicken, Parmesan Crusted Chicken, or Chili Garlic Shrimp.
Other Instant Pot Recipes
CREAMY BALSAMIC CHICKEN AND POTATOES
HONEY GARLIC CHICKEN
SWEET CORN CHICKEN SOUP
GARLIC HERB CHICKEN AND RICE
SWEET POTATO CHICKPEA CURRY
Instant pot Cauliflower Soup ( Step by Step Video at end of the Recipe)
Ingredients
- 1 Medium Cauliflower
- 4 strips Bacon
- 1 tbsp Butter
- 1 medium Onion chopped
- 1 tbsp Garlic (minced)
- 1.5 cups Chicken Stock
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 tspn Dried Thyme or Italian seasoning
- ¼ tspn Chili Flakes
- ½ cup half and half
- 1 cup sharp Cheddar Cheese
- Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- Start with browning the bacon. Set Instant Pot to Saute mode. When hot, add bacon pieces. Cook till they are brown and crispy.
- Remove bacon from the pot, Keep aside. Get rid of extra bacon fat ( we don't want to overpower the soup with bacon flavor)
- Add butter to the pan, followed by chopped onion.
- Saute onion until softened. Stir in minced garlic. Cook for another 30 seconds, until the raw smell, is gone.
- Add Cauliflower florets. Fry it for a couple of minutes.
- When little brown spots start to appear, pour in the stock.
- Add bay leaf, thyme. Season it with salt and pepper.
- Set Instant Pot to the Manual Mode. Close the lid and let it cook on high for 5 minutes. Then let the pressure release naturally for 10 minutes, followed by a quick release.
- When the pressure is completely released, carefully open the lid. Add cream, cheddar cheese, and chili flakes.
- Mix everything and smash a few cauliflower florets with the back of the spatula. Adjust seasoning.
- While serving sprinkle crisp bacon and more cheese if required.
We LOVE this recipe. I often cook it for others and my husband always says “Hey what about us?” He loves it. I also emulsify it nice and smooth then make a garlic cheddar quick bread to have with it. IT’s restaurant quality 10 out of 10.
Every dinner is a story. Thanks for leaving such a sweet feedback Kat. Appreciate if you could rate the recipe.
Had a head of cauliflower that needed to be used, so I looked up cauliflower soup in the instant pot. I did use an immersion blender to make it smooth, but otherwise followed the recipe. So delicious! Had it for lunch with some homemade bread and it was perfect!