Cauliflower Steak with Rice

 

Hey guys,

Adding to my list of strange things I wanted to try out this Issue, I wanted to create a sort of steak and rice meal but I also wanted to make sauces for the first time here. So I thought about making a sweet potato ketchup, which is basically like an orangey ketchup, that I could create to go with a gorgeous roasted cauliflower and some salad.

Ingredients 

  • Cauliflower (Steak size)

  • Red Onion

  • Leek

  • White Sweet Onion

  • Pea Shoot Salad

  • Worcesture Sauce

  • Cranberry Sauce

  • White Rice

  • Sweet Potato or SquashBlack Pepper

  • Sesame Oil

  • Garlic

  • White Wine Vinegar

  • Paprika

  • Pink Peppercorns (I did not want to add this flavour but I wanted it to look pretty so skip lol)

I think this recipe is going to sound repetitive if I go through how to cook a cauliflower, I showed you in a few previously so I’m going to concentrate on the ‘ketchup’.

So what I wanted was a vinegary, sweet, tart sauce to go with a steak, that didn’t have loads of sugar in and I thought either a butternut squash or sweet potato would add that sugar without it being overpowering. So I used a mixture of the two, chopped up and boiled for about 20 minutes. When they were soft enough to mash, I added olive oil based butter and continued to cook them out to give a little of that flavour. I added ground pepper, salt, garlic, and then contiued to mash. I then wanted to add paprika for some spice, I went through and tried out different flavours and onion powder worked for me. I then added white wine vinegar and continued to cook until the vinegar had all but dissapeared. When I was happy with the result, I passed the mixture through a seive and served on the base of the plate.

So after testing it out I thought that there was something missing, the salad was pretty much what it was, it was onions, leaks and the rice was what that was, it was white rice. So the cauliflower had a char to it, it was soft and really tasty, but it needed something smokey and so I mixed up some worcesture sauce, liquid smoke and cranberry sauce in a pan. I cooked it off and added it as a glaze to the cauliflower and cooked it in the oven at 200c for about seven minutes, and the whole thing came together.

So here we go! A simple ‘steak’ and rice with a cool sauce to try!

Let me know if you’d check this one out.

 
Joseph Harwood