Midweek Meals: 5 unlikely ways to spice up the humble cauliflower

Including a recipe from cult-favourite Hollywood hard-man Danny Trejo(!), and a foolproof vegan tray-bake
Midweek Meals: 5 unlikely ways to spice up the humble cauliflower

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Cauliflower and cashew pilaf tray bake recipe

By:ella Mills Recipe

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Cauliflower and cashew pilaf tray bake recipe

Servings

4

Preparation Time

10 mins

Time Cooking

40 mins

Total Time

50 mins

Course

Main

Cuisine

Irish

ingredients

  • 1 onion, finely sliced
  • Tough Discarded, Florets Leaves Outer Cut 1 Into Cauliflower,

  • Finely Of And Sized Peeled 1 Grated Thumb Piece Ginger,

  • Crushed Garlic 2 Cloves,

  • Oil, 1½ Melted Tbsp Coconut

  • 1 Cinnamon Stick

  • 2 Leaves Bay

  • Tsp 1 Seeds Cumin

  • Tsp Turmeric ½

  • 1 Ground Coriander Tsp

  • Cashews, Chopped 50g Roughly

  • 40g Sultanas

  • Rinsed Basmati 250g Rice, Drained And White

  • Cut Trimmed Into 4–5cm Lengths 200g Beans, Green And

  • Hot Vegetable Stock 500ml

  • Halved Lemon, 1

  • Chopped Handful Of Small Roughly Coriander,

  • Serve (optional) To Harissa,

method

  1. The To 180°c Preheat Fan Oven

  2. A Roasting Single, And Cauliflower, Everything Cinnamon, Onion, Cashews Add Ginger And Cumin, In Until Layer The A Garlic Out Coconut The And Bined Leaves, Large Bay Even Coriander Turmeric, Put Well Mix Into Oil, Tin Spread

  3. Colour Until Bake Little For On Taken Cauliflower Place In And Have A Oven Minutes, Onion The And The The 10 Tray

  4. Over Stir Out Everything An Out Hot And The Then Spread Rice Pour Veg, The Through Stock Green Add Tray The Even Layer Beans Take In And Them Sultanas, The

  5. And Cover Serve Drizzle To For Foil A Squeeze Add Coriander, Cauliflower Lemon A The Sprinkling With With Rice Are And Until Juice Harissa, Bake You Then Of Generous 30 A And Tray Taste, Of Season Like And 25 If Tender Minutes, Of The To

Puff Pastry with Roasted Cauliflower, Cashel Blue Cheese and Beetroot

Recipe Mcandrew By:orla

Broccoli Brie Recipe Cranberry Cheese Use Or Would Some With This You Well Blue Work Any Sauce In Also Roast Really Can

Puff Pastry with Roasted Cauliflower, Cashel Blue Cheese and Beetroot

Servings

8

Preparation Time

10 mins

Cooking Time

20 mins

Total Time

30 mins

Course

Starter

ingredients

  • Sheet 1 Puff Pastry

  • Beaten Egg 1

  • Roasted ¼ Head Cauliflower

  • Cheese 50g Blue Cashel

  • Fraiche G Creme 50

  • Cooked Beetroot ½

  • Bunch Mint Garnish To Small

method

  1. To 190°c Oven Preheat

  2. Baking Sheet Golden In Rectangles Colour For And Puff Fully 20 Into Place With Egg Lined Until And Brush The Cook On Beaten A Cut Minutes And 15 Pastry Risen

  3. In Blender Rest Cauliflower The Tips Fraiche Cheese Blue And Off With And Place A Take The Cashel Creme Some Meanwhile, The

  4. Bag Have One Place In You A Contents If Piping

  5. Finely Beetroot Dice Cooked The

  6. Serve Cooled, Once Of Sprinkle Some Some Mixture On Pastry The Cauliflower The Pieces Charred Place The Out Immediately Of Dot Top Beetroot And With Along Has Top Top Along The Diced Mint The Cauliflower And Pipe

Roast Cauliflower with Tahini and Zhug

O'gorman By:colm Recipe

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Roast Cauliflower with Tahini and Zhug

Servings

2

Time Preparation

25 mins

Cooking Time

50 mins

Total Time

1 hours 15 mins

Course

Main

Cuisine

Middle Eastern

ingredients

  • cauliflower

  • Of 1 Head Cauliflower

  • Oil 2 Tbsp Olive

  • Cumin Tsp 1

  • Ground Coriander 1 Tsp

  • Tsp 1 Sumac

  • Juice Of Lemon A Half

  • Sea Season Flaky Salt To

  • 6 Cherry Tomatoes 8

  • tahini Sauce

  • 125g Tahini

  • 3 Garlic Cloves

  • Of Juice Fresh Ml Lemon 50

  • Salt Of Sea Pinch

  • Cumin Of Ground Pinch

  • 1 Honey Tsp

  • 1 Cubes 2 Ice

  • zhug

  • Green Chillies 2

  • 2 Garlic Cloves

  • Tsp Ground ¼ Cumin

  • Coriander Tsp ¼ Ground

  • Salt Tsp ¼

  • Of Juice A Lemon Half

  • Oil 2 Extra Olive Virgin Tbsp

  • Serve to

  • And/or Parsley Flat Leaf Coriander Fresh Chopped

  • Fresh Pomegranate Seeds

method

  1. Cauliflower, Tablespoon On Mixed Surface Plate It Dry Sumac Pastry The Surface A Or The Spreading A Cumin, Together The Cauliflower Leaves Drizzle Coriander Bottom The Oil Half The All And Of As Of Cover Over Stand Them Microwave And Cut And And Work Possible Juice Olive Of Much It Over The Possible And Squeeze The To As About Leave As Using Scatter Trim A Prove From The Wash To And Of Brush Spices Cauliflower, Dish The A Base Lemon The As The A The Cauliflower Of Flat In Evenly Stalk Over Mix Away

  2. Through The Easily, Into Head Of Pop Size Slides Cauliflower, And Done If Of Sharp The The Will Microwave Twelve Cauliflower A If It For Obviously Minutes Skewer Another This By The Knife For It See On Power Cooked To It It Needs In Though Or Full Check Then Sliding Minutes Is More The Again Upon Time, Back Three The Small Check Knife If Microwave Into So Is Centre Depend

  3. Over For Oven An An Air Of Air Oil, Thirty Using Allow Some Over An If Once Is It Tablespoon Minutes Celsius Need And 180 In To An Will Sprinkle This Is And Take In Done In At Longer Fryer Preheated Or Sea Over Until Or Fryer; All Transfer Cauliflower Toasted You Microwave, And Olive Salt The Another Will Drizzle Than It To Little Twenty It A Oven Flaky Roast Oven The Golden

  4. Is The Roasting, Sauces Make Cauliflower While Your

  5. Sauce Blitz A Blitz And And Smooth Very A Cube Cold Add Add The Bine Blender The Still A Little Likely You Have Thick, Very Make Lemon And A Sauce Will Roughly You The With To Add A That That Chop Until For And Tablespoons In Is And At Blitz A Coriander, Stage An To Minute Peel The Sauce, Easy Tahini, If This Ice And Thick Two Tahini Few Add The Can Cumin, Water And Everything Seizes Them And Creamy, The Or You To Blitz Of Mixture Next, That Well In Consistency Juice Up The Pouring Garlic Is Tahini Find Salt

  6. If Punch, Blender, To For And Discard Chillies Blender The To My Wash The The Wash Olive Milder In Some Zhuk, Chop This Tops And A Blitz The Which And Garlic, Peel Remove Chillies So And Chilli Seeds Roughly And Of And Nutribullet Processor For Size Of Set The I A Stalks I With Sauce Aside A Spices, The Portions Along Add Juice Herbs, To Like Them You Roughly This And Sauce Smooth Perfectly Add Chillies Small The Make Into The The Lemon To Chop Those Food Put The Use Sauce Oil Salt, Works And My Leave I Or Have Want

  7. Cauliflower The Or Is Just When About Will Air Separate Roast They On Out A Soft Tomatoes To Oven Five Their Fryer Need Skins Perfectly Are They The About Cherry The Of In Done, Tray Popping Almost And Minutes Until Roast

  8. Leaf Of Of Sauce The Some Around On Zhug It Roughly Fresh Roasted The Spoon Flat The The Cauliflower The And Parsley Base From With Tomatoes Is Pomegranate Seeds Chopped Arrange Generous The The Golden Fresh Now Over Prepare Lots Some Finish Over, Tahini Cauliflower Place The A Dish Of Of Cauliflower And Coriander Add Platter Chop All And The Over Seeds Of Some Spoon Remove And The Roasting Pomegranate When Serving Fresh It Top Amounts Herbs Roasted Or

Anna Jones’s pan-roasted cauliflower with saffron butter

Nuts The And Pine Of Enhances Vegetables Sweetness Saffron Side Here A By Adding Balanced The To Dish For The Flavour, Cauliflower, Vinegar Delicious

Anna Jones’s pan-roasted cauliflower with saffron butter

Servings

4

Preparation Time

10 mins

Cooking Time

20 mins

Time Total

30 mins

Course

Side

ingredients

  • Yoghurt: The for

  • Small Mint Chopped And/or Parsley, Bunch Of Finely

  • Your Of Natural Vegan Yoghurt Thick 6 tbsp Or Yoghurt Choice

  • Olive Oil Of Drizzle Good

  • The Cauliflower: for

  • Oil Olive

  • Stalks (about 3/4lb), 1 Florets Sliced Large And Separated Finely Cauliflower 800g/1

  • 50ml Vinegar White Wine

  • Teaspoon Pinch Saffron 1/2 Ground (or Of Strands Turmeric) Good

  • Or 50g Butter Vegan Butter, Cubed

  • Small Coriander, Chopped Parsley And/or Roughly Of Bunch

  • to Serve:

  • 4 Flatbreads

  • Chilli Or Sumac Good Of Aleppo Pinch

  • 150g Nuts, Toasted Pine

method

  1. To 220°c Preheat Oven The

  2. Salt Aside Yoghurt And/or Oil, Set Mint A Olive In In Parsley A Pepper, Splash Mix Season Small The With Bowl And Then Stir And Of

  3. Good Back The Pan Browned Sides Heat, (you Will Stalks Glug Your Medium The Add The Oven (this Layer In Add Few A About The On For Minutes, Of In The Into And May To Put It Lot Then About Single Crisp Oven The A And Oil, All Large Minutes), Cauliflower Bake Frying Proof A 10 Both 10 Florets Are In Once Olive Cook Pan Until Heat Soft Batches) A Take Need Is Over Cauliflower A

  4. Of 2 The For Glove, The Or Then Back Put Vinegar Medium Heat, Through Vinegar The To A Turmeric The And/or Reduce Cauliflower Oven The The The Toss Using It Take In Add The From Hob Pan Thick And Add On An The Minutes Sauce, Off Saffron About Most It Heat, Over Butter, Then Remove Parsley Then Create Glossy Oven Coriander A And Stir

  5. The Back Recipe Parsley, The A Finish Yoghurt It Bottom, In And With Swirl Tumble Flatbreads Is Pine Nuts Cauliflower Planet Over The From
    this The A Pan, Bowl Serving Bit Spoon Jones' With Shallow To Last

Danny Trejo’s cauliflower tostada recipe

The An Half Table In Under Dish On Simple This Hour Delicious Be Yet Can

Danny Trejo’s cauliflower tostada recipe

Servings

4

Cooking Time

20 mins

Time Total

20 mins

Course

Main

ingredients

  • Corn 4 Tortillas

  • Medium Head Cauliflower 1

  • Oil 2tbsp Olive

  • And To Pepper Salt Taste

  • Pickled Onions

  • Crema Avocado

  • 2tbsp Flakes (optional) Arbol

  • The Garnish: for

  • 24 Pickled Onions Red

  • Pinch Of Coriander Chopped

  • Quartered Lime, 1

method

  1. Oven The Preheat

  2. The Tray On The Florets Salt Scatter And Season Pepper With Cauliflower And

  3. To Roast Desired Your Cauliflower Tenderness

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