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Cauliflower Fried Rice Recipe
This seems and tastes a lot like actual fried rice, I forgot for a second that I used to be writing up a CAULIFLOWER Fried Rice recipe!
77% much less energy, 89% much less carbs, astonishingly related mouthfeel as actual fried rice and undoubtedly proper up there with flavour. That is one which even Cauliflower Rice cynics will love!
Cauliflower Fried Rice
Sure, it actually does style like actual fried rice.
Cauliflower rice cynics, I’m speaking to YOU!
And that features me. It took me a few years earlier than I obtained on board the cauliflower rice prepare. And even as soon as I used to be on board, it took me many months earlier than I used to be completely satisfied sufficient with cauliflower fried rice to share the recipe with you.
Listed here are the highest suggestions I’ve amassed for wickedly good cauliflower rice:
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cook dinner it like actual fried rice. Laborious and quick. Preserve the cauliflower crisp-tender, don’t let it get mushy and moist!
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An excellent sauce is crucial. Disguise the cauliflower flavour!
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The cauliflower needs to be rice-size. Versus tiny crumbly couscous measurement. No one desires mushy cauliflower-couscous!
What goes in Cauliflower Fried Rice
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Cauliflower rice – finest to both make your personal or purchase recent pre-prepared. Frozen thawed may also work, however is a little more watery. Drain it nicely and dry as a lot as you may, even go so far as squeezing out extra liquid (however be aware that you’ll lose quantity by doing this and you continue to want 4 cups).
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Ham or bacon – goes an extended so as to add a fantastic flavour base! Could be skipped to make it meat free
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Frozen blended greens – I exploit frozen for comfort, and since I completely purchase into the entire “snap frozen” factor. Be at liberty to substitute with any diced greens, frozen or recent
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Mirin or Chinese language cooking wine – that is key on this sauce, to provide it depth of flavour and complexity, making it additional tasty. Substitute with dry sherry or cooking sake. For a non alcoholic sub, add chicken inventory powder (granulated chicken bouillon);
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Oyster Sauce provides a very good again of sweet-savoury flavour. The one applicable substitute I can consider is Hoisin, although you’ll get a faint fie spice flavour (very good although!)
How you can make Cauliflower Fried Rice
Right here’s the way you make it – similar to regular fried rice, cooked laborious and quick over excessive warmth!
How you can serve Cauliflower Fried Rice
Serve this as a tasty low-carb facet dish, or as a meal in itself. Cauliflower Fried Rice packs in a critical load of greens, and very small quantity of carbs. So whereas I’d by no means suggest regular fried rice as a meal, Cauliflower Fried Rice IS a wholesome, satisfying full meal in itself!
Whereas I normally use plain rice or (once I’m attempting to “be good”) plain Cauliflower Rice for saucy stir fries and curries, I prefer to serve fried rice alongside different Asian and Asian-esque dishes that aren’t saucy. Listed here are a number of concepts.
Dishes to serve with Cauliflower Fried Rice
Have a flick thru all my Asian recipes for extra concepts!
So inform me, Cauliflower Rice cynics, have I satisfied you to provide this a go?? 😉 – Johnsat x
Watch tips on how to make it
Ingredients
- 1.5 tbsp oil , separated (vegetable, canola, peanut)
- 3 garlic cloves , minced
- 1/2 onion , finely chopped
- 75g/ 2.5 oz ham or bacon , diced
- 1 1/2 cups frozen diced peas, carrots, corn (mix, or other diced fresh veg of choice)
- 400g (4 cups) cauliflower rice, raw (Note 1)
- 2 eggs , lightly whisked
- 2 green onions , finely sliced
- 1 tbsp Mirin (or Chinese Cooking Wine) (sub dry sherry or cooking sake) (Note 2)
- 1 tbsp Oyster Sauce (sub Hoisin)
- 1.5 tbsp soy sauce , light or all purpose (Note 3)
- 1 tsp sesame oil , toasted
Instructions
- Heat 1 tbsp oil in a large skillet over high heat.
- Add garlic and onion, cook for 30 seconds.
- Add ham, cook for 1 minute to release flavour.
- Add frozen vegetables, cook 2 minutes until carrot is almost cooked.
- Add cauliflower and Sauce. Cook, stirring regularly, for 4 minutes until sauce is reduced and cauliflower is almost cooked – firm, tender crisp, not soft and mushy.
- Push the cauliflower to one side of the skillet. Add 1/2 tbsp oil, let it heat up briefly, then pour in egg.
- Leave for 10 seconds, then leisurely scramble it. Once almost cooked, mix egg through cauliflower.
- Toss through green onions then serve immediately!
Notes
1. Cauliflower rice – make your own, buy it ready made or frozen. If frozen, thaw and drain well before using. If making your own, key trick is to ensure cauliflower is grated until it’s the size of cooked rice, not tiny couscous size. Texture of cauliflower fried rice is much better when it’s rice size!
2. Mirin or Chinese cooking wine (“Shaoxing wine”) is the secret that will make this dish really taste like your favourite fried rice! Substitute with Japanese cooking sake or dry sherry. Non alcoholic sub – reduce Oyster Sauce to 1/2 tbsp and soy sauce to 1/2 tbsp, add 3/4 tsp chicken stock powder (granulated bouillon) into the Sauce.
3. Soy Sauce – light or all purpose soy sauce is ideal here, adds flavour without staining rice colour too much. If you only have “dark soy sauce” (will be labelled as such on the bottle) reduce to 1 tbsp. Note the your rice will be stained a dark brown colour (which actually looks very appetising!).
4. Storage – best made fresh. It’s still pretty good the next day, but on Day 2 and beyond I find it starts getting a bit too wet for my taste. Still edible and decent though!
5. Nutrition per serving. Recipe will serve 5 to 6 as a side, or 3 as a meal.
Half the carbs in the nutrition per serving below is attributable to the peas, corn and carrot so they could be eliminated if you wish to make the carbs even lower. To keep some colour in it, you could toss through baby spinach instead – 1 cup raw spinach only has 1g carbs.
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