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Side Dishes

Bang Bang Cauliflower

If you want some banging chilli flavours, try these crisp coated cauliflower florets with a creamy spicy sauce for an irresistible starter, side dish or light meal.

Serves 2

Difficulty
Easy
Preparation Time
Less than 30 minutes
Cooking Time
10 to 30 minutes
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Ingredients for  2  Servings

  • 70g
    Panko Breadcrumbs
  • ½ tsp
    Salt flakes
  • ½ tsp
    Freshly ground black pepper
  • ¼ tsp
    Paprika
  • ¼ tsp
    Garlic powder
  • 1
    Large cauliflower, cut into bite-sized florets, young leaves reserved
  • 100ml
    Oat milk

  • For the Bang Bang Sauce

  • 125ml
    Sriracha mayonnaise
  • 1 tbsp
    Sweet chilli sauce
  • 1 tsp
    Maple syrup

  • To Garnish

  • 1
    Small red chilli, finely sliced (optional)
  • 2
    Spring onions, finely sliced

Approximate Times

  • Preparation :
    Less than 30 minutes
  • Cooking :
    10 to 30 minutes

Method

  1. To make the bang bang sauce, mix all the ingredients together and season with salt to taste.
  2. To serve, drizzle the bang bang sauce over the cauliflower and scatter over the red chilli and spring onions.

Notes

Don’t waste the young cauliflower leaves: use them to make a crispy salty snack. Discard the tough ends, then put the leaves on a baking tray and mix with 1 tablespoon of sesame oil and ½ teaspoon of sea salt flakes. Roast on the bottom shelf of the oven for the last 10 minutes of baking the florets, then drizzle over the bang bang sauce.

Instead of oven baking, you can cook the cauliflower florets in a deep fat fryer. This will create a beautiful golden crust.

Panko breadcrumbs are traditionally used in Japanese cuisine to create a crispy crumb coating to chicken, fish and vegetables. Made from white bread without the crusts. If you don't have panko bread crumbs, you can make your own or you can use plain flour.

Oat milk is a plant milk derived from whole oat grains by extracting the plant material with water. Oat milk has a creamy texture and oatmeal-like flavour.

Sriracha is a type of hot sauce or chilli sauce made from a paste of chilli peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt. In Thailand, sriracha is frequently used as a dipping sauce. You can make your own sriracha by mixing mayo and sriracha together. You can choose if your mayo is classic or vegan.