Nutty Crumbed Cauliflower

August 22, 2015

Our vege deliveries bring continued to mail enormous cauliflower heads our way. We're non ill of them yet, calling on quondam recipes together with trialling novel ones amongst equal success. This is only about other novel one, institute on Vegan Richa. Richa coats apartment fans of cauliflower inward a besan batter, rolls them inward a spiced almond repast crust together with thence bakes them until they're golden brown. Set against dark plates amongst a sash of vegan cheese sauce, they await real fancy.

My rendition higher upward is a trivial less elegant, but a job solid success. The besan batter was polish together with slow to piece of work with. I quickly ran out of crumbing together with made a 2nd batch using roasted hazelnuts instead of almonds - they were a shade darker together with deeper inward flavour, together with I've adjusted the quantities below to fit. If you're non fussy close presentation, in that place proved an fifty-fifty easier agency to educate these - I dropped the concluding loving cup of cauliflower florets into a baking dish, drizzled the remaining batter over together with scattered them amongst crumbs, giving the florets a quick toss half-way through baking. They were only every bit tender together with tasty together with almost every bit crisp; nosotros ended upward eating them on sandwiches amongst mustard.

The larger, to a greater extent than presentable cauliflower slices were served amongst tartare sauce together with roasted cherry tomatoes. I intend they're at their best amongst a tart or pickley condiment.

Nutty crumbed cauliflower
(based on a recipe past times Vegan Richa)

1 caput cauliflower

batter
1/3 loving cup besan
1/4 loving cup rice flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
2 teaspoons nutritional yeast flakes
1/4 teaspoon dry soil cumin
dash of dark pepper
3/4 loving cup almond milk

crumbing
1/2 loving cup dry soil almonds and/or hazelnuts
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1/4 teaspoon salt
spray stone oil

Preheat an oven to 200°C. Line 2 baking trays amongst paper.

Slice the cauliflower into 1cm-thick pieces, every bit wide every bit they tin be. Keep together with run whatever florets that pause off too.

Prepare the batter inward a large shallow bowl. Stir together the dry out ingredients (besan through to pepper) together with thence whisk inward the almond milk until smooth.

In a bowl, stir together the crumbing ingredients (except for the spray oil) together with thence spread them out on a plate.

Take a cauliflower spell together with submerge it inward the batter, ensuring that it's good covered. Allow the excess batter to drip off, together with thence house it inward the crumbing, using your fingers to press crumbs evenly over the cauliflower's surface. Place the crumbed cauliflower spell on a baking tray together with repeat amongst the remaining cauliflower. Spray all of the pieces amongst stone oil together with bake them for 20-30 minutes, until they're tender within together with browned on the outside. Don't bother trying to plough them over mid-bake.