Best 17 Cauliflower Chowder Recipes

BACON-CHEDDAR CAULIFLOWER CHOWDER

Steps:

• Cook bacon in a large skillet and over medium heat, turning occasionally, until crispy, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate with a slotted spoon, leaving bacon grease in the skillet. Crumble bacon when cool to the touch.
• Add celery and garlic to the skillet and cook in the bacon grease until celery is tender, 3 to 4 minutes. Add cauliflower, water, and onion powder; cover skillet to steam cauliflower. Cook, stirring every so often, until cauliflower is tender, about 5 minutes.
• Add milk, 1 3/4 cups chicken broth, and hot sauce. Bring to a boil.
• Meanwhile, whisk flour into the remaining chicken broth in a small bowl and drizzle into the boiling chowder. Add Cheddar cheese and 1/2 of the crumbled bacon. Stir until smooth and cheese has melted.
• Season with salt, pepper, and hot sauce. Ladle into bowls and top with remaining bacon.

CAULIFLOWER AND HAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, cook cauliflower and celery in broth for 4-5 minutes or until vegetables are crisp-tender. Do not drain. Stir in the soup, cream and pepper. , Combine cornstarch and water until smooth; gradually stir into cauliflower mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat. Add ham; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until heated through. Just before serving, stir in cheese. Garnish with parsley.

CAULIFLOWER CLAM CHOWDER (LOW CALORIE)

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a large pot. Add onion; cook and stir until browned, about 10 minutes. Add 1 cup water and carrots. Bring to a boil; cover and cook until carrots are soft, about 10 minutes.
• Combine remaining 4 cups water, cauliflower florets, chicken bouillon, and garlic in a blender; blend until smooth. Pour over the onion and carrots in the pot.
• Stir baby clams and mushrooms into the pot. Simmer until hot, about 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

HAM CAULIFLOWER CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a soup kettle, simmer ham bone in water for 1-1/2 hours. Remove ham bone; set cooking liquid aside. When cool enough to handle, remove meat from bone; discard bone. Return ham to cooking liquid; set aside. , In a saucepan, saute onion and green pepper in butter until tender. Stir in flour, salt and pepper until blended. Gradually add milk. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Add to ham and liquid. Add cauliflower and potatoes. Cook until heated through. Sprinkle with parsley if desired.

CAULIFLOWER CHOWDER

Steps:

• Melt margarine over medium heat in a Dutch oven. Add celery and onion and cook, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes.
• Pour vegetable broth and water into the Dutch oven and bring to a boil. Add cauliflower and potato; return to a boil. Reduce heat to low and let simmer until potato is tender, about 20 minutes.
• Stir red peppers and evaporated milk into the simmering mixture and heat for 2 minutes more. Pour soup carefully into an electric blender or food processor and puree until smooth. Return soup to the Dutch oven and bring to a slow boil, stirring constantly, until thoroughly heated, about 5 minutes more.

CROCK POT HAM & CAULIFLOWER CHOWDER

Steps:

• Steam trimmed whole head of cauliflower with stalk down for about 6 minutes.
• Remove and cool to handle.
• Break off florets and finely dice stalk.
• In cast iron skillet, sauté onion and celery in butter or oil over Medium-High heat until softened.
• Add diced ham and saute 1 minutes.
• Place all ingredients EXCEPT Half and Half and cheddar cheese in crock pot.
• Stir to blend.
• Cook on LOW for 6 hours; extract 2 cups of chowder and add 3 tablespoons potato flakes and puree in blender until smooth; return to crock pot.
• Add Half and Half; and cook 30 mins.to 1 hour.
• Sprinkle individual servings with cheddar cheese, if desired.

CAULIFLOWER HAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, cook the cauliflower in the chicken broth for 4 minutes or until tender-crisp. Stir in cream of chicken soup, half and half and pepper.
• Combine the cornstarch and water until smooth; gradudally stir into cauliflower mixture. Bring to a boil, cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Reduce heat. Add ham; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until heated through. Garnish with chives.

CRAB AND CAULIFLOWER CHOWDER

Steps:

• Place the cauliflower and water in a saucepan and bring to boiling.
• Reduce heat and simmer, covered, about 4 minutes or just until crisp tender. Do not drain. Set aside.
• Melt butter over medium heat and stir in the flour. Cook, stirring for 1 minute.
• Add broth and milk and cook, stirring, until slightly thickened and bubbly.
• stir in the undrained cauliflower, cream cheese, pimiento, parsley, chives and salt.
• Stir over low heat until cream cheese melts.
• Stir in the crabmeat and heat through, then add wine.
• Serve sprinkled with more chives and parsley if desired.
• You can make this ahead and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. Reheat gently and then serve.

HEARTY CORN CAULIFLOWER AND POTATO CHOWDER

Steps:

• CHOWDER:.
• Begin by frying bacon and set aside for use as topping.
• Use some of the bacon grease (enough to coat bottom of pan) to fry onion on medium heat until soft. 5-10 minutes depending how thick or finely you have chopped them.
• Toss in the diced potatoes and half of the chicken stock (1/4 cup), cover pot with lid and cook until soft. Approximately 15 minutes, but could be more or less depending on diced size.
• Reduce the heat to medium-low.
• Mash some of the potatoes with a fork (I usually mash about half of them).
• Push the mashed and the whole potatoes to one side of the pan and drop in the butter to melt. Using your fork, blend in the corn starch while slowing adding the remaining chicken stock to make a gravy -- keep stirring until thickened.
• Raise heat to medium high. Slowly add the milk while stirring contents. Add salt, pepper and hot sauce. Continue gently stirring contents to prevent scorching.
• Once the liquid begins to simmer, add corn, cauliflower, celery and carrot to pot and reduce the heat to low and cover.
• Allow to simmer, for about 1 hour or until cauliflower is soft. Do stir contents about every 15 to 20 minutes to prevent sticking and/or scorching.
• OPTIONAL:.
• Serve topped with cheddar cheese, green onion and bacon crumbles. If you enjoy some heat (spiciness), try using Monterrey Jack cheese.

CAULIFLOWER AND CRAB CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan combine cauliflower, broth, bell pepper and lemon peel. Bring to boiling, reduce heat. Cover and simmer 6 to 8 minutes or until cauliflower is crisp tender.
• Stir together half and half and flour. Stir into cauliflower mixture. Bring to boiling.
• Gently stir in crabmeat. Heat through. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with dill weed, if desired. Serve immediately.

CAULIFLOWER CORN CHOWDER

Steps:

• Microwave cauliflower and corn as directed on packages; set corn aside.
• Pour cauliflower into 1 1/2-quart saucepan; add remaining ingredients except corn. Heat to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat; mash cauliflower slightly with potato masher or fork. Stir in corn; cook and stir 1 to 2 minutes or until hot.

CAULIFLOWER-HAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, simmer potatoes, water, onion and bouillon, covered, for 10 minutes.
• Then, add cauliflower and cook until tender.
• Stir in 2 1/2 cups milk, ham and any seasonings of choice, if desired.
• Bring to boiling point.
• Blend 1/2 cup milk with flour and stir into hot mixture.
• Cook until thickened.
• Serve, and enjoy!

POTATO CAULIFLOWER CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan or Dutch oven, cook onion in hot butter until tender.
• Carefully add broth and potatoes.
• Bring to boiling; reduce heat.
• Cover and simmer for 6 minutes.
• Add cauliflower and return to boiling; reduce heat.
• Cover and simmer for 4 to 6 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
• In a small bowl, whisk half-and-half into flour until smooth; add to soup mixture.
• Cook and stir until mixture is thickened and bubbly.
• Reduce heat to low. Add the shredded cheese, stirring until melted.
• Do not allow mixture to boil.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.

CAULIFLOWER HAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• 1. Boil cauliflower in chicken broth until tender, do not drain.
• 2. Mix together light cream (or 1/2 and 1/2) with condensed potato soup. Add to the cauliflower mixture. Mix water & corn starch together with a whisk; add to the cauliflower mixture.
• 3. Once all combined add in the diced ham and salt & pepper to taste. Cook on low-med for 30 minutes; careful not to scorch.

BACON CHEDDAR CAULIFLOWER CHOWDER

Steps:

• Whisk together flour and 1/4 cup chicken broth in a small bowl then set aside. Cook bacon in a dutch oven or large soup pot over medium heat until crisp. Transfer bacon to a paper towel lined dish and remove all but 1 tbsp of grease from the pot. Add minced onion, celery and garlic to the pot then season with salt and pepper and saute until vegetables are tender, about 4-5 minutes. Note: Since I was using a food processor to shred the cauliflower (you can also use a box grated), I used it to mince the other veggies simply by dropping them in and letting it spin. But mincing and grating by hand totally work, too. Add cauliflower to the pot and stir to combine. Add water, cover, and steam cauliflower until tender, stirring a couple times, about 5-7 minutes. Add remaining chicken broth and milk, turn up heat and bring to a boil. Slowly whisk in flour/chicken broth mixture while stirring, then reduce heat and simmer for 3-4 minutes, until chowder has thickened. Remove from heat and stir in 2 cups of the cheddar cheese until smooth, then stir in half the cooked bacon. Taste and adjust salt, pepper, and/or hot sauce. Serve topped with remaining cheese, bacon, and green onions.

CAULIFLOWER HAM CHOWDER

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, cook the potatoes, cauliflower and onion in chicken broth until tender. Stir in milk, ham, salt, pepper and nutmeg; heat through. Stir in potato flakes; simmer for 5-10 minutes or until soup is as thick as desired. Sprinkle with parsley.

VEGAN BUFFALO CAULIFLOWER CHOWDER WITH HERBED CROSTINI

Steps:

• Set a large soup pot over medium heat. When hot, add the olive oil. Add the onions, carrots, and celery. Saute, stirring occasionally, until tender, 6-7 minutes. Add garlic, smoked paprika, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper. Cook for another minute, stirring frequently.
• Add the vegetable broth, cauliflower, and potatoes. Increase heat to medium high to bring to a boil. Once the mixture is boiling, reduce heat to medium low. Simmer, covered, until the potatoes and cauliflower are tender, 15-20 minutes.
• While the soup simmers, make the crostini. Set the slices of baguette on a baking sheet. In a small bowl, stir together the olive oil, herbs, and salt. Using a pastry brush, generously brush the tops of each slice of bread with the olive oil herb mixture. Broil on high until toasted and golden brown, 2-5 minutes (the time really depends on your broiler. Watch carefully - they can burn fast!)
• Back to the soup! Remove the soup from the heat and let cool just until safe to handle. Transfer 1/2 of the soup, about 4 cups, to a bowl and, using an immersion blender, puree the remaining soup. If you don't have an immersion blender, you can puree 1/2 of the soup in a blender or food processor. Return all of the soup to the pot, mixing the pureed soup and the chunky soup back together.
• Place the soup back on the burner (medium-low heat). Stir in the red hot sauce and the almond milk. If you're sensitive to heat/spiciness, you may want to start with 1-2 tablespoons of hot sauce, then add more to taste. Return to a simmer and stir in the parsley. Taste and add additional salt and pepper if desired.
• Ladle into bowls, serve with assorted toppings, and float a crostini on top of each bowl (or serve alongside).