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Cauliflower Rice Recipe
Cauliflower Rice is the low carb different to rice, with 77% much less energy and 89% much less carbs. When made properly, you’ll be astonished how scrumptious it’s served with something and all the things you normally serve with rice!
Prepare dinner it within the microwave, oven or range. Use the tactic that finest works for you!
Cauliflower Rice
Cauliflower masquerading as rice.
Is it pretty much as good as rice? No. And anybody who tells you in any other case is both mendacity, or doesn’t know what tasty meals is.😂
However is it a very good wholesome substitute for rice that might be made to be scrumptious in its personal proper?
YES IT IS!
So what does it style like? It tastes MILDLY like cauliflower. It’s not as cauliflowery as plain steamed florets as a result of the cauliflower flavour is tempered when grated into little rice dimension items – which is what you need.
And since cauliflower has a impartial flavour, it’s simply disguised when doused with a tasty sauce – like this Honey Garlic Chicken with Cucumber Salad on the facet. Once you get caught into it, it’s possible you’ll properly neglect it’s not rice!
The right way to make Cauliflower Rice
The perfect and quickest approach is to push cauliflower florets by means of the feeding tube right into a meals processor fitted with the grating disc.
This blitzes up the cauliflower into rice formed bits and can make your cauliflower rice consuming expertise as comparable as doable to rice.
Don’t have a grating disc attachment?
The grating disc works higher than the default “S” curve blade that meals processors include to evenly grate all of the cauliflower into rice formed items.
When you can simply use the default “S” curve blade, you’ll discover that some finally ends up extra like couscous whereas some is rice dimension. Or some are lentil dimension and a few are rice dimension. You get the gist. 🙂 “S” blade works fairly properly, however the grating disc works higher.
No meals processor?
No worries! Simply use your on a regular basis customary grater. This really works higher than utilizing the “S” blade of a meals processor to make rice-size items, however it’s messier. You will get little bits of cauliflower in all places – on the counter, and possibly on the ground!
As we speak I’m going to point out you how one can prepare dinner plain cauliflower rice, meant to be served like white rice with saucy issues like stir fries and curries. Within the coming weeks, I’ll additionally share some recipes made by cooking cauliflower rice that are knock-your-socks-off scrumptious!
The right way to prepare dinner Cauliflower Rice
Select the tactic that matches in finest together with your approach of cooking:
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Microwave steam (quickest) – place in container with lid (no water), microwave on excessive 4 minutes
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Oven steam – place in baking dish, cowl with lid or foil, bake 20 minutes at 200°C/390°F
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Oven bake (nice nutty flavour) – toss with a little bit of oil, bake quarter-hour at 200°C/390°F.
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Range – sauté with just a little oil for round 4 minutes
The right way to serve Cauliflower Rice
Serve with something that you simply normally serve with rice, and use it rather than rice in issues like rice salads! Listed here are some strategies.
1. Stir Fries
Excellent to take in tasty Stir Fry sauces!
2. Curries
Supreme for dousing with wealthy, flavour loaded Curry sauces….
3. Something saucy
Something saucey that you simply like served with rice!
4. Rice and Couscous Salads
Use rather than Couscous or Rice in salads, corresponding to these:
The right way to prepare dinner with cauliflower rice
Cooking with cauliflower rice just isn’t at all times a straight substitution as rice wants 1.5 to 2 cups of liquid for each cup of dried rice, whereas cauliflower rice doesn’t require liquid to prepare dinner it. It additionally cooks in about 1/3 of the time as white rice.
Nevertheless, you need to use the sauce and non liquid flavourings in my rice facet dish recipes as a information to decorate up your cauliflower rice.
And it’s significantly good for fried rice. You should use any of my fried rice recipes and do a direct swap substituting cooked rice with uncooked cauliflower rice.
Fried Rice Recipes
Or you can simply use my Cauliflower Fried Rice recipe!
Even in case you’re a cynic (and I used to be for a really very long time), I actually hope you give this a go a minimum of as soon as. Consider all of the energy you’re saving – and what you need to use all these calorie credit for! 😂 – Johnsat x
Watch how one can make it
Ingredients
- 1 head cauliflower (or 500g/1lb store bought prepared cauliflower rice, Note 1)
Instructions
- Cut / break cauliflower into florets (including stems) that will fit into the feeding tube of food processor.
- Fit food processor with grating disc. Place lid on, then push the florets into the feeding tube with the motor running on low.
- Cauliflower will blitz into rice shaped bits! Can use raw but I prefer cooking it – use a method below.
- Food processor standard "S" blade – fill halfway with florets, pulse 4 to 5 times until largest bits are the size of cooked rice (half will be couscous size, half rice sized). Repeat as needed.
- Hand grating – cut whole cauliflower into quarters, then grate by hand.
- Only cook cauliflower rice until it is just cooked – don't let it go soft and mushy (it gets watery).
- Roasting – drizzle with 1 tbsp olive oil. Toss, spread on tray, bake at 200°C/390°F for 15 minutes, tossing halfway through cook time.
- Microwave – place in container with lid with vent open. Microwave 4 to 5 minutes on high until tender crisp. Don't overcook too soggy.
- Oven steam – place in covered baking dish, bake 200°C/390°F for 20 minutes.
- Stove – Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in large skillet over medium high heat. Optional: Cook 2 minced garlic cloves 20 sec until golden. Add rice, cook 4 to 5 minutes, stirring every minute or so, for 5 minutes until just cooked.
- Serve in place of rice with stir fries, curries, anything saucy that you like serving with rice.
- Use in place of rice or grains in salads and fried rice.
Notes
1. Frozen – if using frozen, can microwave or oven steam from frozen. For other cook methods, thaw, drain excess liquid then cook per directions.
2. Yield – 1 medium cauliflower 1.25kg/2.5lb (including stalk) yields about 700g / 1.4 lb 7 cups of raw rice.
3. Cooking with cauliflower rice – cannot use as a straight sub in recipes where rice is cooked in liquid because unlike normal rice, cauliflower rice does not need to absorb liquid to cook. See in post for tips for how to cook with cauliflower rice.
4. Storing:
Raw – airtight container for 5 days in the fridge, or freeze
Cooked – 4 days in the fridge (I find it gets a bit soggy after this)
5. Nutrition per serving, cauliflower rice only.
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