Guest Post: Snack Girl’s Roasted Yummyflower
Lisa’s site, www.snack-girl.com is chock- full of fantastic recipes! A while back, I tried her No Bake Brownie Ball recipe which was easy, delicious and healthy. Lisa (aka Snack Girl) kindly offered to share another one of her healthy snack recipes. Please welcome, Snack Girl! Enjoy 
Roasted YUMMYflower
You can eat 2 cups of cauliflower and only add 88 calories to your waistline. Not only that, but the stuff is really good for you. This is one of the vegetables your doctor is telling you to eat.
But, it has this odiferous, sulfurous, bitter taste thing going on. And the texture, when raw, is a little strange. If you don’t like raw or steamed cauliflower, don’t worry. You are part of a large group of children and adults who avoid the stuff.
How do you get it to be enjoyable to eat? Add a teaspoon of sugar and suddenly it is a different animal. That bitter taste disappears and you have this lovely sweet flavor that even a 3 year old would love. I know, because my 3 year old wouldn’t stop eating it.
Alex, my 3 year old, is going through an "I only like macaroni-and-cheese phase" now and HE liked this recipe. You can’t get a better endorsement than that.
There are two steps to this recipe and the first requires marinating. I know it is onerous to marinate food, but in this case it does make a difference. The good news is you can make a tray of this and it will last all week. The extra work will pay off!
To make this recipe into a more adult flavor, add the pepper. The pepper makes it spicy so you have a sweet and sour taste that is divine. It also makes a great party snack and you can make it ahead and just serve it from the fridge.
Roasted Cauliflower Recipe
(serves 4)
8 cups cauliflower from one large head
1/8 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper (optional)
Chop cauliflower into small florets. Preheat oven to 450 F. Mix ingredients together in a large bowl and marinate for 20 minutes mixing once. Place on aluminum foil lined, rimmed baking sheet and roast for 20 minutes. Serve hot, cold, or room temperature.
Lisa Cain, Ph.D., is an avid healthy snacker, foodie, published author, and mother of 2. An evolutionary biologist by training, she has become obsessed with how food contributes to our overall health.
Check out http://www.snack-girl.com/ for other healthy snack ideas.
Questions? Email me! aloserforlife@gmail.com
15 comments
Great recipe! I love cauliflower roasted this way and I haven’t done it in so long! Thanks for the reminder girls!
I do enjoy cauliflower now as an adult, I will have to try this recipe.
I love cauliflower and this looks like an interesting fun new way to cook it. Variety is the spice of life!
That sounds delicious! Will definitely try this. Do you think Olive Oil or Canola Oil will work in place of Veg. Oil? That’s all I have at home!
Thanks for the recipe.
Yes, use whatever oil you have and it will work!
Heating the oven right now and cauliflower is marinating!!!! Can’t wait to try it. Thanks.
I can’t wait to try this. Right now, I just chop it and put it raw in salads or in my stir fry’s. I know my family would LOVE this variety, and you are right 2 cups for only 88 calories…SCORE!
I roast it but never thought to marinate it first – thanks for the great recipe.
i never thought of adding sugar! good idea…..
Thank you – this sounds yummy!
Ive got the cauliflower cut and ready to go.. Thanks for the suggestion…
Delish – another fabulous snack
This is a wonderful snack! And I love cauliflower!
mmm sugar and cauliflower! how can you go wrong?!
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