Delicious cauliflower side dish: how to cook and serve? The benefits of meals and step by step recipes

Cauliflower is an annual vegetable crop that appeared in Russia thanks to Catherine II. For a long time, the taste qualities of such a vegetable could only be appreciated by rich grandees.

Today, everyone has the opportunity to grow in their backyards, buy in the nearest stores and eat cauliflower.

What garnish for meat can be made from it? And what is best combined with a similar vegetable? Next, we will tell you how to cook cauliflower for a side dish and what to add to make it tasty.

Benefit and harm

Moreover, if we talk about the content in this product of fats, proteins and carbohydrates, they also change up or down during the heat treatment of cabbage. You can see the exact ratio of these parameters in the table below.

What is useful cauliflower? It contains:

• vitamin H;
• vitamin PP;
• vitamin K;
• vitamin E;
• vitamin A;
• vitamin D;
• various macronutrients (magnesium, sodium, phosphorus, etc.);
• various trace elements (zinc, iron, copper).

Cauliflower contains 2 times more vitamin C than white cabbage.

Besides, thanks to a rather thin checkered structure, cauliflower is easier to digest, and, therefore, brings to the human body a greater number of nutrients.

It is for this reason that food from this product is recommended for children, as well as adults who have the following diseases:

• ulcer;
• gastritis;
• liver disease;
• gallbladder disease.

We offer to watch a video about the benefits of cauliflower:

Step-by-step recipes

Not every person likes to spend a lot of time in the kitchen. It is for this reason that a lot of recipes for tasty and healthy dishes are created, which take very little time to cook (for more information about the various cauliflower recipes you can find here). One of them is fried cauliflower with champignons.

Take:

• cabbage forks - 400 g;
• mushrooms - champignons - 200 g;
• carrots - 1 pc .;
• repch onions - 1 pc .;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l .;
• salt and spices to taste.

Step-by-step recipe:

1. Rinse the cauliflower well.
2. Cut the leaves, disassemble the forks into buds.
3. Pour into a pot of water, put on fire.
4. Dip the inflorescences in boiling water, cook for 3 minutes.
5. Drain water through a colander, wash the cabbage with cold water.
6. Wash carrots and onions, peel them.
7. Grate the carrots on a coarse grater, cut the onion into small cubes.
8. Put the pan on the fire, pour vegetable oil on it.
9. Fry the onions and carrots until golden brown.
10. Rinse the champignons well.
11. Slice them into medium thickness.
12. Add mushrooms to roasted carrots and onions, salt and pepper to taste.
13. Simmer the mixture until all the water is out of the mushrooms.
14. Add boiled cabbage to the pan.
15. Stir all ingredients, add spices if necessary.
16. Add sour cream and let the vegetables simmer for 2-3 minutes over low heat.
17. Serve cooked food warm.

We offer you to watch a video recipe for cooking cauliflower with mushrooms:

With macaroni: even kids love

Is it possible to disguise vegetables in such a way that children will also enjoy eating them? Of course, you can, if it is macaroni with cheese and with a small "surprise".

Prepare:

• Pasta, which the child loves - 200 - 300 g;
• cabbage - 200 - 300 g;
• flour - 2 - 3 tbsp. l .;
• any hard cheese - 200 g;
• Milk - 400 - 500 ml;
• butter - 70 - 100 g;
• salt and spices (as needed).

How to cook:

1. Prepare the cabbage, as in the previous recipe.
2. Boil it for 7 to 10 minutes and drain it in a colander.
3. Cook the pasta.
4. Mix melted butter and flour in a small saucepan or ladle.
5. Put the dishes on the fire and gently, stirring constantly, add milk to the ingredients.
6. Bring to a boil.
7. Reduce the heat and simmer for 5-7 minutes until the sauce thickens.
8. Add salt and spices if necessary.
9. Grate the cheese on a fine grater and add to the still hot sauce.
10. Combine boiled macaroni and cauliflower in the same dish, pour sauce over the mixture.
11. Mix well and serve.

We offer to see a video recipe for cooking cauliflower with pasta:

Diet for the lazy: add buckwheat

The recipe for buckwheat with cauliflower, shown below, is very useful to all those who watch their figure. Enter such a dish into your diet and see for yourself how the healthy ingredients help you lose weight.

Take:

• buckwheat - 200 g;
• cauliflower - 200 g;
• spinach - 100 - 150 g;
• Rep.Luk - 1 pc .;
• lemon - 1 pc .;
• olive oil;
• salt and spices (if possible, their use should be minimized).

Cooking:

1. Rinse the cabbage, cut the leaves, disassemble the head into inflorescences.
2. Onions wash, clean, cut into half rings.
3. Heat the pan over medium heat, pour olive oil on it.
4. Put onion and cabbage in the pan, add spices, fry until cooked foods.
5. Boil buckwheat using any convenient recipe.
6. Wash the leaves of spinach, cut it into small strips.
7. Add to the ready vegetables in the pan spinach, stew everything for 5 minutes.
8. Wash the lemon, cut it in half, squeeze the juice out of one half.
9. Add lemon juice to vegetables.
10. Put the contents of the pan in buckwheat, mix everything well.

We offer to see a video recipe for cooking cauliflower with buckwheat:

With rice - fast, tasty and healthy.

Another simple, quick and healthy recipe is rice stewed with cauliflower. To prepare such a dish, you will need:

• long grain rice - 250 g;
• cabbage - 250 g;
• tomatoes - 2 - 3 pcs .;
• garlic - 2-3 cloves;
• salt and spices.

Cooking with step by step recipe:

1. Rinse the rice well, put it in the pan.
2. Pour the cereal 500 ml of cold water, put the dishes on fire.
3. Rinse the cauliflower well and prepare it as in previous recipes.
4. Lay it to the rice as soon as the water boils.
5. Simmer the contents of the pan for 15 to 20 minutes.
6. Rinse the tomatoes well and pour in boiling water.
7. Remove the skin from them, finely chop the flesh.
8. Chop 2-3 cloves of garlic with a knife or garlic press.
9. Add everything to the pan where the rice and cabbage are stewed.
10. Stir, add the required amount of salt and spices.
11. Stew the dish for another 10 minutes and can be served.

Bake with potatoes

Such a delicious vegetable casserole will not leave indifferent either children or adults. In addition, the preparation of such a dish takes about 15-20 minutes, the rest of the time, the products reach the readiness in the oven.

Take:

• potatoes - 5 - 6 pcs .;
• cauliflower - 200 - 300 g;
• repch onions - 1 pc .;
• carrots - 1 pc .;
• sweet red pepper - 1 pc .;
• chicken eggs - 3 pcs .;
• sour cream - 3 tbsp. l .;
• salt and spices.

How to cook:

1. Wash the potatoes, boil it in salted water until half cooked.
2. Prepare the cauliflower, boil in salted water for 5 minutes (for more information about the process of boiling can be found here).
3. Wash peppers, onions and carrots.
4. Peel carrots, rub on a fine grater.
5. Peel the onions, cut into small cubes.
6. Remove the seeds from the pepper, cut into thin strips.
7. Preheat pan on fire, add vegetable oil.
8. Fry onions, carrots and peppers until tender, add spices.
9. Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes.
10. Take a baking dish, grease it with vegetable oil.
11. Put the potatoes and cauliflower on the bottom, spread the ready fried mixture on top.
12. Mix 3 eggs, sour cream and salt in a separate dish.
13. Fill them with a baking dish.
14. Preheat oven to 200 degrees and bake the dish for 20-25 minutes.

What else can you cook?

With broccoli

1. Boil well-washed cauliflower blossoms (300 g) and broccoli (300 g) in salted water for 10 minutes.
2. Mix melted butter (100 g), flour (1 tablespoon) and fat cream (400 ml) in one dish.
   Bring sauce to a boil, add hard cheese grated on a fine grater (100g) and necessary spices.
3. Grease the baking dish with vegetable oil, put boiled vegetables in it, pour them over with sauce and bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

We offer to see a video recipe for cooking cauliflower with broccoli:

With beans

1. Rinse the beans well (200 g) and soak them in cold water overnight. Boil the beans in salted water for about 1.5 hours until fully cooked.
2. Prepared cauliflower (300 g) boil in salted water for 7 to 10 minutes (more nuances about how much to boil cauliflower can be found here). Rinse and peel carrots and onions (1 pc each). Grate carrots, cut onions into large cubes.
3. Fry vegetables until cooked in a pan, add to them finely chopped sweet pepper (1 pc.), 2 cloves of chopped garlic and cauliflower.
4. Add spices, simmer for 20 minutes. Add the finished beans to the pan, mix everything, add spices if necessary. Stew the dish for another 5 to 10 minutes and can be served.

With carrots

1. Boil the prepared cauliflower in salted water (1 l) for 5-7 minutes. Put it in a colander, but do not drain the water.
2. Add 9% vinegar (250 ml), sugar (200 g), salt (1.5 tablespoons) and vegetable oil (2 tablespoons) to water, boil everything for 5 minutes.

   Put the finished cabbage in a deep bowl, fill it with the resulting marinade.

3. Well washed and peeled carrots (2 pcs.), Rub on a coarse grater, and mix with chopped garlic (4 cloves). Wait until the marinade has cooled, add garlic-carrot mixture and spices to it.
4. Put the dish in the fridge for 5-8 hours.

Table feed options

Since cauliflower, as an independent dish, is not often used for food, its presentation options directly depend on the products with which this vegetable is prepared.

• If cabbage is part of the salad, then it can be put on a flat dish, decorated with green lettuce.
• If the vegetables are baked, then the finished dish can be sprinkled with finely chopped fresh herbs and pour over any sauce.
• If the cauliflower is mixed with any cereals, then when serving, the dish can be supplemented with fresh vegetables, cut into large slices.

Same rather original looking meat dish with cauliflowercalled "lamb". For its preparation, minced meat is used, in which inflorescences depicting the sheep's wool are stuck.

So, cauliflower is a rather unique product. However, in order for such a vegetable to saturate the body of a small child or an adult with the necessary amount of vitamins, macro and microelements, it is necessary to learn how to choose it correctly. Dense, heavy head of cabbage, the absence of dark spots and elastic leaves - these are the main signs of fresh cauliflower, which can be eaten.

Watch the video: Keto Recipe - Cauliflower Mushroom Risotto (May 2024).