Vegan Creamy Cauliflower Soup Recipe with Cashews (oil free)

This creamy vegan cauliflower soup is one of our favorite and go-to soup recipes. It is made with simple ingredients like cauliflower, cashew nuts, and nutritional yeast.

Garnished with roasted sunflower seeds and fresh chopped parsley, to take the soup to the next level. You won't even need roasted cauliflower florets.

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In the cauliflower season, which starts in summer, you can quickly and easily prepare this soup. Cauliflower is one of the versatile vegetables you can use it in puréed in sauces, as cauliflower rice as wings or like here simple as a vegetable in a soup. Perfect to warm up on a cold day.

You won't stand in front of the hot stove for long, and it can be prepared in one pot or even an instant pot. This soup calls your name.

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• Variations
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In the cauliflower season, which starts in summer, you can quickly and easily prepare this soup. Cauliflower is one of the versatile vegetables you can use it in puréed in sauces, as cauliflower rice as wings or like here simple as a vegetable in a soup. Perfect to warm up on a cold day.

You won't stand in front of the hot stove for long, and it can be prepared in one pot or even an instant pot. This soup calls your name.

Ingredient

You only need a few ingredients for this delicious soup and you create a soup that even children will love.

Get the amounts in the recipe card below.

• Head of Cauliflower
• Onion
• Garlic cloves
• Vegetable broth or Vegetable Stock
• Cashews or coconut milk
• Water
• Tapioca starch
• Garlic powder
• Fresh Parsley
• Sea salt
• Black Pepper

Garnish:

Roasted sunflower seeds, opt.

Substitutions

Onion

For the onion, you can either use yellow or red onions. You could also substitute with leek or green onions if you have those on hands.

They add a nice flavor to this creamy soup as well.

Cashews

To make a creamy vegan cauliflower soup, you need to add some cream. In this recipe, I used cashews to add the creaminess.

You can also add coconut milk, white beans or sunflower seeds instead. So you will not need heavy cream, and this makes a healthier version.

Variations

Let us see what you can adjust in this soup to make it for example nut free. This delicious recipe is already gluten free, keto friendly and whole food plant based friendly.

Nut free

Like I mentioned above you can either use sunflower seeds or white beans. You could also use a combination of both as a non-dairy cream.

Lemon Juice

Add some fresh pressed lemon juice to add a lemony hint to your vegan cauliflower soup recipe.

Instruction

Braise the diced onion and chopped garlic in a pot with a sip of water. No need for coconut oil or other oils. Just add some water or veggie broth as soon as the water is evaporated.

Now put all the remaining ingredients except the water, tapioca starch and the cashews into the pot and let it cook until the cauliflower is soft.

In the meantime, blend the cashews in a high speed blender until very creamy. Be careful! When blending, the hot liquid might splash!

Now add the cashew cream and mix with an immersion blender until the desired consistency is achieved.

Let it boil briefly.

Serve it with a topping of your personal preference.

Storage

Yes, you can freeze the cauliflower soup very well.

Since the vegan cauliflower soup does not need any potatoes, you can freeze this recipe very well.

You can store it in the freezer or the fridge in an airtight container. In the fridge, it will last around 5-7 days. In the freezer it will last 2-3 months.

Serving Suggestions

The complex flavors in this soup are sure to please even the most discerning crowd.

For a light meal, try it alone without any extras - but don't forget about all of those heartier options below!

Toppings

Fresh herbs

Roasted pine nuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds or hemp seeds

Kale chips, roasted chickpeas or homemade croutons

Sandwiches:

Serve this soup with Vegan Egg Salad Sandwich, Vegan Reuben Sandwich, Vegan Chickpea Tuna Salad Sandwich.

Bread:

Try out some of my favorite bread recipes, whole wheat baguette, seeded bread, spelt bread. Or try my gluten-free buckwheat bread recipe.

Salad:

Serve it with my favorite potato salad, pasta salad, Caesar Salad or Kale Salad.

Pasta:

Serve this soup as an appetizer with Sun dried Tomato Alfredo, Carbonara, Lemon Pasta.

Tips

Use more or less liquid to adjust the consistency to your preferences

Nutritional yeast is optional, but this gives it a cheesy taste.

If you don't have an immersion blender, you can also use your high speed blender.

Creamy Vegan Soups Recipes

White Chili

Red Cabbage Soup

Split Pea Soup

Creamy Tomato Soup

Gyros Soup

Wild Garlic Soup

More vegan Soup Recipes:

• Serbian White Bean Soup 
• Chili 
• Green Bean Soup 
• Potato Soup 
• Broccoli Cheddar Soup

My favorite Cauliflower Recipes:

BBQ Cauliflower Wings

Buffalo Wings

Honey Mustard Cauliflower Wings

Butter Cauliflower

Whole Roasted Cauliflower

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