Can anyone sugest something interesting to do with a cauliflower?

[Impret-Sir]

No obcene suggestions please!  And NOT cauliflower cheese! I just want some different and interesting way to prepare and or serve the stuff. I have done simple boiling, roasting and stir-fry.

[ursula62]

Cauliflower and chickpea casserole.

Fry an onion in some olive oil. Add some crushed garlic. Then add half a teaspoon of ground cumin, half a teaspoon of ground coriander, quarter of a teaspoon of ground turmeric, a pinch of ground fenugreek and stir until the spices are mixed in and the oil separates out again. Add 2 tablespoons of tomato puree. Then put in the cauliflower (divided into florets) and stir until it is coated all over with the tomato puree and spices. Add a tin of chopped tomatoes, and half a tin of cold water and stir in a tin of chickpeas (drained).  Bring to the boil then reduce the heat and simmer until the cauliflower is tender and the sauce is reduced and thickened. Add salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle on some chopped coriander leaves before serving.

Is great served with rice (white or brown) or warm crusty bread and some green salad.

(You can use kidney beans instead of chickpeas for a completely different flavour).

[funkychicken]

put it in a vegetable curry with potatoes, carrot, peas and any other veg you fancy

[mullein1]

cook it and mix with some mashed potatoe and cheese..season it and make it into burger shapes with flour to keep it firm dip in beaten egg then breadcrumbs and shallow fry..

[nfn]

cauli and stilton soup. cook the cauli as normal. heat a couple of pints of milk and add the cauli and 200g stilton (or any other blue cheese). Cook until cheese is melted. Blitz in a processor. delicious.

Traditionally brocolli is used but I like cauli and stilton just as much

[funkychicken]

go on http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/recipe/ and type in cauliflower and lots of recipes come up

[flaming]

You could make little  "beignets" as I once got from a French recipe book. Take any cooked, firm vegetable say, cauliflower.  Dip narrow slices of the cauli florets in to coating batter and deep fry them until the batter is golden. Maybe you have other cooked veg. you could mix on the serving dish?  Garnish with parsley and arrange lemon wedges round.  I'm sure you know the Japanase do a similar thing,  "veg.tempura"  but not with cauli. and that all these batter-coated veg. have to be sizzlingly hot.  

I suppose I could do cauli in the hole, as I am a vegetarian and am rather a dab hand at Yorkshire pud!

[ursula62]

At a posh Chinese restaurant with some veggie friends we ordered sweet and sour cauliflower. It was florets covered in batter and fried and then served with a sweet and sour sauce. Sounds a bit naff if you eat sweet and sour prawns, but it was actually delicious.

I asked the chef if they parboiled the cauli first and he said no, just cut it into smallish florets (about 2cm) and dip them straight in the batter before frying. As the sauce is so piquant you don't need to season the veg or the batter much.

Guess you'd need to google to find an authentic recipe for sweet and sour sauce, but the Uncle Bens one in a jar is quite good.

[cat woman]

How about these Cauliflower recipe's  http://ashycook.topcities.com/cauliflower-recipes.htm