Cauliflower
Five throw-together recipes to make the most of bargain cauliflower (featuring easy cheesy parma)
Embrace the glorious cauli and all the wondrous ways you can call it dinner with these roasty-toasty ideas.
- Katrina Meynink
Spicy ‘fried’ cauliflower is your new easy vegan snack made for crunching, dipping and smooshing
Devour these healthy bite-sized morsels straight from the oven, or use them to dress up a bagel with avocado and sliced tomato. They’re even great cold, served smooshed onto a cracker with cheese.
- Yumi Stynes and Simon Davis
Adam Liaw’s roast cauliflower with sun-dried tomato and capsicum
This sun-dried tomato, capsicum and almond spread is a bit like a romesco sauce and can double as a dip or sandwich paste.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Adam Liaw
Cauliflower, thyme and potato soup with cheesy mustard croutons
The mustard cheese toastie bites are a wondrous addition, brining a touch of the old cauli bake flavour profile to this soup.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Katrina Meynink
Roast cauliflower bolognese
I'm a fan of cauliflower bolognese. A groupie. I'd follow it around on tour and buy the shirt. Yes, the dish has strayed a long way from its origins but the flavour, texture and enjoyment are full and immediate. Everyone it was fed to, including other peoples' children, neighbours and my own intense critics, demolished it.
- 1-2 hrs
- Katrina Meynink
Charred cauliflower salad with lemony whipped feta and pine nuts
This is a versatile, exciting dish to add to your Sunday dinner repertoire. Creamy, lively, fluffy whipped feta is full of salty charm, and is topped with irresistible smoky cauliflower and earthy pine nuts in a dish that will please the crowd. I love the sweetness of cauliflower, but you could also serve this with sauteed garlicky mushrooms, grilled eggplant or roasted broccoli. All you need is some crusty sourdough or flatbread to mop up all the punchy flavours.
- < 30 mins
- Hetty McKinnon
Vegetarian cauliflower ragu pasta
Make the most of affordable cauliflower in this veg-packed pasta dish.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Jessica Brook
Adam Liaw's loaded cauliflower
Loaded fries, poutine, chips and gravy – whatever you want to call it – can be even better without the chips. Or, if it helps you feel better, think of this as cauliflower cheese turned up a notch.
- 30 mins - 1 hr
- Adam Liaw
Adam Liaw's best buttered vegetables
These vegetables are cooked in a salty stock and pulled up through foaming butter for a deliciously rich coating. You can add any herbs you might have to the stock, for even more flavour.
- < 30 mins
- Adam Liaw
Danielle Alvarez's kale and cauliflower salad
It may be counter-intuitive, but autumn and winter are my favourite salad-making seasons. Hearty greens, such as kale, hold up well to punchy salad dressings and give lots of crunchy texture. This salad is a perfect canvas for other ingredients, too – whether parmesan or feta, almonds instead of pine nuts, or even protein in the form of wild salmon or chicken. It's salty, sweet, crunchy and bright – everything you need to keep you going through the colder months.
- < 30 mins
- Danielle Alvarez