Low Carb Cauliflower Soup

The leaves are changing colors the days are getting cooler and your children are back in school. So nice to come home for lunch and have a warm bowl of Low Carb Cauliflower Soup.

Cauliflower Soup

1 small cauliflower
2 tbls butter
1 cup of chopped onion
2 cloves minced garlic
2 stalks celery chopped
1 tps ginger minced
8 cups of chicken stock or broth
¼ tps turmeric
1 bay leaf
½ fresh lime juice
Salt and pepper to taste
Shredded cheese of your choice
Break up cauliflower into small floret pieces make sure you use all the stems. Melt butter in pan add onion, garlic, sauté for 10 minutes. Add celery, fresh ginger sauté for another 5 minutes. Add chicken broth, turmeric, bay leaf and cauliflower, cook on medium heat for another 20 minutes. Take a strainer and remove approximately ½ cups of cooked cauliflower, place in a food processor and mash the cauliflower. Remove the bay leaf, add the mashed cauliflower back into the pot cooking on the stove and add lime juice, salt and pepper to taste.
Add shredded cheese to the soup and enjoy.
Yield, 8 servings, 2.5 net carbs per serving