Cauliflower in batter and other dishes from this healthy vegetable

Cauliflower has a soft and very delicate taste. This circumstance makes this vegetable a very popular product in the diet of those who monitor their health and seek to preserve the natural beauty. The fact is that cauliflower is not only delicious, but also extremely useful.

First, there are more vitamin C in cauliflower than in the usual white cabbage. Secondly, it contains many useful micronutrients, including iron. And thirdly, cauliflower is low-calorie, and at the same time it is easily assimilated by our body.

In addition, many different dishes can be cooked from this vegetable. And there are very simple recipes for the preparation of cauliflower. For example, even boiled cauliflower, poured with butter, is a completely finished and tender dish.

It is easy to prepare and such a delicious dish as a cauliflower in batter. We need a medium-sized cauliflower fork. Choosing this vegetable in the store, you should pay attention to its appearance. If the cabbage is fresh, then its inflorescences have a white color and sufficient elasticity. And the outer leaves are bright and dense. It is better to choose a fork, the inflorescences of which are tightly pressed against each other. If on the surface of cabbage dark or yellow spots are noticeable, and its leaves are swollen, these are signs of "lying down" of the vegetable. Such cabbage is better not to take, not to be disappointed in the taste of the prepared dish.

But back to our recipe. To prepare the dish "Cauliflower in batter", we will additionally need vegetable oil, two eggs, a little flour and seasoning.

We clear the cabbage from the outer leaves and disassemble it on the inflorescence. Then we lower them into salted boiling water and cook after boiling for seven minutes. To preserve the color of cabbage, it is worth adding to the water a teaspoon of table vinegar and the same amount of sugar. Cooked cabbage is thrown in a colander and covered with cold water. We give it a little cool, and we are engaged in cooking batter.

We beat eggs with salt and seasonings. Then pour a little flour to them to make a batter. To make the tenderer more gentle, you can add a tablespoon of sour cream to it. Now we put a frying pan with high bumps on the fire, pour half the volume of vegetable oil into it.

Each inflorescence of cabbage is dipped in batter and put in hot oil. Fry the cabbage on both sides until it is covered with a ruddy crust. We put the finished pieces on napkins to remove the excess oil, and then serve it to the table.

Cauliflower in batter may be served hot. In this case, you can offer fresh sour cream or tomato sauce. Lovers can sprinkle roasted inflorescences with grated cheese. In addition, cauliflower in batter is tasty and cold, so you can offer it as a snack or take it with you to a picnic.

Of cauliflower, you can cook and many other snacks. For example, it can be used as a component of vegetable salads, pre-boiled. This type of cabbage is perfect for making soups. For example, from it you can cook a very tasty soup-puree or just add inflorescences to any vegetable soup.

And for the second you can cook very tasty cutlets from cauliflower. For this, boiled cauliflower should be crushed, then add to it an egg, a little flour and seasoning. From the received mass we form small cutlets and fry them in oil. Simple and tasty!

It's just as simple to make a casserole, the main component of which will be cauliflower. Prepare this dish will be able to even a novice cook. Boiled cauliflower is crushed in a blender, then two yolks, salt, seasonings and three or four tablespoons of semolina are added to it. At the end, add the whipped whipped proteins and mix the mass very gently. Spread the cabbage in a greased form and send it to a heated to a hundred and eighty degrees oven. We serve cooked casserole with sour cream.

Cauliflower is perfectly combined with other vegetables and mushrooms, so it can be used as a part of "complex" dishes, for example, stew or casseroles.

A very delicious casserole is made from cauliflower and mushrooms with the addition of cheese. Boil the inflorescence as usual. And mushrooms cut into slices and fry in butter until they blush. Now take the form for baking, grease it with oil, sprinkle the walls and the bottom with breadcrumbs and lay out the cauliflower mixed with the fried mushrooms. Top with a very thickly sprinkled with grated cheese and bake the dish in the oven until a ruddy crust.

Served cauliflower with mushrooms, divided into portions. To her very well suited sour cream sauce with garlic.