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Cauliflower Soup with Lobster Dumplings

By Kate Morgan Jackson

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Add some easy lobster dumplings to cauliflower soup for a perfectly elegant soup supper. Cauliflower soup with lobster dumplings – it’s elegance in a bowl!

Cauliflower Soup with Lobster Dumplings

I am head over heels in love with this recipe, because it looks and tastes so incredibly fancy and elegant and complicated. 

And it definitely IS fancy and elegant, but it definitely ISN’T complicated.  I just love it when that happens.  The soup itself is a simple puree of cauliflower and shallots and chicken broth with just a teeny hit of cream. 

Add some easy lobster dumplings to cauliflower soup for a perfectly elegant soup supper. Cauliflower soup with lobster dumplings - it's elegance in a bowl! Click to TweetThe dumplings are a quick mixture of bread crumbs, a little egg, some chopped fresh tarragon, a hint of soft butter and (here comes the beauty part), just a little bit of chopped up cooked lobster.

The rest of the lobster (and you only need one lobster for every two people in this recipe, so you don’t have to take out a second mortgage to make this) you chop up and divide among the soup bowls.

Cauliflower Soup with Lobster Dumplings
After you puree the cauliflower and chicken broth into a nice smooth soup, you drop in your teeny little dumplings and cook them for about 5 minutes, just enough to make them hold together. 

Then you ladle out the fabulous soup and dumpling mixture over that lobster in the soup bowls.

Cauliflower Soup with Lobster Dumplings
Then you stand back and let the love and adoration and amazement wash over you.  Even though the whole thing took 30 minutes from start to finish.

Important note: I used one steamed lobster to make this recipe for the Southern husband and myself for dinner, and because I am a girl who gives credit where credit is due, I need to tell you that the Southern husband went out in a pretty good-sized snowstorm to fetch the aforementioned steamed lobster.  

So if you are looking for a show-stopper of a soup that is pretty dang easy, you have come to the right place.  Or if you just like lobster.  Or cauliflower.   Or soup!

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Cauliflower Soup with Lobster Dumplings


  • Author: Kate Morgan Jackson
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 25 minutes
  • Total Time: 35 minutes
  • Yield: 6 servings 1x
  • Category: Dinner
  • Method: Stovetop
  • Cuisine: American
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Add some easy lobster dumplings to cauliflower soup for a perfectly elegant soup supper. Cauliflower soup with lobster dumplings – it’s elegance in a bowl!


Ingredients

Soup

  • 4 ounces butter
  • 1 sweet onion, chopped finely
  • 1 head cauliflower cut into florets
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 6 cups chicken broth
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 3 whole lobsters, cooked, meat removed from shell, 1/2 cup tail meat reserved for dumplings, the rest of the meat sliced into bite sized pieces

Lobster Dumplings:

  • 1 1/2 cups bread crumbs
  • 1/2 tablespoon butter, room temperature
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 2 teaspoons chopped tarragon
  • 1/2 cup chopped cooked lobster meat (from the lobster listed above)
  • 1/4 cup milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper

Instructions

  1. Heat butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Add onion and cauliflower and season with salt. Stir the cauliflower until it begins to get tender.
  2. Add the chicken broth and simmer for 20 minutes or until cauliflower is completely soft.
  3. While the cauliflower is simmering, make the dumplings by mixing all the dumpling ingredients together and rolling into small firm balls about 1/2-inch in diameter.  (You can add more milk as needed if you need it to make the dumplings hold together.)
  4. Back at the cauliflower, when it is tender puree the cauliflower mixture until smooth in a blender, or right in the pot with an immersion blender. Add the heavy cream and nutmeg and bring the soup to a simmer.
  5. Add the dumplings and poach them in soup for 3 to 5 minutes.
  6. Divide the remaining lobster meat among 8 soup bowls and pour soup and dumplings on top.
  7. Serve at once!
4847 g771.3 mg35.4 g20.6 g0.5 g18.6 g1.4 g23.5 g226.6 mg

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Recipe adapted from Michael Symon’s Food Network recipe

Kate Morgan Jackson

Hi there!  I’m Kate, and I’m a recipe writer, food photographer and devoted bacon lover.  I started Framed Cooks in 2009, and my mission is to create and share family-friendly recipes that make cooking both easy and fun…yes, I said FUN!  My kitchen is my happy place, and I want yours to be that place too.  And if you make this recipe, I would love you to tag @FramedCooks on Instagram so I can see the deliciousness!as seen in logos

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Published on January 16, 2011

Good for: Christmas/Holidays, Dinner In A Hurry, Dinner Party

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  1. Joanne says

    January 17, 2011 at 12:28 am

    The thing is that when you add lobster to any recipe, it becomes gourmet. Isn't that a fun trick?

    Actually, I love the sound of this soup. You get a good-for you base with a little indulgent lobster. heavenly.

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  2. PoetessWug says

    January 17, 2011 at 1:17 am

    Ha! Ha! The video with the crazy hound was the perfect ending to this…Elegant recipe…"Elegance, meet crazy hound…Crazy hound……CRAZY HOUND!!!….Oops! There he goes again!" LOL

    Reply
  3. Sue says

    January 17, 2011 at 4:09 pm

    Mmm, this sounds wonderful. Cauliflower is the best, but paired with lobster! I love Dixie – she and our Allie would be best friends!

    Reply
  4. LynnieBNC says

    January 17, 2011 at 5:10 pm

    LOL, Dixie would be great friends with our Gracie, also! She tears thru the snow (when we have it here in NC) like a madwoman and eats as much as she possibly can. Me, I'll take the SOUP!!!

    Reply
  5. Anonymous says

    January 17, 2011 at 6:44 pm

    Sounds delish – think I'm gonna have to add some sherry, though!

    Reply
  6. Jennifurla says

    January 17, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    WOWOWOWOW, printed and in queue to make. I LOVe it.

    Reply
  7. Chudex's says

    January 18, 2011 at 2:46 am

    Nice read, thanks for shared, i will post it in my blog coz in here much lobster.

    Reply
  8. ElisabethSpace says

    January 18, 2011 at 9:26 pm

    Oh, wow, your creation looks amazing. I can't believe how badly I'd like to be eating this right now (my desire for instant gratification rarely gets this rabid). I'm wondering if this would be as tasty if I only slightly pureed the cauliflower, as my bf has an odd dislike of creamy soups in general, regardless of the flavors therein.

    Reply
  9. smalltownoven says

    January 19, 2011 at 12:46 am

    This looks and sounds quite fancy simply because of the mention of lobster! Love the flavors.

    Reply
  10. Kate Morgan Jackson says

    January 19, 2011 at 12:55 pm

    Thanks all, sounds like we should have a dog party!

    @ElisabethSpace: I think you should try it! The soup underneath will of course be thinner, but that could be just fine. :)

    Reply

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