Recipe: Hummus Roasted Whole Cauliflower
This delicious cauliflower dish is such a winner, so much flavour!
It can serve as a fabulous side or as the crown of a main meal with tasty sides like Lebanese Mujadara, grilled asparagus with skordalia or even a ribboned raw zucchini salad with pomegranate! While this dish spends a lot of time in the oven, the effort is low, this dish is beginner easy.
Serves 4 as part of a main meal or 6 as a side
TIPS
Get your hands dirty - to increase flavour, ensure your seasoning is rubbed well in to your cauliflower before baking
A spoon really helps to get plenty of crumb crust on your hummus coating
Allow plenty of time to prepare the dish- the cauliflower spends a total of 85 minutes in the oven, while it’s extremely low effort, you need to allow time
Ingredients
whole cauliflower
3 tablespoons of olive oil
300g of hummus (your favourite store-bought or homemade whichever you have on hand)
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 teaspoon garlic powder
Salt and pepper to taste
2/3 cup of LSA (linseed, sunflower seed & almond meal)
Method
Preheat the oven to 200°C
Cut leaves from cauliflower and place whole in a lined baking dish
Sprinkle the cauliflower with your cumin and salt of pepper and drizzle with olive oil and rub in evenly
Roast in the oven for 45 minutes
Mix LSA, smoked paprika, garlic powder and salt and pepper to taste in a small bowl and put aside
Bring cauliflower out of the oven, allow it to cool for a few minutes then using a spoon cover the cauliflower with a thick even layer of hummus
Follow by pressing your LSA/spice mix in to the the thick hummus layer creating an even crust
Drizzle with olive oil and return cauliflower to the oven
Bake for a further 30-40 minutes or until tender and the shell is golden-brown, you can test this by skewering through the top.
Remove from oven and serve hot
Serve with Lebanese Mujadara and greens with skordalia or an acidic zucchini ribbon salad to balance it out.
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