Name: Yotam Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1 large cauliflower or 2 small , cut/broken into florets (~650g / 1.3 lb florets); 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1/2 tsp each salt and pepper; 1 celery stalk , cut into 0.5cm / 0.3" slices on the diagonal; 1/3 cup hazelnuts , raw, skin on; 1/2 pomegranate , seeds only (~1/3 cup); 1 cup parsley leaves , lightly packed; 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 1/3 tsp cinnamon powder (Note 2); 1/3 tsp allspice (Note 2); 1 tbsp sherry vinegar; 1 1/2 tsp maple syrup (or honey or golden syrup); 1/4 tsp each salt and pepper

This can be a Roasted Cauliflower Salad from Yotam Ottolenghi’s well-liked cookbook, Jerusalem. A novel mixture of components comes collectively in a salad that’s simply 100% yum: celery, hazelnuts, a number of parsley with a subtly spiced dressing. It’s critically scrumptious!

Cauliflower Salad in a bowl, ready to be served — Yotam Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad Recipe

Welcome to Day 16 of the inaugural Vacation Salad Marathon, the place I’m sharing 30 salads in a row by way of to Christmas Eve. One thing completely different to the same old sugar-loaded baking countdowns!!

In the present day, we’re cauliflowering:

I first shared this Cauliflower Salad method again after I began this web site in 2014. It’s a recipe by Yotam Ottolenghi, from his wildly well-liked cookbook Jerusalem which I not too long ago admitted I used to be embarrassed to price as my #1 cookbook as a result of it’s soooooo apparent. I actually hoped to share one thing extra groundbreaking as my most-used cookbook, however alas no. 😂

However, it’s worthy instead as #1, and this cauliflower salad recipe is an efficient instance why. Distinctive mixture however easy, and really, very scrumptious.

Close up of fork picking up Cauliflower Salad — Yotam Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad Recipe

Cauliflower is a sensational vegetable to roast, reworking from bland and dry to candy and juicy. When scorching, it’s additionally a sponge for flavour which makes it a terrific ingredient for salads because it absorbs the flavour of dressings.

Right here’s what you should make this salad:

Ingredients in Yotam Ottolenghi's Roasted Cauliflower Salad — Yotam Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad Recipe

A few helpful “Good To Know” tutorials would possibly assist out right here:

How I lower cauliflower florets shortly & effectively with minimal mess!
Methods to take away pomegranate seeds – contained on this Pomegranate Salad recipe (there’s enjoyable issue concerned!)

Tray of roasted cauliflower for Cauliflower Salad - Yotam Ottolenghi — Yotam Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad Recipe

Cauliflower Salad in a rustic bowl, ready to be eaten — Yotam Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad Recipe

Whereas this has Center Japanese roots, the spicing in that is fairly refined so don’t simply prohibit your self to serving this alongside Arabic and Persian meals. It could be simply as at house at a yard BBQ as it will a blow out Arabian Nights Feast.

Gentle sufficient to be a facet dish alongside grand roasts, but substantial and positively fascinating sufficient to have as a meal in itself.

Strive it. It is going to shock you!

Yotam Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad Recipe

What’s the Vacation Salad Marathon?

That is my inaugural Christmas recipe countdown the place I’m sharing 30 salad recipes in a row till Christmas Eve – one thing fully completely different to folks’s traditional baking countdowns!

These salads are along with my common 3 new recipes every week. As a result of aren’t you bored of the same old tomato-cucumber-lettuce backyard salad routine??

Click on right here to see all of the Vacation Salad Marathon recipes thus far, or join immediate updates and also you’ll obtain a free electronic mail alert at any time when I publish a brand new salad! 🙂