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Cauliflower Lobster Soup

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

Ingredients

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SOUP

  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 1 sweet onion, peeled and chopped
  • 1 head cauliflower cut into florets
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 4 cups chicken broth
  • 2 cups cooked and chopped lobster meat

 

LOBSTER DUMPLINGS:

  • 1 cup bread crumbs
  • 1 tablespoon butter, room temperature
  • 1 egg beaten
  • 1 teaspoon dried thyme, plus extra for garnish
  • 1/2 cup chopped cooked lobster meat (from the lobster listed above)
  • 2 tablespoons milk
  • Pinch each of salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. Heat butter in a large pot over low heat. Add a peeled and chopped sweet onion and florets from one head of cauliflower and stir until the onion starts to get tender.
  2. Add 4 cups of chicken broth and simmer for 20 minutes or until cauliflower is completely soft.
  3. While the cauliflower is simmering, make the dumplings by mixing a cup of breadcrumbs,  half a tablespoon of softened butter, a beaten egg, 1 teaspoon of dried thyme, a pinch each of salt and pepper, 2 tablespoons of milk and ½ a cup of chopped lobster together and rolling that mixture 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.
  5. Bring the soup back to a simmer, add the dumplings and poach them in soup for 3 to 5 minutes.  Don’t worry if they fall apart a little – they will still taste delicious!
  6. Divide the remaining lobster meat among 4 soup bowls and pour soup and dumplings on top.
  7. Serve at once!

Notes

    • Lobster: We use frozen lobster for this recipe when we can find it, but you can also get one lobster and ask your seafood counter to steam it for you, so all you need to do is shell and chop it.

    • Bread Crumbs: We like to use fresh bread crumbs for this recipe (whirl a slice or two of bread in your food processor for instant crumbs) but dried bread crumbs will also work.

Find it online: https://www.framedcooks.com/cauliflower-lobster-soup/