This soup will make anyone a cauliflower fan! Cream and cheddar cheese finish off this soup and make for a bowl of comfort.
Low carb recipes for the slow cooker can be hard to find, try this cauliflower soup then also try my low carb beef and bacon chili for a great week of meal.s
This post first appeared over at Real Housemoms where I was a contributor.
Cut the carbs with this delicious Slow Cooker Cauliflower Cheese Soup. So good topped with bacon and chives! I am starting my year off low in carbs and sugars. Naturally I am cooking most of my meals in the slow cooker still. This soup tastes like a cross between broccoli cheese soup and potato soup.
How to make Cauliflower Cheese Soup:
- Cut up a head of cauliflower into big chunks, and slice a leek. Add those to the slow cooker along with garlic, pepper and a box of chicken broth.
- Place the lid on the slow cooker and let this cook on low for 6-8 hours.
- When the cook time is done add everything from the slow cooker to a blender. Pulse until smooth. Add this blended mixture back to the slow cooker and then stir in heavy cream and cheddar cheese.
- Top each serving with chives, crumbled bacon and cheese if desired
Love Cauliflower? Try one of these other amazing and cheesy recipes:
- Cheesy Cauliflower Breadsticks – Recipe by i Food Real
- Cheesy Cauliflower Mash -Recipe by The Cookie Rookie
- Cauliflower Mac and Cheese – Recipe by Yellow Bliss Road
- Cheesy Cauliflower Gratin – Recipe by a Spicy Perspective
Try this recipe, even if you’re not cutting carbs, you will see how good low carb food can be!
My husband loved this meal. I thought he would be mad thinking it was potato cheese soup. I will definitely be putting this meal on the menu often!
More great soups here on The Magical Slow Cooker:
- Slow Cooker Ham and Green Bean Chowder
- Slow Cooker Potato Bacon Soup
- Slow Cooker Hashbrown Potato Leek Soup
- Slow Cooker Tuscan White Bean Soup
- Slow Cooker Marie Callender’s Potato Cheese Soup
- Slow Cooker Split Pea Soup
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Slow Cooker Cauliflower Cheese Soup
Equipment Needed:
- Slow Cooker- 6 quart or larger
Ingredients:
- 32 oz. box chicken broth
- 1 head cauliflower cut into chunks green part discarded
- 1 cup diced leeks
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/4 tsp. pepper
- Add this at the end
- 3 cups shredded sharp cheese
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
For Serving:
- salt to taste
- 6 slices of bacon cooked and crumbled
- chopped chives
- additional shredded cheese
Instructions:
- In a 6-quart slow cooker at the chicken broth, cauliflower, leeks, garlic and pepper.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 6-8 hours.
- Add everything from the slow cooker in to a blender, cover and pulse until smooth. Add this back to the slow cooker. Add the shredded cheese and cream, stir. Now add salt to taste. I add about a ¼ tsp.
- Serve topped with bacon, cheese and chives.
- Enjoy!
I also roasted the cauliflower and garlic for extra flavor. I also substituted one cup of fontina cheese as one of the three cups of cheddar. Extra yummy on day two.
Can this recipes cook time be cut down and put in an instapot?
I roasted the cauliflower & garlic cloves in the oven at 400 degrees for 25 min 1st to give added flavor. The extra step adds great depth to this already yummy soup.
Great idea!
So easy, so delicious! Thank you
Hi there! I am wanting to make this, but I have a question! Is the cauliflower hard? I don’t have teeth due to a medical problem, and it’s hard for me to eat vegetables because they are hard to chew! Would this make the veggies softer? Thank you so much!
No, it’s ultra soft. This recipe makes it even softer with the blender. When I’ve had to eat soft foods I make baked potato soup, split pea or ham and beans and I blend them in the blender (even the ham).
no you put in blender….read cooking steps
This soup is absolutely amazing! It’s so easy and flavorful. It makes me want to try all of your recipes! Thank you for sharing.
Can you freeze this soup?
Hi Shelley, I have not tried on this recipe, I apologize.
then don’t comment
Hi! This is my website and I assume she was asking me the question.
I’m loving your recipes! Can you use broccoli in place of the cauliflower?
I have not tried that, it would be worth a try!
I’ve got this recipe going in crockpot right now! I’m always on the hunt for new low carb recipes & this one looks like a winner!
Will definitely make this.
I absolutely love cauliflower and this soup sounds so good. I wonder how it would be if you made it with some of the purple cauliflower? Purple soup?
Will have to make this soup soon!! Looks scrumptious!!
As my husband and I don’t like GARLIC I find I lose interest in any recipes that has it included. Why is it used so much ?
I’ll wager that most people love garlic. I know my husband and I do. Just leave it out of your recipe if you don’t.
Just omit garlic if you don’t like it and add onion or something you do like
It adds a lot to the flavor to a dish If you don’t like garlic cut the quantity in the recipe in half or fourth (depending on the original quantity of the recipe) and you still get the flavor without a strong taste.
I don’t love a strong taste of garlic but it does add flavor. Cut it in fourth,taste it and add more or less. Onions or grated carrots would be good too.