If you're trying to reduce your carbohydrate intake, or better yet, increase your vegetable intake, cauliflower "rice" is a delicious option for doing both. Here's a delicious recipe.
If you're trying to reduce your carbohydrate intake, or better yet, increase your vegetable intake, cauliflower "rice" is a delicious option for doing both. This dish is versatile, rich, nutritious and, above all, super easy to prepare. Once you master its preparation you will see how easy it is to give variations to your meals.
Preparation of cauliflower rice
There are three ways to do it:
1. Our favorite and easiest - with a knife make thin slices along the cauliflower florets. This way you can get "grains" as thin or as thick as you want.
2. Use a box grater to grind the cauliflower florets down to the stem.
3. In a food processor, use the grater disc to process each foil. Once you have the "rice" ready you can prepare it in an infinite number of combinations. The following are some of our favorites.
"Simple cauliflower "rice
- 1 cauliflower head in "rice"
- ½ onion
- 1 handful of parsley (or your favorite herb)
- Extra virgin olive or avocado oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
In a stainless steel pan, heat enough oil to create a light layer. Fry the onion until soft and translucent. Add the "rice" and let it cook over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes. When it starts to get soft, turn the heat up and don't move it any more to create a small golden brown layer at the bottom of the pan to enhance the flavor of the dish. Season with salt and pepper to taste and mix in your favorite herbs at the end.
Cauliflower "rice" fried rice style (gluten free)
- 1 cauliflower head in "rice"
- ½ onion
- 1 zucchini
- 1 carrot
- 3 celery stalks
- 1 red pepper
- 1 yellow pepper
- Chinese onion, green stem only, finely chopped
- Coconut amines, or tamari sauce, to taste
Follow the instructions for plain rice but chop all the vegetables into small cubes. Cook them all in a layer of oil and, when they start to brown, add the cauliflower rice. When the rice is golden, remove it from the heat, add the finely chopped Chinese onion and add coconut amines. Season to taste with salt and pepper. You can use this dish as a main course by adding a fried egg to the rice.
If you don't have a problem with gluten, tamari sauce or soy sauce they work very well. If you choose to use soybeans, we recommend organic soy sauce to avoid GMOs (genetically modified organisms).
