If you love Food Network as much as I do, then you probably know about the show “Chopped“. Today I’m super excited to be participating in Food Network’s Chopped At Home Challenge, creating a comfort dish with secret “basket” ingredients. Come join me and enter the Chopped At Home contest!
Food Network’s Chopped At Home Challenge
Ready to compete like a Chopped Champion? Here’s your chance to enter the competition! In the Chopped at Home Challenge, there will be three rounds of online competition each followed by a voting period. There will be 4 finalist spots for contestants to win by entering a recipe using mystery basket ingredients. In addition to going to NYC to face off in the Chopped kitchen at Food Network headquarters, four finalists will each win $5,000. And, to top it all off, the final winner will receive $10,000, just like a real Chopped champion!
Round 1: Comfort Food
Round 1 theme is comfort food. What’s your favorite comfort food? For me, comfort food means a savory soup that warms up my heart and soul, especially in wintertime. Now check out the required ingredient and the secret “basket” ingredients for Round 1 below. Required Ingredient: Sargento® Sharp Cheddar Fine Cut Secret Basket Ingredients: cauliflower, cremini mushrooms, and leeks.
Creamy Roasted Cauliflower Soup
For the first Chopped At Home Challenge, I made this delicious and rich Creamy Roasted Cauliflower Soup with my favorite roasted cauliflower. Growing up in Japan, I had rarely eaten any “roasted” food because Japanese cooking involves mostly cooking on the stove-top. Since I came to the U.S., I fell in love with roasting vegetables, and cauliflower is of my top favorite ingredients for roasting. Roasted vegetables add a whole array of new flavor profiles and you can definitely use other vegetables of your choice as well.
Making Creamy Roasted Cauliflower Soup
This delicious vegetarian soup is very easy to make, but don’t let the simple ingredient deceive you. It has so many wonderful essences from the roasted cauliflower, and the leek and cremini mushrooms add to it with their umami flavors. All the ingredients blend really well together and I added Sargento’s shredded sharp cheddar cheese in the end to add a kick to the dish. I like using Sargento’s cheese because they are cut from blocks of 100% real, natural cheese. Fun Fact: If you are wondering what cremini mushrooms are, they are basically the older version of the white mushrooms. As these mushroom mature even more, they become portabella mushrooms, so cremini mushroom are also called baby bella. My family absolutely loved this soup and surprisingly my children asked for refills even though it’s all vegetables. I hope you will enjoy this soup as much as my family does.
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Don’t like Cauliflower? Try this recipe!
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