Tasty and quick cooking cauliflower in a pan

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

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• Cooking time:

  40 minutes

Ingredients

• cauliflower
• eggs
• garlic
• vegetable oil
• spices

Unlike white cabbage, cauliflower contains twice as many vitamins, so it is suitable for children and diet menus. Some housewives neglect such a vegetable, but they just do not know how to quickly and tasty cook cauliflower in a pan.

Cauliflower with egg

Cauliflower with egg is the easiest way to quickly and deliciously cook a vegetable in a pan. This dish can be served with any sauce or as a side dish for meat or cutlets.

Ingredients:

• 300 g of cauliflower;
• 2 eggs;
• salt and spices to taste;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

• We wash the cauliflower forks, disassemble into inflorescences, put in a saucepan, fill with water and after boiling, cook for 5-7 minutes. After the inflorescence, transfer to a sieve and dry.
• If there is a double boiler, then it is better to steam the vegetable, so it will retain more nutrients.
• Drive eggs into a bowl, add pressed garlic cloves, salt and any spices, such as Provencal herbs. Shake until smooth.
• Now pour the inflorescences with the egg mixture and mix.
• Then we spread the cabbage in a preheated pan with oil and fry until golden brown.

• First, put the finished vegetable on a napkin to remove excess fat, and then immediately serve it to the table.
• To prepare a tasty and healthy dish, choose medium-sized cauliflower forks with green leaves, white and clear inflorescences. The head of cabbage should be firm, but not heavy.

Cauliflower in cheese batter

The most popular way to quickly and deliciously cook cauliflower is to fry it in a skillet in batter. Any batter can be prepared for the dish, but many housewives note that it turns out very tasty in cheese breading.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of cauliflower;
• 1, 5 Art. l. flour;
• 4 chicken eggs;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• parsley to taste;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• granulated garlic;
• paprika;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

Disassemble the prepared cauliflower forks into inflorescences and boil in salted water for 5-7 minutes. We throw it back in a colander so that excess liquid leaves the vegetable

• At this time, grate the cheese. Pour eggs into a bowl, add a little salt, shake.
• After that, we send cheese, finely chopped parsley to the egg mixture, as well as paprika, pepper and granulated garlic to taste.
• Sprinkle the inflorescences with flour and transfer to the batter, mix.

• Fry cabbage in batter in a pan with hot oil until golden brown.
• Boiled cabbage must be dried well, otherwise the batter will not stick to the inflorescences and will simply fall off during the frying process.

Fried cauliflower with breadcrumbs

You can quickly and deliciously cook cauliflower in a frying pan both in batter and with ordinary breadcrumbs. The vegetable turns out to be not only tasty, but also crispy.

Ingredients:

• cauliflower;
• breadcrumbs;
• Bay leaf;
• celery stalk;
• allspice;
• vegetable oil.

Preparation:

• Put the celery stalk in a pot of water, put it on fire.
• As soon as the contents of the pan boil, lay the prepared cauliflower inflorescences.
• Cook for 5-7 minutes, add bay leaf and a few peas of allspice to the vegetable a couple of minutes until tender.

We put the boiled cabbage on a sieve and give it time to cool down a little

• Lightly dry the crackers in a dry frying pan and pour into a separate bowl.
• Now we cut off all unnecessary from the inflorescences, leaving only the flowers.

Put in a frying pan with hot oil, fry until golden brown, then sprinkle with breadcrumbs, mix, fry for a couple of minutes, and you can serve the dish to the table

Before cooking the cabbage, it is better to soak the inflorescences in salted water for 20 minutes. This will remove caterpillars and worms from the vegetable that may be inside the inflorescences. All "uninvited guests" will simply float to the surface.

Cauliflower with vegetables in a pan

Cauliflower goes well with various vegetables, so you can quickly and tasty prepare a healthy dish right in the pan. Stewed cabbage with vegetables can be served both as a side dish and as an independent dish.

Ingredients:

• 700 g cauliflower;
• 7-8 tomatoes;
• 3 onions;
• 2-3 cloves of garlic;
• 1 bunch of parsley;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

• We dip the inflorescences of a colored vegetable into a saucepan with boiling salted water. Since the vegetable will still be stewing, we cook it for a short time, literally 2-3 minutes.
• Cut the tomatoes into cubes, chop the garlic finely and chop the onion into small cubes.

• Now we heat the oil in a frying pan and sauté the onion vegetable, then spread the cabbage and lightly fry.
• Then we send the tomatoes, mix and simmer under the lid for 7-8 minutes.

• Next, add spices, garlic and finely chopped parsley, mix and simmer until the cabbage is fully cooked.
• For cooking, you can also use frozen cabbage, which we immediately put out of the bag in the pan.

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Cauliflower cutlets

Cauliflower can be quickly and tasty fried cutlets in a pan. Having tried such a dish, you cannot even believe that they are made from an ordinary vegetable. And you can cook vegetable cutlets both in summer and in any other season, because cauliflower is sold in stores throughout the year.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of cabbage;
• 2 chicken eggs;
• 100 g flour;
• 3-4 sprigs of dill;
• breadcrumbs;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

Soak the head of cauliflower disassembled into umbrellas in salted water, and after 2-3 minutes boil and discard in a colander

As soon as the inflorescences have cooled down a little, we disassemble them with our hands or with a fork into grains the size of pearl barley

Now pour eggs into the chopped vegetable, add finely chopped dill, salt and pepper, if desired, you can add other spices

• Also, be sure to add flour, mix and leave the resulting vegetable mince on the table so that the flour becomes sticky.
• Now form the patties, bread in breadcrumbs and fry in a pan with hot oil until golden brown, about 3 minutes on each side.

If desired, you can add garlic to the cauliflower mince, and replace the dill with parsley

Cauliflower with mushrooms

You can simply and quickly fry cauliflower with mushrooms. The dish turns out to be tasty and aromatic. Ideal for those fasting or dieting.

Ingredients:

• cauliflower;
• 400 g of mushrooms;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• 1, 5 Art. l. sour cream;
• vegetable oil.

Preparation:

Cut the mushrooms into small pieces and fry in a pan until tender, transfer to a bowl

Now add oil to the pan and add cauliflower inflorescences, you do not need to boil them first. Stir and simmer under the lid for 10 minutes

• Then add sour cream and mushrooms to the cabbage, mix, fry for another couple of minutes.
• After we cover with a lid, and turn off the fire, leave the dish to brew for 10 minutes

• Then put it on a plate, sprinkle with chopped dill and serve.
• To make the mushrooms fragrant, fry them with the addition of a small amount of oil. If the pan is good, you don't need to use the oil at all, so the mushrooms will actually be fried rather than stewed, and will be able to retain their mushroom flavor.

Turkish minced cauliflower

Cauliflower is prepared in many countries. This vegetable is especially loved in Turkey and is fried directly in a pan with the addition of minced meat. The dish turns out to be tasty and satisfying, we recommend trying this recipe.

Ingredients:

• cauliflower;
• 1 onion;
• 300 g minced meat;
• 2 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
• salt and black pepper to taste;
• red pepper if desired.

Preparation:

• Chop the onion into small cubes and sauté until soft. You can use any oil for frying, but it turns out tastier on butter.
• Then add minced meat to the onion vegetable. Meat offal can be taken to taste, but if we speak from Turkish cuisine, then we do not use pork, since such meat is not cooked in this country.

• Mix the onion with the minced meat and fry it almost until tender.
• At this time, put the cauliflower inflorescences in a deep frying pan, pour in a little water, cover with a lid and put on fire.

Add tomato paste or some tomato sauce to the minced meat, add salt, black and, if desired, red pepper, to add a little spiciness, mix

• As soon as the cabbage becomes soft, transfer the meat sauce to it, mix and simmer under the lid for 40 minutes.
• When boiling cauliflower, in addition to salt, you can add a little citric acid, this will allow the cabbage to keep its white color.

Delicious cauliflower pancakes

Cauliflower pancakes can be fried. The dish turns out to be tender and tasty. Ideal for a healthy breakfast.

Ingredients:

• 250 g cauliflower;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 30 g flour;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 30 g of cheese;
• dill greens, spices.

Preparation:

• Fill the cauliflower inflorescences with water, add a little salt and cook after boiling for 5 minutes.
• Then we transfer the vegetable to a bowl of cold water and after 1 minute we drain the liquid.
• Now grind the inflorescences into small crumbs, add finely grated cheese, finely chopped dill and garlic, add spices, flour and drive in an egg.
• Mix all the ingredients well and use a spoon to spread the resulting dough in a pan with hot oil.
• Fry pancakes on both sides until golden brown, serve with sour cream or any other sauce.
• If desired, the pancakes can be fried with the addition of green peas, zucchini or potatoes.

Cauliflower can be quickly and tasty cooked not only in a pan, but also baked in the oven with a variety of ingredients. And in order to enjoy a healthy vegetable in winter, you need to know how to freeze it correctly. To do this, boil the inflorescences for 3 minutes in water with the addition of citric acid, so the vegetable does not darken. Then we dry it, put it in bags and freeze it.