The Snow Soup recipe is from a friend of mine, Sanna Zutter-Ilomäki. It's an excellent soup for kids.
What you need
2-4 potatoes
1 cauliflower
3-5 garlic cloves
salt & pepper
optional: nutmeg
..and to make sure the children agree to ingest these healthy ingredients; there are two secret weapons (please scroll down).
How to do it
Boil the potatoes (this time peeled potatoes, as the soup is supposed to be snow white), the cauliflower and the garlic in a modest amount of water.
Once everything is soft, perhaps an hour later, or longer -this is a soup that nearly makes itself - you blend and add the spices and now it's time take out the heavy artillery.
Wait! If you stop here (or only realize now that you didn't notice the secret ingredients); you are only a couple of tablespoons of butter away from a healthy version of mashed potatoes.
But let's get back to business; the secret weapons are:
Cream or cream cheese and cubes of bacon!
Add the cream cheese, mix
Fry the bacon cubes -preferably in a cast iron pan as it's a kid's meal and add the cubes just before serving.
Tried and tested!
Cauliflower benefits:
Cauliflower contains almost no calories but is packed with vitamins (most of the B-vitamins, vitamin K and C -but most is lost with the cooking), minerals (manganese, copper, iron, calcium and potassium).
Cauliflower also contains sulphur compounds believed to prevent cancer, a large variety of different antioxidants and detoxifying agents (that support the liver ridding the body of unwanted toxic compounds), dietary fiber, and omega-3-fatty acids.
Cauliflower is also high in choline, which is important for learning and memory.
Potato benefits:
Im am pro-potato, unfortunately potato has a bad name, even when boiled.
Potatoes contain plenty of vitamins and minerals, just like any other vegetable. Potatoes are especially high in vitamin B6, essential for good brain function.
And potatoes have some exotic compounds as well; one is a protein called "patatin" with antioxidant activity, and the others are the "kukoamines", that lower blood-pressure.
Now that you are highly motivated to ensure your kid will eat this, here is some more ammo.
IF the weaponry above didn't do the trick, you can go for landmines:
These are cheese curls, not larvae.
The no-tossing mama's leftover soup turned out pretty OK, I added lemongrass powder, chili powder, oyster sauce and it tastes best as cold and with a squirt of lemon juice.
A third soup can be made by mixing the two, works with or without lemon and gives an interesting colour:
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