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Bowl of cauliflower and greens soup, creamy and pale green — RIPE Europe recipe
Batch 022

Cauliflower and
greens soup.

Light meal Liquid Gold Batch 022
35 minutes Serves 4 Liquid Gold

A soup that earns its weight in February. Steamed cauliflower goes into the blender with coconut milk and broth, then dark greens fold in at the end to colour and lift the whole thing. It's gentle food, the kind you make when you've eaten a lot of bread.

Sinead McInerney prepping vegetables at the marble kitchen counter — RIPE Lifestyle Europe
Cauliflower and greens, the way Sinead's grandmother made them.
Method
  1. Steam the cauliflower florets for 10-12 minutes, until tender at the edges of a knife.
  2. While it steams, warm the olive oil in a pan over medium heat. Add the shallot, onion and garlic and cook gently until translucent.
  3. Add the kale or spinach, rosemary and chilli, and let the greens wilt down.
  4. Tip the steamed cauliflower into a blender with the coconut milk and broth. Blend until smooth.
  5. Add the wilted greens and herbs and pulse a few times to bring them through. The soup should turn pale green.
  6. Pour back into the pan to warm through. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.
  7. Serve with sauteed snap peas, toasted seeds, or a final pour of olive oil.
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"Keep the rosemary stem in while you blend, then fish it out. You get the herb without the woody bits."
— from the kitchen, on this recipe
Common questions

A few things people ask.

Liquid Gold is the right partner; chicken broth has the gentleness this soup wants. Mushroom & Herb works but leans the soup darker, which fights with the pale-green character. Beef broth is too heavy and turns the whole bowl muddy.
Spinach gives a brighter green and a softer flavour; kale gives a darker green and a more pronounced earthiness. We use kale in winter and spinach in spring. Either works; chard sits somewhere between the two.
Yes, but the colour fades within a day. Make and serve within a few hours for the prettiest result. If you have to make it ahead, blend the cauliflower base in advance and add the greens (wilted fresh) when you reheat. That way the green stays green.
Not with our Liquid Gold chicken broth. Swap in a vegetable or mushroom broth and the soup is fully plant-based; the coconut milk is doing the cream work and there's no other dairy.
It freezes, but the colour suffers. The cauliflower base alone freezes fine for up to three months. If you're freezing, freeze that and add fresh greens on reheating.
Because we want the soup pale, gentle, almost dairy-creamy in feeling. Roasting browns the cauliflower and pushes the soup darker and nuttier, which is delicious but a different dish. Steaming keeps it soft and quiet, which is the point of this one.

Cooked, tested and written by Sinead McInerney in our Lisbon kitchen. Last reviewed: June 2026.