Spicy Cauliflower with Sesame

This spicy cauliflower is thing special. Imagine a skillet of caramelized onions cooked down pinch fragrant cumin, ginger, garlic, sesame seeds and chiles. Add cauliflower and navigator until tender. Vibrant, spicy, saccharine earthiness cooked successful a azygous skillet, served connected 1 plate.

Spicy Cauliflower pinch Sesame: The Inspiration

The inspiration for nan look comes from Reza Mahammad’s lovely cookbook, Rice, Spice and each Things Nice. I bought a transcript and slipped it into my suitcase nan past clip I was in Portland. I’m finally(!) getting astir to cooking from it. This book is afloat of awesome ideas and beautiful photos, portion of nan logic it jumped retired astatine me. I’ve recovered that pinch a tweak aliases two, I tin move a bully number of nan recipes into one-pan weeknight meals. For example, pinch this cauliflower, you mightiness flip successful a mates handfuls of grilled aliases pan-seared paneer food aliases tempeh, aliases apical pinch a fried egg.

Variations

I emotion this look utilizing cauliflower arsenic nan base, but if you emotion nan herb floor plan and caramelized onions, nan entity is nan limit arsenic acold arsenic ways you tin tweak and riff connected nan recipe. Imagine a murphy version. Or a broccoli version. Or skipping nan veg and flip pinch cooked noodles aliases pasta. A mates different ideas from nan comments:

• Sam turned this into a soup. She says, “I had immoderate rootlike banal connected hand. I simmered nan leftovers pinch nan stock, pureed, added immoderate chopped cilantro to nan apical and ate it pinch immoderate ail naan from Trader Joe’s. Absolutely delicious! It mightiness person been moreover amended pinch immoderate coconut beverage successful spot of immoderate of nan banal aliases topped pinch raita.”
• Another crockery take. Sam’s type is akin successful tone to a type I ended up making, make nan cauliflower into a pureed soup, and drizzle pinch an lipid infused pinch nan cumin, turmeric, garlic, and chiles. Finish topped pinch toasted sesame seeds and immoderate benignant of flatbread croutons. Similar constituent and flavors, remixed!
• Meg did what sounds for illustration an astonishing version, “This is delicious! I utilized nitter kebbeh, an Ethiopian clarified butter, and I substituted caller reddish chilies from nan plot for dried. The food was infused pinch galore of nan spices already utilized successful this recipe, on pinch cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, and nutmeg. It was truthful amazing, I was sad aft we ate it all.”

Give this a try, moreover if you don’t deliberation you’re overmuch of a cauliflower fan. It’s that good. 

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