Cauliflower bhaji – wheat and dairy free! and photos…

Cauliflower bhaji – wheat and dairy free! and photos…

NO WAY did I delete 900 photos from my phone by accident! OMGosh! 🙁 All those lovely recipes I’ve been creating, photos of ingredients, photos of the processes and photos of the finished foods! Some of them were saved photos – you know the ones you want to keep reminders of close to you… family moments, great friends, yummy food! 😛 🙂 But a LOT of them were new photos yet to be uploaded! 🙁 So the last couple of days have been spent trying everything to retrieve them, which means not taking photos on my phone as that will override the data. Do you know how difficult that is! We have become so dependent on our phones that we forget that we used to think about taking photos. We used to buy film, put in a camera, carefully take photos, wait until the film was finished, take it to a shop, then wait patiently for several days until they were ready to be collected. WOW… if I had to develop all the photos I take! But at least they wouldn’t have been so easy to delete!!! I’m hoping (God willing) that the latest programme we’ve installed will recover most, if not all of them!

So, because of all the drama (and screaming) in my house, nothing new has been cooked up, but here is something I’ve come to love! I never really gave much thought to the ‘cauliflower’ before – having eaten it to death many many years ago… soggy and tasteless and masked by watery cheese sauces as a meagre vegetarian offering in restaurants! However, with these new ways of cooking cauliflower, it is becoming a firm favourite (overtaking broccoli) in our house! 😛 🙂 As it’s the school holidays, my young niece is staying with us and after eating her pizza, she wanted to try my food! So cauliflower bhaji into her mouth it went and her eyes went wide and before reaching for another she said? “You are the best cooker in the whole wide world” 😀 That makes it all worth it, lost photos and all! A well received recipe needs to be shared!

Gather

  • 1 cauliflower (florets only)
  • 100g gram flour (chickpea/besan/chana)
  • 150ml cold water
  • 1 tablespoon of mixed curry seeds (mustard, fennel, kalonji, cumin, fenugreek)
  • A small pinch of curry powder
  • Salt to taste (I use pink Himalayan)
  • coconut oil for cooking

Prepare

  1. Wash the cauliflower and cut into bitesize florets. Leave to drain.
  2. Put the flour in a blender with the water, curry seeds, curry powder and salt. Mix until no lumps are remaining.
  3. Heat the oil in a shallow pan until hot.
  4. Dip a piece of cauliflower in the batter until it is completely covered, then carefully place in the pan. Splash with oil then when sealed, transfer to a baking tray.
  5. Repeat until all of the cauliflower is finished. Any remaining batter and cauliflower crumbs can be made into a pancake – delicious!
  6. Bake at Gas Mark 5 for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
  7. Enjoy!

Serve & Store

  • Serve with a dip such as sweet chili or minted yogurt
  • Have as an accompaniment to a curry and rice.
  • Great as a tasty starter served with shreds of cucumber.
  • Gobbled up like hotcakes would be an understatement! We were blowing on these to cool them down! Yummy on their own and none left to store! However, if you keep them refrigerated for a few days you can reheat them for 5-10 minutes in the oven.

Cauliflower Bhaji - wheat & dairy free

  • Servings: 2-3
  • Difficulty: medium
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Gather

  • 1 cauliflower (florets only)
  • 100g gram flour (chickpea/besan/chana)
  • 150ml cold water
  • 1 tablespoon of mixed curry seeds (mustard, fennel, kalonji, cumin, fenugreek)
  • A small pinch of curry powder
  • Salt to taste (I use pink Himalayan)
  • coconut oil for cooking

Prepare

  1. Wash the cauliflower and cut into bitesize florets. Leave to drain.
  2. Put the flour in a blender with the water, curry seeds, curry powder and salt. Mix until no lumps are remaining.
  3. Heat the oil in a shallow pan until hot.
  4. Dip a piece of cauliflower in the batter until it is completely covered, then carefully place in the pan. Splash with oil then when sealed, transfer to a baking tray.
  5. Repeat until all of the cauliflower is finished. Any remaining batter and cauliflower crumbs can be made into a pancake – delicious!
  6. Bake at Gas Mark 5 for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
  7. Enjoy!

Serve & Store

  • Serve with a dip such as sweet chili or minted yogurt.
  • Have as an accompaniment to curry and rice.
  • Great as a tasty starter served with shreds of cucumber.
  • Gobbled up like hotcakes would be an understatement! We were blowing on these to cool them down! Yummy on their own and none left to store! However, if you keep them refrigerated for a few days you can reheat them for 5-10 minutes in the oven.

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  • brugesvegan 6th August 2015 at 08:22

    Wow. Too bad about the photos. Hope you can get them back!

    Reply
    • Life Diet Health 6th August 2015 at 10:09

      It’s not looking good 🙁 They are finally on the screen but when you try to open them they are just coloured blocks! I’ll keep hoping!

      Reply
  • Ashley 7th August 2015 at 22:01

    Sorry about your photos! 🙁 Thanks for sharing this recipe though!

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    Reply
    • Life Diet Health 7th August 2015 at 22:35

      Hello and thank you Ashley… I guess I’ll just have to cook everything again! 😛 🙂

      Reply
  • Delicious Peace of Mind 12th August 2015 at 10:48

    Sorry to read about your photo mishap. But these cauliflower bites look so promising. I laughed at your description of previous cauliflower experiences… So true 😀

    Reply
    • Life Diet Health 15th August 2015 at 09:41

      Thanks Milica 🙂 Maybe the photo mishap was someone telling me I should start to use the real camera for photos instead of my phone! Maybe I need to think more about my pictures and spend time on them instead of hurriedly taking them so I can gobble everything up! 😛 🙂 Lol indeed at past cauliflower experiences! 😀

      Reply
  • Delicious Peace of Mind 15th August 2015 at 11:06

    Your delicious recipes sure deserve even better photos to represent them 🙂

    Reply
    • Life Diet Health 15th August 2015 at 13:45

      Thank you… I’ll try and have a play with the camera next time I’m in the kitchen! 🙂 x

      Reply

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