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Not only do I love, love, love soup, but I also love making chowders using cauliflower. It is nourishing and healing to your digestion, yet is still super thick and creamy.
Creamy Paleo Cauliflower Bacon Chowder
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Author: Melissa Malinowski, ND
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
- ½-1 pound bacon
- 1 medium white onion, chopped
- 3 scallions, chopped
- 3 stalks of celery, chopped
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 large head of cauliflower, core out and chopped roughly
- ½ cup fresh parsley
- 2 cloves of garlic, chopped
- Approximately 3 cups bone broth or filtered water
- 1 teaspoon sea salt
- Fresh herbs of choice for garnish
Instructions
- Cook bacon until crisp.
- Once done cooking, save all the bacon fat and chop bacon into small pieces.
- At the same time as the bacon is cooking, use another pan to boil the cauliflower, onion, celery, and carrots in filtered water, enough to cover the vegetables.
- Once they are fork tender, strain out almost all the water.
- Pour the vegetables and a little of the water, into your blender, vitamix or food processor now also add the fresh garlic, scallion and parsley and some of the water and blend down until very smooth and creamy.
- Add your blended vegetable chowder along with the bacon pieces and all the bacon fat into a large saucepan along with more filtered water and/or the bone broth to desired consistency.
- Stir and let simmer for a few minutes.
- Add salt and your garnishes to taste.
- Enjoy!
- Optional: You can also add a can of coconut milk to make this chowder even creamier, yet still dairy free.
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