Cauliflower is not loved only by someone who does not know how to cook it correctly. From this vegetable you can make a huge number of delicious dishes, but especially good snacks. Fragrant, tender, sharp and even rosy.
There is an incredible amount of interesting recipes, but here is the most successful selection.
Cauliflower Snack - General Cooking Principles
Cauliflower before preparing snacks is usually divided into florets. The size can be made arbitrary, but between themselves the pieces should be about the same. Large veins should be cut off immediately. Inflorescences are almost always boiled. This is usually done in plain water, sometimes with spices. But especially tasty cabbage turns out after cooking with milk addition. If after preliminary heat treatment the vegetable is fried or stewed, then it is enough for it to boil for 3-4 minutes. If cabbage is used in cold dishes, then the first cooking time increases.
What makes cabbage good:
• onions and carrots;
• Bulgarian pepper, tomatoes;
• eggplants, zucchini.
Often the vegetable is fried in batter or in breadcrumbs, such recipes are below. It can also be harvested for the winter, which is very convenient, since the price of this vegetable in the cold season is exorbitant.
Cauliflower Snacked Snack
One of the most win-win recipes for cauliflower. Small inflorescences in a ruddy crust just conquer their taste.
Ingredients
• 0.8 kg of cabbage;
• 150 g of cooking milk;
• salt pepper;
• 200 g of flour;
• 4 eggs;
• 100 g of water in the dough;
• 100 g of milk in the dough;
• 2 pinches of the ripper;
• liter of water for cabbage;
• vegetable oil.
Cooking
1. Divide the head into inflorescences. If necessary, use a knife, make approximately the same size pieces.
2. Boil water with milk, add spices and lay the inflorescences of prepared cabbage, but not all at once. Better to do it in batches. After boiling, cook for exactly 3 minutes and remove with a slotted spoon. Let the buds dry out. 3. Beat the eggs, add milk to them, then water, add salt and add flour. If two hundred grams is not enough, then add more. Should get a batter. Like dough for fritters. At the end add a teaspoon of vegetable oil, a couple of pinches of baking powder.
4. Give the batter to stand for fifteen minutes, then stir thoroughly again.
5. Heat the oil in a pan, make a layer about a centimeter.
6. Dip the pieces of cabbage into the batter, be sure to shake off the excess.
7. Spread in preheated oil, fry inflorescences on both sides until a beautiful crust. Take out, shift to the dish.
8. Serve warm cabbage snack with sour cream, ketchup, supplement with greens or fresh vegetables.
Korean Cauliflower Snack
This recipe for cauliflower uses a blend of Korean spices. But at will or need we take any seasoning at our own discretion and mix to taste. Do not forget about the red pepper, which will give the necessary sharpness.
Ingredients
• 400 g inflorescences;
• two carrots;
• four spoons of butter;
• two cloves of garlic;
• spoon of sugar;
• 20 ml of lemon juice;
• Spoon mixed Korean seasoning;
• greenery
• 2 tsp. salts;
• 0.3 tsp. hot pepper.
Cooking
1. Indicates the weight of the finished inflorescences. Boil ordinary water in a saucepan, lay the cabbage, boil for 3-4 minutes. Better to try. The pieces should reach half-ready, remain dense, but change the taste.
2. Pour the cabbage into a colander. In the pan leave 40 ml of broth, it is needed for the marinade.
3. Cut the greens. You can use any kind of mixture, at its discretion. Chop the garlic.
4. Peel the carrot, grate it with a long neat straw.
5. Put the cabbage in a bowl, sprinkle with herbs and garlic. Top spread cooked carrots.
6. Return the saucepan with the rest of the broth after the cabbage to the stove, add butter and lemon juice, cover Korean spices with red pepper. Boil. Lemon juice can be replaced with vinegar.
7. Pour the marinade over the carrot, quickly stir the snack. 8. Transfer to a container with a lid, for example, in a container, put in the refrigerator for five hours. You can periodically turn upside down and vice versa, so that the flowing juices with spices evenly soak up the snack.
Marinated cauliflower snack in a quick way
This appetizer will be ready in a few hours, but it's best to let it stand in the fridge for 24 hours. You need to cook in glass jars. The number of spices is calculated per liter of marinade.
Ingredients
• head of cabbage;
• litere of water;
• a pair of tablespoons of salt;
• a couple of tablespoons of sugar;
• 0.5 cups of oil;
• 2 tsp. essences;
• 3-4 cloves of garlic;
• laurel, peppercorns, any spices to your taste.
Cooking
1. Divide head into inflorescences. It is better not to marinate large pieces in order to compactly place the vegetable in banks.
2. Pour the cabbage with boiling water for a couple of minutes. Throw in a colander.
3. In the jar at the bottom to throw bay leaf and peppercorns. Top filled with prepared buds. It is not necessary to cool, periodically lay the garlic pieces.
4. Boil a liter of water, add sugar and salt, add oil with vinegar. Boil a minute.
5. Pour the jars of cabbage marinade. Put on the neck of the cap.
6. Allow to cool, then refrigerate for further pickling.
7. After 4-5 hours, pickled cabbage can be tasted. Before serving, fragrant inflorescences are supplemented with greens, chopped bell pepper and other vegetables.
Cauliflower Snack for Winter
The recipe for a great preparation for the winter. For such a cauliflower will need fresh tomatoes, they will be used for pouring.
Ingredients
• 600 grams of tomatoes;
• 100 g of sweet pepper;
• 1 kg of cabbage;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 50 grams of sugar;
• 1 tbsp. l common salt;
• 70 ml rast. oils;
• 60 ml of vinegar.
Cooking
1. Slice the tomatoes and scroll through the blender. You can chop the tomatoes in a meat grinder. If the presence of seeds is embarrassing, then use a juicer.
2. Cut the pepper into cubes, throw in the tomatoes. 3. Put the tomato on the stove, even if it is heated.
4. Wash the cabbage, divide into inflorescences, throw in a tomato.
5. Cook all together for exactly twenty minutes. No need to worry that cabbage limp, tomato acid will not allow it.
6. Chop or simply chop the garlic, prepare butter and spices. After twenty minutes of cooking, lay all this to the cabbage, stir.
7. After another three minutes, pour in vinegar. To make a spicy snack, simply add the ground chilli pod.
8. Give the mass to boil with vinegar and immediately shift to sterile jars, roll up.
Cauliflower and Eggplant Appetizer
Another option is a delicious cauliflower snack for the winter. But this time with eggplant. It turns out very fragrant and colorful.
Ingredients
• 1.5 kg of cauliflower;
• 2.5 liters of tomato juice;
• 1 kg of pepper;
• 1.5 kg of eggplants;
• 200 ml of oil;
• 200 ml of vinegar;
• 150 g of sugar;
• salt to taste.
Cooking
1. Slice the eggplants in neat slices or sticks, sprinkle with salt, leave for thirty minutes.
2. Pepper seeds, cut into strips.
3. Cabbage to make out. Throw florets in boiling water and boil for exactly three minutes.
4. Pour tomato juice into the pan, put on the stove.
5. Immediately add the chopped peppers, put the blanched cabbage.
6. Rinse the eggplants, squeeze, put in the pan to the rest of the vegetables. Bring to a boil and boil for twenty minutes. But the fire at this time decreases.
7. Add sugar, lay vinegar and vegetable oil. All thoroughly stir and only then try on the salt. Sometimes eggplants actively absorb it. Add to taste.
8. We mix everything together once more and we spread out on sterile jars, we roll.
Cauliflower snack in breadcrumbs
For the preparation of such a snack you will need ordinary breadcrumbs. You can buy or make them yourself, but use only white bread. It is possible to use chopped salty cracker for boning cabbage, it will turn out very tasty. Sometimes mixed croutons with sesame seeds can also be done. Ingredients
• medium head of cabbage;
• three eggs;
• crackers (how many will leave);
• spices to taste;
• oil for frying.
Cooking
1. Head to wash, divided into inflorescences. Throw them in boiling water and boil for about 7-8 minutes until soft. Water needs to be salted, you can add spices.
2. Beat three eggs with a fork, you can add any spices to them.
3. Heat oil in a skillet.
4. In a bowl pour the breadcrumbs.
5. Moisten the inflorescences in the egg, roll in the breadcrumbs and immediately put in the pan. It is advisable to fry cauliflower in deep fat so that there is a beautiful crust on all sides. But you can add oil in a small amount, but then the crust will not be from all sides.
6. We spread on napkins, we give to absorb excess fat, we shift on a plate, we serve a snack to the table.
Cauliflower Snack - Tips and Tricks
• In insects of cabbage very often live different insects. Therefore, before cooking the vegetable, you need to hold it in cold salted water for the “residents” to leave it.
• Inflorescences will remain white and beautiful. If, when cooking, add a spoonful of regular granulated sugar to the pan.
• The taste of cabbage will be much better if you add some sugar to the marinades and dressings for snacks.
• Vinegar is not very useful, besides not everyone likes its flavor. In some dishes, it is beautifully replaced by lemon juice. Or you can try adding apple, wine and other types of vinegar.
