Cauliflower Rice

Cook it in the microwave, oven or stove. Use the method that best works for you!

Cauliflower Rice

Cauliflower masquerading as rice. Is it as good as rice? No. And anyone who tells you otherwise is either lying, or doesn’t know what tasty food is.😂 But is it a very good healthy substitute for rice that can be made to be delicious in its own right? YES IT IS! So what does it taste like? It tastes MILDLY like cauliflower. It’s not as cauliflowery as plain steamed florets because the cauliflower flavour is tempered when grated into little rice size pieces – which is what you want. And because cauliflower has a neutral flavour, it’s easily disguised when doused with a tasty sauce – like this Honey Garlic Chicken with Cucumber Salad on the side. When you get stuck into it, you may well forget it’s not rice!

How to make Cauliflower Rice

The best and fastest way is to push cauliflower florets through the feeding tube into a food processor fitted with the grating disc. This blitzes up the cauliflower into rice shaped bits and will make your cauliflower rice eating experience as similar as possible to rice.

Don’t have a grating disc attachment?

The grating disc works better than the default “S” curve blade that food processors come with to evenly grate all the cauliflower into rice shaped pieces. While you can just use the default “S” curve blade, you’ll find that some ends up more like couscous while some is rice size. Or some are lentil size and some are rice size. You get the gist. 🙂 “S” blade works pretty well, but the grating disc works better.

No food processor?

No worries! Just use your everyday standard grater. This actually works better than using the “S” blade of a food processor to make rice-size pieces, but it’s messier. You will get little bits of cauliflower everywhere – on the counter, and probably on the floor!

Today I’m going to show you how to cook plain cauliflower rice, intended to be served like white rice with saucy things like stir fries and curries. In the coming weeks, I’ll also share some recipes made by cooking cauliflower rice which are knock-your-socks-off delicious!

How to cook Cauliflower Rice

Choose the method that fits in best with your way of cooking:

How to serve Cauliflower Rice

Serve with anything that you usually serve with rice, and use it in place of rice in things like rice salads! Here are some suggestions.

1. Stir Fries

Perfect to soak up tasty Stir Fry sauces!

2. Curries

Ideal for dousing with rich, flavour loaded Curry sauces….

3. Anything saucy

Anything saucey that you like served with rice!

4. Rice and Couscous Salads

Use in place of Couscous or Rice in salads, such as these:

How to cook with cauliflower rice

Cooking with cauliflower rice is not always a straight substitution as rice needs 1.5 to 2 cups of liquid for every cup of dried rice, whereas cauliflower rice doesn’t require liquid to cook it. It also cooks in about 1/3 of the time as white rice. However, you can use the sauce and non liquid flavourings in my rice side dish recipes as a guide to dress up your cauliflower rice. And it’s particularly good for fried rice. You can use any of my fried rice recipes and do a direct swap substituting cooked rice with raw cauliflower rice.

Fried Rice Recipes

Or you could just use my Cauliflower Fried Rice recipe!

Even if you’re a cynic (and I was for a very long time), I really hope you give this a go at least once. Think of all the calories you’re saving – and what you can use all those calorie credits for! 😂 – Nagi x