Cauliflower Soup

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I got this recipe from the Pioneer Woman's website. I like most any kind of soup and this one just seemed too odd to pass up. lol I've probably made it 4-5 times already.


1 stick butter
1/2 onion, finely diced
1 carrot, finely diced
1 celery stalk, finely diced
1 to 2 heads cauliflower, roughly chopped
2 tablespoons chopped fresh or dried parsley
2 quarts low-sodium chicken broth or stock
2 cups whole milk
6 tablespoons flour
1 cup half & half
2 to 4 teaspoons salt, to taste
1 generous cup sour cream, at room temperature
In a large soup pot or dutch oven, melt 4 tablespoons butter. Add the onion and cook for a few minutes, or until it starts to turn brown. Add the carrots and celery and cook an addition couple of minutes. Add cauliflower and parsley and stir to combine. Cover and cook over very low heat for 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes, pour in chicken stock or broth. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and allow to simmer.
In a medium saucepan, melt 4 tablespoons butter. Mix the flour with the milk and whisk to combine. Add flour-milk mixture slowly to the butter, whisking constantly. Remove from heat and stir in 1 cup half & half.
Add mixture to the simmering soup. Allow to simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Check seasoning and add more salt or pepper if necessary.
Just before serving, place the sour cream in a serving bowl or soup tureen. Add two to three ladles of hot soup into the tureen and stir to combine with the sour cream. Pour in remaining soup and stir.
 

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I was wondering about the sour cream.
Why couldn't you add it right to the pot? Is there some safety issue with refrigerating sour cream if it is used as an ingredient in something?
 
Thank you Cooksie!!

I most certainly did use the sour cream! LOL I didn't use a tureen. I just put the sour cream in another bowl, tempered it with a couple ladles of the soup and added it to the pot and stirred it in. Off the heat.
 
I was wondering about the sour cream.
Why couldn't you add it right to the pot? Is there some safety issue with refrigerating sour cream if it is used as an ingredient in something?

I don't think it has to do with safety. It's more that when you heat sour cream (over high heat) it tends to break down instead of staying creamy. So you add it after you take it off the heat or over a very, very low heat.
 
Thank you Cooksie!!

I most certainly did use the sour cream! LOL I didn't use a tureen. I just put the sour cream in another bowl, tempered it with a couple ladles of the soup and added it to the pot and stirred it in. Off the heat.

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