Best Easy Cauliflower Fried Rice Recipe
Guilt free healthy fried rice recipe is something everyone needs. Cauliflower as a rice replacement is sweeping the nation and is great nutritionally as well as for a carb free diet or if you just want to cut some carbs.
Servings: 4 people
Cost: $10
Ingredients
- 1 head cauliflower
- 5 green onions/scallions, diced separate whites & greens
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1/2 white onion, minced
- 1/2 cup frozen mixed vegetable medley peas, carrots & corn
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 5 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil sub olive oil
- 1 tbsp sesame oil sub vegetable or olive oil if don't have
Optional
- 1 lb cooked shrimp or chicken
- 1/4 cup peanuts
- 1/4 cup cilantro, torn
- 2 tbsp garlic chilli paste or sriracha add near end of cooking
Instructions
- If adding shrimp or chicken start cooking these just before you begin starting the rest of this recipe on a separate pan or in the oven. See here for a saute chicken recipe and here for baked chicken recipe.
Making Cauliflower Rice
- Remove cauliflower core and cut cauliflower into florets the put into a blender or food processor and blend until it as the texture of rice.
- Place the cauliflower on a towel or cheesecloth and squeeze drain it to get moisture out and then let it rest to dry out more while prepping everything else.
Making The Fried Rice
- Add tbsp of vegetable or olive oil to large frying pan, wok or skillet and heat to med-high.Put eggs in a bowl and beat the eggs then add to the pan and cook the eggs.
- Put the eggs on a plate to the side and wipe the pan clean.
- Add sesame oil, onions, vegetable medley, garlic and scallion whites to pan cooking for 4 minutes.
- Add cauliflower rice & then soy sauce to frying pan cooking for 5 minutes. Stir frequently and cauliflower is ready when it is slightly crispy on the outside.
Finish
- Add eggs and shrimp or chicken just for a minute until reheated.
- Garnish with green parts of scallions, nuts & cilantro if desired.
