Cauliflower is one of the most healthy foods. With a low calorie content, it contains a lot of vitamins, macro- and microelements necessary for the body, most of which are preserved even during heat treatment. You can cook this vegetable in different ways. One of the easiest is to fry. However, you need to know how to fry cauliflower in a frying pan, so that it turns out tasty and retains its beneficial properties.
Cooking Features
Knowing some of the secrets will allow you to cook many nutritious dishes in a cauliflower pan.
- For frying in a pan, not only fresh cauliflower is suitable, but also frozen. Defrost it is not necessary - just boil for 2-3 minutes in salted water, then remove with a slotted spoon and let the water drain. After that, you need to cook it in the same way as fresh, following the instructions in the recipe.
- When choosing fresh cauliflower for frying, it is better to prefer the recently harvested one. Her leaves are fresh and green. Dry leaves are evidence that the cabbage has been lying for a long time and is also not fresh enough. Also, do not take the cabbages, the inflorescences are covered with dark spots - it is rot, which quickly spreads, making the cabbage unsuitable for human consumption. But the milky hue of the inflorescences does not say about the quality of the cabbage: it depends on the vegetable variety and the conditions for growing it (in the sun or in the shade).
- Before cooking, cabbage should be washed and disassembled into inflorescences, then dip them in salted water. Salt need to take a teaspoon with a slide per liter of water. After 10 minutes from the surface of the water will need to collect insects and caterpillars, which will certainly emerge, and wash the inflorescences again and wait for them to drain water.
- Most of the recipes for cooking cauliflower fried in a frying pan imply pre-boiling it, but there is no need for this if you prefer the cabbage to be crispy. You can not boil it, and immediately fry. But at the same time note that the pre-boiling cabbage reduces its cooking time in the pan, so that it absorbs less oil and is not too high in calories. A short boiling (up to 5 minutes) does not hurt.
- If the recipe for preparing cabbage in batter or breading is chosen, it is better not to cut off the legs of the inflorescences during cold processing of the cabbage - for them it is convenient to hold it, dipping it in the dough. However, you can do without legs, dipping inflorescences with a fork.
- First, cabbage is fried on medium or even high heat, so that it becomes covered with a crust, which will protect it from the loss of useful substances. Then the fire is removed to a minimum, the pan covered with a lid and fry the cabbage until done. If you use batter, then you need to fry all the time on medium heat in a sufficient amount of oil.
For the rest, preparation depends on the recipe you chose.
How to Fry Cauliflower Quickly
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0.5 kg;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much is required for frying;
- garlic (optional) - 2 cloves.
Method of preparation:
- Prepared cauliflower (washed, disassembled into small inflorescences), boil in salted water to taste within 4-5 minutes after boiling.
- Cut the garlic into plates and fry in a large amount of oil until the plates darken. Catch them from the oil and discard - they have already done their job, giving the fragrance to the oil.
- Remove the cabbage with a slotted spoon or fold it in a colander. When the water is drained, put in the pan with boiling oil.
- Fry over medium heat without a lid until the cabbage gets an appetizing shade and begins to cover with a light crust.
Serve such cabbage as a side dish or main course. In the latter case, it is suitable garlic sauce.
How to fry cauliflower in breading
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0, 5-0, 6 kg;
- breadcrumbs - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pcs .;
- greens (optional) - 50 g;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil - how much is required for frying.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the cabbage, disassemble into inflorescences, not too small. Boil in salted water to taste for 3-5 minutes. Throw in a colander to glass the water.
- Finely chop the greens and mix it with the breadcrumbs.
- Beat the eggs with a fork.
- Dip each inflorescence in the egg, roll in breadcrumbs and put in a pan with boiling oil.
- Fry over medium heat until cooked, not forgetting to periodically turn over so that an appetizing crust forms on all sides.
Cabbage fried in breading is an independent dish. Serve it with sour cream.
Cauliflower in batter
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0, 5-0, 6 kg;
- egg - 2 pcs .;
- milk - 100-120 ml;
- salt - to taste;
- ground black pepper to taste;
- flour - 80-100 g;
- vegetable oil - how much is needed for frying.
Method of preparation:
- Wash cauliflower. Disassembling it into inflorescences, make sure that they are medium in size: too large cut in half.
- Dip the cabbage in salted water and cook for a couple of minutes. If you want the cabbage to remain crispy, you can fry it in the pan without cooking.
- Beat the eggs.
- Sift flour, mix with salt and black pepper, add them to taste.
- Add a little flour to the eggs, stirring everything well every time so that there are no lumps.
- Dissolve the dough with milk until you get the consistency of liquid sour cream.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan.
- Dip each inflorescence into a batter, put it in a frying pan and fry on all sides until golden brown.
Cauliflower in batter is a tasty and satisfying dish that is cooked very quickly. Serve it with cheese sauce.
Cauliflower in cheese batter
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0, 6-0, 7 kg;
- beer - 100-125 ml;
- egg - 2 pcs .;
- flour - 80-100 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- salt - to taste;
- seasonings - to taste;
- vegetable oil - on demand.
Method of preparation:
- Disassemble the cabbage into medium sized inflorescences, wash them and boil them for 2–3 minutes for a couple.
- Finely rub the cheese.
- Beat up eggs, mix them with flour, salt and pepper, grated cheese.
- Dilute with beer until a dough has a consistency resembling liquid sour cream.
- Dip the cabbage inflorescences into the dough, fry them until golden brown on all sides in a frying pan with hot oil.
- Put in a colander to glass excess oil.
Such cabbage is an excellent snack for beer or wine, but you can eat it, of course, without them. This dish will appeal to cheese lovers.
Original fried cauliflower recipe
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0, 6-0, 7 kg;
- milk - 125 ml;
- chicken egg - 2 pcs .;
- semolina - 50 g;
- salt, spices - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as required.
Method of preparation:
- Disperse the cauliflower into small florets, cut medium and small into several pieces. Rinse well and place in a deep frying pan. If the cabbage is frozen, simply pour it into the pan.
- Pour half a glass of water into the pan, salt to taste, add spices and put on medium heat, cover the pan with a lid.
- When water boils away, add butter to the cabbage, stir and start to fry.
- Beat the milk, semolina and egg together, lightly salt it.
- Pour the cabbage over the mixture, stir quickly and fry for another 10 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally. It is not necessary to mix constantly, as otherwise the cabbage will not acquire an appetizing hue.
The dish turns out very tasty. It will be even more tasty if you pour it with cheese sauce.
Cauliflower fried with sausages
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0, 4-0, 5 kg;
- hunting sausages - 0, 3 kg;
- eggplant - 0, 2 kg;
- onions - 100 g;
- carrots - 100 g;
- dill - to taste;
- salt - to taste;
- vegetable oil - as required.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the cabbage by disassembling it into small florets, washing and soaking it in salted water to remove insects.
- Cut eggplants into cubes, dip for half an hour in salt water, rinse and dry.
- Peel and chop the onion.
- Coarsely grate carrots.
- Cut the sausages into circles.
- Fry onions and carrots in a deep frying pan.
- After 5 minutes add the eggplants to them, fry another 5 minutes.
- Add the sausages, fry them together with the eggplants for 5 minutes.
- Put cauliflower in the same pan, fry the vegetables for another 5 minutes.
- Salt, pepper, add dill and cover with a little water (half a glass is enough).
- Cover and extinguish until the water has evaporated almost completely.
This unusual cauliflower dish conquers from the first spoon.
Frying cauliflower in a frying pan is easy. The process of cooking delicious dishes does not take much time. Meanwhile, the dishes are appetizing, tasty, nourishing.
