Saturday, July 17, 2010

Roasted Cauliflower Steaks!

Having become a fan of the Aarti Paarti blog / YouTube channel, I surfing through their recipes, I came across the following: Roasted Cauliflower Steaks. AND I had a cauliflower from the local farmers market. Could I become any healthier? :) The dish is extremely simple to make. My twist was that I just seasoned the Cauliflower with salt, pepper, cumin and garam masala. The original recipe has amchur (dried mango powder) and I was so hungry, that I didn't have the patience to try and find my amchur! Oh, and I didn't have greek yogurt, just standard low-fat yogurt in which I added a little microplaned ginger. Now although the twisted raita was edible, I did find it a little runny, so I would recommend you use full-fat/strained or greek yogurt. And the ginger - nah! It was a nice try! LOL

1 medium cauliflower head, stripped of leaves and stalk chopped off
2 tbsp olive oil
½ tsp cumin
¼ tsp garam masala
salt and pepper to taste (I prefer rock salt and freshly grated pepper)
½ cup low fat greek yoghurt
zest from one lime
splash extra virgin olive oil

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit
  2. Slice cauliflower down the middle, or either side of the middle so that you have 1-inch steaks. (If any break in florets, then that is okay too, you can use them as well.)
  3. Mix the olive oil, cumin, garam masala and salt and pepper
  4. Rub the oil mixture all over the cauliflowers
  5. Place the cauliflower on a baking sheet and bake in the oven for 15 minutes then carefully flip over abd bake for another 5 minutes. The cauliflower should be a little crisp around the edges, and slightly brown.
  6. While the cauliflower is being roasted, in a small bowl, combine yogurt with lime zest, season with salt and pepper and squeeze of lime (as much as you like), according to taste. And if you are Gujarati, you will also add just a teensy-weensy bit of sugar into your raita! :)
  7. Serve the Cauliflower with the yogurt. It is best eaten hot. (But not that hot that you burn yourself!)

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