When creating dishes for £1, I’ve to be super-aware of simply how a lot I’m getting for my cash, and whether or not an ingredient is important dish-worthy or if it’ll solely ever be a aspect dish. Cauliflower at all times comes out on prime, and is more and more changing into one in every of my go-to components. I like the way in which it could possibly caramelise to present you these meaty notes, and is one motive the standard cauliflower has the ability to push meat from my menu.
Cauliflower tacos (pictured prime)
Prep 10 min
Prepare dinner 20 min
Serves 1
¼ cauliflower, reduce into florets
Olive oil
1 tsp floor cumin
1 tsp smoked paprika
Salt and pepper
½ crimson onion, thinly sliced
Splash of red-wine vinegar
40g plain flour
1 small handful chopped coriander, to serve
Feta, crumbled, to serve
Coat the cauliflower within the olive oil, cumin and paprika, season, then roast in a 180C (160C fan)/350F/fuel 4 oven for about 20 minutes, till properly colored.
In the meantime, put the onion in a bowl with a splash of red-wine vinegar and let it sit for no less than 10 minutes.
To make the tacos, put the flour and 25ml water in a bowl with a pinch of salt, and blend to make a dough. Knead on a piece floor till the dough is clean, then separate into three and roll into balls. Roll out every ball right into a roughly 10cm circle, then toast in a dry frying pan on a medium warmth for a few minutes on both sides.
Stir the coriander into the crimson onion pickle, then assemble your tacos: put a tablespoon of the onion salad on every tortilla, prime with some cauliflower and slightly crumbled feta, and serve.
Cauliflower pasta
Cauliflower is nice when it’s comfortable and creamy, but additionally when it’s charred and the flavour is intensified by caramelisation. So right here we’re doing each.
Prep 5 min
Prepare dinner 20 min
Serves 1
½ cauliflower
About 150ml milk
Salt and pepper
About 50g grated parmesan
Olive oil
125g tagliatelle
Chop the cauliflower into chunks, and preserve some nice-looking florets to at least one aspect for the topping. Boil the chunks of cauliflower, together with the stalk, in salted water for about 10 minutes, till comfortable, then mix in a meals processor with the milk, a beneficiant seasoning of salt and pepper, and the parmesan.
In the meantime, season the reserved florets and fry on a excessive warmth in a glug of oil for about seven minutes, till golden brown throughout.
Prepare dinner the pasta in salted boiling water in response to the packet directions, then drain. Combine the pasta with the cauliflower sauce, including a splash of the cooking water to loosen, if want be, prime with the fried florets and serve garnished with a beneficiant glug of olive oil and a few salt and pepper.
