Cauliflower fried rice … with yeast
I always seem to come home from work desperately hungry…too hungry to do more than throw whatever I first spot into a pan. The first thing I saw tonight was the cauliflower I cut up yesterday, and the brown rice I accidentally left out when going to bed last night (and didn’t notice this morning either). So I made what I dub cauliflower fried rice. I turned up the heat under my cast iron pan up, threw in maybe 2 cups of cauliflower florets and a tsp. of oil until it the florets started to brown, then added a few Tbs. of water and covered to steam. When the cauliflower started to get soft I pushed it to the side and cracked an egg into the pan, and scrambled it up. I then added 1/2 cup of short grain brown rice and let it all fry up a bit while I cut up some scallions. I would have added more veggies if I had had them. I topped the dish with a heaping tablespoon of nutritional yeast, a drizzle of soy sauce, the scallions, and another tsp. of olive oil. It made a huge and very filling dinner. Not gourmet, but pretty tasty. Then again, I was very hungry. Maybe anything would have tasted good.
The captious vegetarian 
pennylane said,
June 7, 2007 at 11:26 am
Does cauliflower ever taste bitter to you? ‘Cause I used to love it, but now sometimes I find it tastes really, really bitter. I guess I could be what they call a “super-taster” but I know I’ve eaten cauliflower at restaurants where it didn’t taste bitter. Wonder if it’s ’cause they boil it… I never boil vegetables for fear of losing out on valuable nutrients, but maybe that would get rid of the bitterness.
captious said,
June 12, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Nope, cauliflower never tastes bitter to me. Dandelion on the other
hand…. There’s lots of info on the web about how to reduce the
bitterness of dandelion. I wonder if some of those suggestions would
work for you for cauliflower?
Emma said,
April 29, 2008 at 12:38 am
Yes! We had a very bitter cauli experience. I’ve been googling and it seems to be down to overcooking.