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Cauliflower...winter's white wonder?

Over the past couple of years with the carb conscious craze, cauliflower has become a sought-after side dish. Nutrient-wise it gets high ratings, too. What do you do with cauliflower----steam, roast, eat raw, add to soup or hide it under a blanket of cheese sauce?

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Roast it! Mmm...

I make the pureed cauliflower that became so popular with the South Beach Diet. My husband requests it constantly. I also like to lightly coat cauliflower with some olive oil and roast in a hot oven until it is browned on the outside and soft in the middle. I toss the roasted cauliflower a little lemon juice and top with a mixture of toasted bread crumbs, minced garlic, red pepper flakes, and chopped parsley.

Roast it! Break into florets, toss them with olive oil, salt and pepper, and bung into a very hot oven for 30-40 minutes until tender and browned.

Cauliflower is one of our familiy's favorite vegetables. We enjoy it raw, pickled and this time of year roasted with olive oil, garlic and then sprinkled with grated parmesan.

My friends cauliflower and broccoli help me beat that mid-afternoon slump...the crunch of raw cauliflower is really satisfying. I make a healthier dip out of light sour cream, onion powder, and fresh chopped scallions.

I love it just about any way I can get it. Roasted is good, steamed with brown butter and a little lemon is good, cauliflower cheese is delicious, with hollandaise it's sublime, raw is yummy....I could go on

Saute with garlic and onion some chicken broth and then over hot pasta. MMMMMM

roast it with olive oil, curry powder and salt...just like candy :)

sauteed with ghee and indian spices it makes a perfect quick curry to eat over rice,

also broil leftover cooked cauliflower with some breadcrumbs and gruyere or parmesan cheese and a little cayenne pepper. perfection.

Curried cauliflower and potatoes... mmmmmmm... I'll see if I can find the recipe, but you can really just wing it and it will be good.

I just adore it raw. With homemade buttermilk dressing dip.

A critical ingredient in really good escabeche -- carrots, cauliflower, onions, hot chile peppers, whole garlic cloves macerated in vinegar, oil and oregano... mmmmmmm...

Cooked in good chicken stock and pureed into a thick *creamy* soup. Especially with broccoli, carrots and carmelized onions. And maybe some cheese if I'm in the mood. This is probably my very favorite.

I'm making roasted cauliflower tonight; tossed with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, salt and pepper. Just before it is done I grate some pecorino over the top and put it back in the oven for two more minutes. One of my favorite vegetables.

I roast it with a couple of garlic cloves and then I have roasted cauliflower and garlic to toss with fresh pasta, good olive oil, and a pinch of red pepper flakes - my favorite winter meal. I made a bacon/cauliflower soup for Christmas with a trickle of truffle oil on top and it was a huge hit.

This may sound wierd but its delicious, I grill it on the George Foreman Grill with kosher salt and oliver oil.

No cheese! It's too delicious on its own, roasted as described above by all the other brilliant SE-ers. :)

Fry it!!!!

Make a batter using whole wheat pastry flour, spelt flour or even chickpea flour, water and seasonings. Dunk the cauliflower in the batter and fry them!!!!! It's a great snack food.

Madelyn
KarmaFree Cooking

Roast with lots of crunchy salt and pepper, then top with a poached egg.

Or any of the above, you lot are Geniuses.

Anyone do cauliflower gratins?

Thomas Keller has a great recipe for cauliflower gratin in Bouchon.


Toss large florets with olive oil and ras el hanout, then roast at 400 for around 20 minutes. Serve with tahini sauce (lemon juice, tahini, garlic) for dipping. Great snack food.

mostly i roast, but i also enjoy this recipe from margaret fox: whittle the cauliflower into small crumbs and then saute it in olive oil and garlic for a minute. then add a tablespoon of water, the juice of half a lemon, salt and pepper. cover and steam for a minute or two, then throw in a big handful of parmesan.

definitely roast it. also: i had a side dish of the spicy cauliflower at Pizza Delfina when I was in San Francisco over the summer. It is definitely worth recreating at home by roasting it with olive oil, s/p, chili flakes and adding capers and roasted reds. My favorite cauliflower to date.

Cauliflower stir fried with curry powder.

Im also very fond of creamy cauliflower soup...

I always thought this sounded amazing: Four Cheese Gratin of Cauliflower.


Hillary
Chew on That

Inspired by a side dish at Bellaviate in the West Village. Sauteed Cauliflower, cut very finely, mixed with pine nuts, currants and bread crumbs.

Hillary---what's not to love about that recipe...lots & lots of cheese & heavy cream..Mmm!

I really like it roasted with garam masala. Also steamed and tossed with pasta/olive oil/garlic. But my all time favorite, a relic of childhood, and something I would never eat in public is cauliflower, steamed until really well done (blow on it and it collapses), and then mashed with lots of butter and a good amount of salt and pepper. I swear. I'm 10 again and rockin' my veggies.

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