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Roasted cauliflower

This is how Yotam Ottolenghi does roasted cauliflower: whole, served with a green parsley tahini sauce.

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Last modified on: April 19^th 2020

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For 4 people, you will need:

1 1 cauliflower
2 30 g butter
3 3 tablespoons olive oil
4 salt
5 pepper
6 150 g Green parsley tahini sauce
Total weight: 1,425 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Trim 1 cauliflower, only keeping the best of the leaves around the base and cutting these back to half their length.

Stage 2 - 1 min.

Put a small dessert ring in the bottom of a large pan of salted boiling water.

Stage 3 - 10 min.

Sit the cauliflower on the ring, head downwards. It doesn't matter if the end is slighty above the water level.

Cook until barely tender.

Stage 4 - 10 min.

Take out of the pan and drain, still head downwards, in a colander.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C).

Put 30 g butter in a ramekin and melt (in the microwave, for example). Add 3 tablespoons olive oil and mix well.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Sit the cauliflower right way up on a sheet of cooking parchment laid on a baking sheet.

Use a brush to coat the cauliflower thoroughly all over with the butter-oil mixture, including the leaves. Put in the oven.

Stage 7 - 2 hours

Take out the baking sheet 2 or 3 times during cooking and brush the cauliflower again with the butter+oil.

Stage 8

Take the cauliflower out of the oven when it is nicely browned (this will take an hour and a half to 2 hours) and the surrounding leaves are charred and crispy, almost burnt.

Stage 9

To serve, place the cauliflower in the centre of the table for everyone to help themselves to well-roasted morsels...

Stage 10

...and dip them in the green sauce before eating.

You'll love this!

Remarks

You can serve this with lemon mayonnaise or rémoulade dressing instead of the green sauce.

Keeping

Should be eaten as soon as it comes out of the oven.

Source

Based on a recipe by Yotam Ottolenghi.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,125 Kcal or 4,710 Kj	42 gr	51 gr	112 gr
42 %	12 %	4 %	13 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
79 Kcal or 331 Kj	3 gr	4 gr	8 gr
3 %	1 %	<1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
281 Kcal or 1,176 Kj	11 gr	13 gr	28 gr
10 %	3 %	1 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2700 k-calories or 11300 k-joules by day for a man (change to a woman).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk, Sesame

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 3.74 €
Per person : 0.94 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Green parsley tahini sauce: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Roasted vegetables with thyme and green sauce, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Oatmeal cake, Smoky sausage and mash, Poppy seed and lemon cake, Pear and chocolate Paris puddings, Hollandaise sauce, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach brik parcels, Polenta parmentier, Marinated tuna and cabbage, Fish terrine with spinach and tomatoes, Confit of carrots with bacon, ... All
	Cauliflower: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Cauliflower and egg salad, Creamy Winter Vegetable Soup, Creamy cauliflower and avocado salad, Winter cauliflower tabbouleh, Gratin with Parmesan flavours, ... All

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