Eu faço sopa com couve-flor e cenoura.

You can usually omit eu and simply say Faço sopa com couve-flor e cenoura.

Portuguese often leaves out subject pronouns when the verb ending already makes the subject clear. Here, faço clearly means I make / I do, so eu is optional.

You would keep eu when you want to:

• emphasize that I am the one doing it
• create a contrast: Eu faço sopa, mas ele faz salada
• make the sentence clearer in context

So both are correct:

• Eu faço sopa com couve-flor e cenoura
• Faço sopa com couve-flor e cenoura

Faço comes from the verb fazer, which usually means to do or to make.

In this sentence, it means make:

• fazer sopa = to make soup

This is a very common verb, but it is irregular, so the forms do not all follow a simple pattern.

Some present-tense forms are:

• eu faço = I make / do
• tu fazes = you make / do
• ele/ela faz = he/she makes / does
• nós fazemos = we make / do
• vós fazeis = you make / do (rare in modern speech)
• eles/elas fazem = they make / do

The ç in faço shows that the c is pronounced like s.

Without the cedilla, c before a, o, or u would normally sound like a hard k sound. So:

• faço sounds roughly like FAH-soo / FAH-su
• faco would suggest a hard k sound, which would be wrong

The cedilla (ç) is used before a, o, and u to keep the soft s sound:

• faço
• braço
• açúcar

In European Portuguese, faço is pronounced approximately FAH-soo, though the final vowel is often reduced, so it may sound closer to FAH-su or even a shorter ending than an English speaker expects.

A rough guide:

• fa = like fa in father
• ç = s
• final o in European Portuguese is often reduced, not a strong oh

So an English-friendly approximation is:

• FAH-su

Not exact, but close enough for a learner.

Faço sopa sounds natural because it means I make soup in a general sense.

In Portuguese, as in English, you do not always need an article with food or general activities.

Compare:

• Faço sopa = I make soup / I make soup in general
• Faço uma sopa = I make a soup / I’m making one soup

Using uma makes it sound more like:

• one specific soup
• a particular occasion of making soup

So in a general statement, faço sopa is the most natural choice.

Com means with.

In this sentence, it introduces the ingredients:

• com couve-flor e cenoura = with cauliflower and carrot

So:

• Eu faço sopa com couve-flor e cenoura = I make soup with cauliflower and carrot

It works very similarly to English with in this kind of sentence.

Here, the ingredients are being mentioned in a general, recipe-like way, so Portuguese often leaves out the articles.

That is why:

• com couve-flor e cenoura sounds natural

This is similar to English, where we often say:

• soup with cauliflower and carrot not necessarily
• soup with the cauliflower and the carrot

If you were talking about specific vegetables, articles could appear:

• com a couve-flor e a cenoura que comprei ontem
  = with the cauliflower and the carrot that I bought yesterday

So in your sentence, the zero article gives a general ingredient list feeling.

Couve-flor is the normal spelling for cauliflower in Portuguese, and it is written with a hyphen because it is a fixed compound noun.

Literally, the parts are:

• couve = cabbage / kale
• flor = flower

But together, couve-flor means cauliflower.

You should learn it as one vocabulary item:

• a couve-flor

All three are feminine nouns:

• a sopa
• a couve-flor
• a cenoura

This matters when you use articles or adjectives:

• A sopa está boa
• A couve-flor é fresca
• A cenoura está cozida

Even though the sentence itself does not show many agreement changes, it is useful to learn each noun with its article.

Yes, cenouras is also possible, depending on what you want to say.

In ingredient lists, Portuguese often uses either singular or plural depending on whether the noun is being treated as:

• a general ingredient or substance-like item → often singular
• countable individual items → often plural

So these can both make sense:

• com cenoura = with carrot / with carrot as an ingredient
• com cenouras = with carrots

The singular here sounds like a general ingredient description, which is very natural.

Yes. Fazer sopa is the normal and natural expression for to make soup.

Portuguese uses fazer very broadly for making things:

• fazer sopa = make soup
• fazer jantar = make dinner
• fazer um bolo = make a cake

So this is a direct and idiomatic way to express the idea.

The normal word order here is:

• Eu = subject
• faço = verb
• sopa = object
• com couve-flor e cenoura = prepositional phrase giving extra information

So the most neutral version is:

• Eu faço sopa com couve-flor e cenoura

You can change the order in some contexts, but it will sound more marked or literary:

• Com couve-flor e cenoura, faço sopa

That version puts extra focus on the ingredients. For a learner, the original order is the safest and most natural.

Yes. The Portuguese present tense can often cover both:

• I make soup
• I am making soup

The exact meaning depends on context.

So Eu faço sopa com couve-flor e cenoura could mean:

• a general habit: I make soup with cauliflower and carrot
• something happening now: I’m making soup with cauliflower and carrot

If you want to be very explicit about something happening right now in European Portuguese, you can also use:

• Estou a fazer sopa com couve-flor e cenoura
  = I am making soup with cauliflower and carrot

The sentence itself is also correct in Brazilian Portuguese:

• Eu faço sopa com couve-flor e cenoura

The main differences would be more about pronunciation than grammar here.

One useful difference to know is that for I am making soup right now, European Portuguese commonly says:

• Estou a fazer sopa

Brazilian Portuguese more commonly says:

• Estou fazendo sopa

But your original sentence works in both varieties.