Cauliflower is the magic wand of modern hostesses. Mediterranean vegetable is valued as an honored guest on the tables of people with diseases of the digestive system. It is an indispensable ingredient in children's lures, fitness menu.
Light-violet, snow-white, bright orange inflorescences can be prepared in any kitchen utensils, but the useful properties of the product can be saved only by a delicate heat treatment in a slow cooker.
Cauliflower field - Syria, because it is called Syrian. Vegetable is often called "smart" cabbage, comparing with the convolutions of the brain.
Steam cooking
The fashioned Japanese kitchen appliance-multicooker has a variety of modes, among which the function of the double boiler is the most loved and popular among hostesses: the effect of steam does not affect the loss of vitamins. Steam cooking also eliminates the use of fat.
“Smart” cabbage is easier to digest, waist does not threaten extra centimeters.
More details about the benefits and dangers of steamed cabbage, as well as cooking methods can be found here.
Benefit and harm
The nutritional value of inflorescences of 30 kcal helps to maintain and improve the taut body shape. In 100 g of the product, only 5 g of proteins, 3 g of fat, 2 g of carbohydrates, 1 g of dietary fiber and 90 g of water. There are indoles in the chemical composition - elements that eliminate obesity and improve metabolic processes. Cauliflower is a storehouse of vitamins B, E, H, as well as flavonoids and anti-cancer substances.
Syrian cabbage is included in the menu of patients with anorexia. It normalizes intestinal motility, removes depression and eating disorders of motivation.
Owners of peptic ulcer and urolithiasis, gastritis of high acidity during the period of exacerbation of a vegetable is contraindicated. Heartburn - the first command to stop eating.
Next, we will tell you how to cook steamed and otherwise fresh and frozen vegetables.
Vegetable pretreatment
The head-head is freed from foliage and dark apical inflorescences, cut from the side of the stem into two parts. From each half the inflorescences are separated with the ends 2 cm long. In the slow cooker, 1 multi-glass of water is poured and the container-double boiler with cabbage is installed. How much to cook depends on the mode; on average, in Quenching, Cooking, Steamed modes, cabbage is cooked for 10 to 30 minutes.
Washed frozen cabbage is available to grocery stores all year round.. The package contains vitamins, taste and shape of the inflorescence.
Covered in water, not thawed, the semi-finished product is cooked in a multicooker bowl for 10-30 minutes in the mode of "Quenching", "Cooking", or on a stand in the "Steam" program. After the timer is turned off, the water is drained, the cabbage, if desired, is sprinkled with salt and other spices.
In supermarkets should buy frozen semi-finished product. It stores useful properties. Fresh cabbage makes a long way to the counter, and the benefits persist for only 10 days. Cauliflower is both a separate dish and an ingredient for culinary delights.
Step-by-step recipes with photos
The following recipes are suitable for the Redmond multicooker and other companies.
Casserole
- Frozen cauliflower - pack of 400 g.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Medium carrots - 1 pc.
- Milk - 1st.
- Hard cheese - 100 gr.
- Sour cream - 60 gr.
- Chicken egg - 1 pc.
How to bake:
- Place iced cabbage inflorescences on the bottom of the saucepan, carefully lubricated with vegetable oil.
- Peel and chop the onion into rings, mix with cabbage.
- Pass through a large grater peeled carrots and cheese, covering them with onions and cabbage.
- In a separate bowl, mix the sour cream with egg and milk, add spices and salt to them.
- Pour the mixture into the multicooker pan.
- Enable baking mode for 35 minutes.
- Use a spatula to divide the casserole into portions.
- Put baked cabbage on plates and serve with greens.
Stewed with vegetables
- Cauliflower - 400 g
- Pumpkin - 300 g
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Pureed tomatoes - 3 tbsp. l
- Sour cream - 100 g
- Red pepper, salt - to taste.
- Sugar - 2 tsp.
- Vegetable broth or water - 200 ml.
- Ground paprika - 2 tsp.
How to cook:
- Divide the cauliflower into inflorescences and cook in a slow cooker for 10 minutes "Steamed".
- Peel the onions.
- Pour the vegetable oil into the multicooker bowl, put the chopped onion and pumpkin, grated on a large grater, turn on the mode "Frying" for 10 minutes.
- Stir fry vegetables until signal.
- Add boiled cauliflower to the bowl, set the mode "Frying" for 10 minutes.
- All gently mix. Mix tomatoes with sour cream, red pepper, paprika and sugar.
Tomato-cream sauce pour carrots, onions, cabbage.
- Add black ground pepper, salt to taste.
- Pour in water or hot broth. For 15 minutes set the mode "Quenching".
- Serve in a warm dish.
To learn how to make a tasty stew with cauliflower and other vegetables, read our material.
Omelette Top
- Cauliflower - 7-8 pcs.
- Eggs - 4 tbsp.
- Milk - 0.5 tbsp.
- Salt to taste.
- Spread the cauliflower blossoms on the dry bottom of the multicooker.
- Be sure to salt.
- Beat 4 eggs with a mixer or whisk along with salt.
- Add milk to mix, mix.
- Pour cauliflower with egg-milk mixture.
- Enable the mode "Milk porridge".
- When the omelette rises and becomes dense, place a baking sheet over the top so that the cabbage is cooked faster.
- After 10 minutes, omelette to serve on the table with greens and fresh vegetables.
Read more about cooking cauliflower omelet here.
Breaded
- Chicken egg - 2 pcs.
- Cabbage inflorescences - 500 g
- Milk - 0.5 tbsp.
- Flour - 1.3 tbsp.
- Olive and sesame oil - 2 tbsp. l
- Greens, pepper, salt.
- Rinse cauliflower, disassemble into inflorescences, sprinkle with salt.
- For batter, break eggs into a bowl and whisk, season with herbs and spices.
- Add flour and milk.
- The batter is determined by a thick consistency.
- Roll the inflorescences in batter and put them in a multicooker bowl, which must be greased with olive oil mixed with sesame.
- In the "Baking" mode, bake the dish for 30 minutes.
More nuances about cooking cauliflower in batter can be found here, and how to cook a vegetable in batter in a griddle can be found here.
With egg
- Cabbage - 400 gr.
- Mustard - 1 tsp.
- Mayonnaise - 3 tbsp. l
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Milk - 0.5 tbsp.
- Cheese - 200 gr.
- Flour - 1 tbsp.
- Cabbage divided into inflorescences.
- Boil in a slow cooker in the "Cooking" mode for 15 minutes.
- Make the dough by mixing flour, eggs, milk, mustard and mayonnaise.
- Grind boiled cabbage.
- Pour dough and sprinkle with grated cheese.
- Enable the "Baking" feature for 25 minutes.
- Cauliflower with egg in a slow cooker decorate with greens.
Learn more about cooking cabbage with eggs here.
With cheese
- Cauliflower - 450 gr.
- Hard cheese - 250 gr.
- Butter - 40 gr.
- Turn on the slow cooker for 30 minutes in the "Baking" mode.
- Within 2 minutes, melt the butter, fry inflorescences for 25 minutes.
- Skip hard cheese through a large grater.
- 5 minutes before the end of the program, sprinkle with cheese cabbage.
Divide the dish into portions, serve to the table.
How to prepare cabbage with cheese in a creamy sauce, read here.
Soup
- Cauliflower - 350 gr.
- Average carrot - 1 pc.
- Chicken broth or water - 1 l.
- Pasta - 200 gr.
- Large potato - 2 pcs.
- Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l
- Parsley, spices to taste.
How to cook:
- Peel the vegetables.
- Finely chop the onion, process it for 10 minutes in the "Frying" mode.
- Cut the potatoes into small cubes and, after the end of the program, send them into a container with water or chicken broth.
- Chop the cabbage, add to the slow cooker with spices.
- Set the program "Quenching" for 1.5 hours.
- After 1 hour, send parsley and pasta to the rest of the ingredients.
Warm soup to serve on the table in portions.
Learn more about the recipes for cauliflower soups here.
How to cook with meat or minced meat?
- Cauliflower - 350 gr.
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
- Onions - 2 pcs.
- Beef or ground beef - 900 gr.
- Pickles - 2-3 pieces
- Spices to taste.
- Disassemble the cabbage into inflorescences.
- Chop the Bulgarian pepper and onion finely.
- Dice meat, fry in oil in the "Frying" mode for 20 minutes.
- In the absence of meat, minced meat should be subjected to the same heat treatment.
- Cucumbers cut into circles.
- All the ingredients put in a slow cooker.
- Set the mode "Quenching" for 50 minutes.
- The finished dish is decorated with greens.
Read how to cook cabbage with minced meat in our article, and a few recipes with different types of meat can be found here.
With bird fillet
- Cauliflower - 400 gr.
- Chicken or turkey fillet (you can take chicken breast) - 750 gr.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Sour cream 20% - 4 tbsp. l
- Spices to taste.
- Peeled onions cut into rings, put in a bowl.
- Lay the cabbage in a slow cooker.
- To clear bird fillet from skin and films, cut into cubes, lay out to vegetables.
- Season the products with spices and sour cream.
- Set the mode "Quenching" for 30 minutes.
Serve warm.
More details about cooking cabbage with chicken can be found here.
Quick recipe
- Cauliflower - 250 gr.
- Water - 1 tbsp.
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Olive oil - 2 tbsp.
- Greens, salt to taste.
- Prepare a slow cooker for the "Steamed" mode for inflorescences, pouring water into the bowl and installing a steam container.
- Set the timer to 5 minutes.
- Tomatoes and cucumbers cut in neat sticks.
- Put in a bowl for salad.
- Onion cut into half rings, add to vegetables.
- Put the prepared cabbage into a salad bowl, season with oil, herbs, spices.
Bring to the table with sprigs of parsley.
Cauliflower dishes are decorated with greens: a sprig of basil or cilantro gives the food a special flavor. Vegetables are served with lean meat, favorite sauce, and a side dish of cereals. The Redmond cooker, indispensable in the kitchen, will cook meat, a side dish and sauce, preserving the healthy ingredients of the products.
