Simple Cauliflower Rice Recipe

Learn how to cook this Simple Cauliflower Rice Recipe. Its impossible to not get it right, as a healthy vegetable side dish with main meals.

Simple Cauliflower Rice Recipe

The easiest and most simplest cauliflower rice recipe idea to create for a side dish with meals. You can not go wrong with this recipe. A healthy No Bake stove top cook with just butter and salt and pepper. Comes out so delicious you will want more. Use it in stir fries or alone and spruced up with greens and onions. But simple cauliflower rice is enough, with the taste of butter and the cooked veggies is to die for. I did. Great for lunch or dinner for all, kids will love it and so will fussy eaters that do not like veggies. Try it you wont regret it.

Is cauliflower rice better for you than rice?

I would say absolutely yes, as rice is higher in calories and carbohydrates and fill you up with out providing your body with much nutrients needed. How ever cauliflower rice provides your body with nutrients and vitamins and lowers the calories and carbohydrates. It will leave you place to add more protein or vegetables in your diet and in the meals served. So much more delicious and does not take time to cook.

Does cauliflower rice spike blood sugar?

Cauliflower rice has so much less carbs in than rice. Therefore it will not spike the blood sugar levels when replaced with cauliflower rice. So much more healthier and much tastier.

How to avoid soggy cauliflower rice?

To avoid soggy cauliflower rice, make sure you place the blended or grated cauliflower florets on a paper towel to have any moisture or liquid taken out of the cauliflower rice. Before sautéing in a pan. If you using frozen cauliflower rice you can do the same with the cooked rice.

Does cauliflower rice freeze well?

Yes, the cauliflower rice can be stored in the fridge for up to 3 days in sealed containers. It freezers well in sealed zip bags or containers for use to up to 1-3 months. Drain and dry the grated cauliflower before placing in sealed container before you store. To get out any moisture that may cause it to be soggy when cooked.

What can I do with too much cauliflower?

1. Use the cauliflower for meals, fresh.
2. make piccalilli with it and other veggies
3. keeps in fridge in a sealed plastic for up to a week
4. cut florets and par boil then to place in freezer
5. make some delicious cauliflower steaks
6. make cauliflower rice
7. mash the cauliflower with potato
8. Make casseroles
9. grill or roast florets for meals
10. pizza bases

Ingredients

1. cauliflower
2. butter
3. salt and pepper

To get all the amounts needed for this dish and the full instructions get the recipe attached at the bottom of the post. It can be downloaded and printed, and best of all use it online with the cook mode in the recipe, and the screen will not darken.

How To

This is such a simple recipe to cook for a rice recipe. Healthy side dish or main meal or use it for stir fries for that full filling addition. Its so tasty and simply easy to cook in a pan on the stove top.

Cut the florets small and then either grate with a grater on the larges holes. Or insert the florets in a small blender to make into rice size pieces.

With a medium warm pan on the stove plate, add some butter in and then the cauliflower rice. Sauté the rice. Sprinkle on the salt and pepper to taste. Bring it up to the medium heat, stir a little to toss all the rice around to cook evenly. Place a lid on the pan and leave to soften in the steam for a minute or two. This should take no more than 5 -8 minutes

Its a great way to substitute the heavy uninteresting rice for some healthy veggies, such as cauliflower rice. That is where starch would be. Also a great way to add more vegetables into your diet.

The best nutrient rich rice substitute for any meal as a side dish. You can spruce it up with any additions of onions or greens. IT will not disappoint.

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