We often have mashed potato, the kids love it and it’s a great side to any meat and 3 vegetable style dinner. However lately I have been trying to come up with alternatives. I made some cauliflower puree recently, just for something different, it’s certainly going to remain one of my go-to side dish ideas as the kids really enjoyed it!
PrintCauliflower puree
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 25 mins
- Yield: 5
- Category: Side dish
Ingredients
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- 1 small head cauliflower, trimmed and cut into florets
- 30g butter, softened
- 1/3 cup parmesan cheese, finely grated
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- salt and pepper to season
Instructions
- Boil water in a large saucepan on high heat.
- Add cauliflower, cook for 15 to 20 minutes or until tender.
- Drain and return to saucepan.
- Add butter and garlic and mash in saucepan until just smooth (may still be grainy).
- Stir through cheese and season with salt and pepper.
- Serve.
Here are some other cauliflower puree recipes you may like:
Cauliflower Puree with Thyme, recipe from Once upon a Chef, using chicken stock, salt, butter and thyme.
From Martha Stewart, using chicken stock, sour cream and butter.
10 comments
The cauli puree is a great substitute for mashed potatoes (pity my children don’t love it as much as I do). Another thing to do is to make “cauliflower rice”. Boil the cauliflower in salted water – but only until it is just tender. Then drain well and process in a food processor until it resembles grains of rice. This is a healthy alternative to serve with stir fries and other indian / asian meals.
Julie what a fantastic tip! Thank you for sharing, Cauliflower rice sounds amazing!! I can’t wait to try it now x
as an alternative to plain mash I often do part potato part turnip, just gives it a slightly different favour & my daughter doesn’t even notice!
Looks really healthy and that`s important for me. Do you think that if I replace potatoes with pumpkin is will work also?
Have a nice day girls!
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I love mashed sweet potato! It’s my favourite, however pureed cauliflower is a close second. Yummy stuff!!
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I have to agree with you Nicole, sweet mashed potato is one of my favourites too. But so nice to have another healthy alternative.:)
We love carbs but they don’t love us so we’re trying to eat less! Sweet potato mash is a good Low GI alternative and we’ve mashed pumpkin too but this looks delicious! You had me at parmesan!
Hmmm i can’t go past mashed sweet potato too! One of my favourites.:) The parmesan really does give it that beautiful flavour x
A few weeks ago I made a cauliflower mash using the Parmesan etc, the same as the recipe you used. I decided to freeze some in portion sizes to see how it held up. It was just as delicious after heating back up in the microwave. ?
this is fabulous to know, thank you so much for sharing.