Welcome to Day 16 of the inaugural Holiday Salad Marathon, where I’m sharing 30 salads in a row through to Christmas Eve. Something different to the usual sugar-loaded baking countdowns!! Today, we’re cauliflowering:
Roasted Cauliflower Salad
I first shared this Cauliflower Salad way back when I started this website in 2014. It’s a recipe by Yotam Ottolenghi, from his wildly popular cookbook Jerusalem which I recently admitted I was embarrassed to rate as my #1 cookbook because it’s soooooo obvious. I really hoped to share something more groundbreaking as my most-used cookbook, but alas no. 😂 But, it is worthy in its place as #1, and this cauliflower salad recipe is a good example why. Unique combination but simple, and very, very delicious. Cauliflower is a sensational vegetable to roast, transforming from bland and dry to sweet and juicy. When hot, it’s also a sponge for flavour which makes it a terrific ingredient for salads as it absorbs the flavour of dressings.
Ottolenghi’s Cauliflower Salad ingredients
Here’s what you need to make this salad: A couple of useful “Good To Know” tutorials might help out here:
How I cut cauliflower florets quickly & efficiently with minimal mess!How to remove pomegranate seeds – contained in this Pomegranate Salad recipe (there’s fun factor involved!)
And though I do provide directions for how to roast the cauliflower, if you’d like to see a (short!) tutorial video it’s contained in a separate Roasted Cauliflower recipe (along with an extra flavouring option – Parmesan Crunch!!) While this has Middle Eastern roots, the spicing in this is quite subtle so don’t just restrict yourself to serving this alongside Arabic and Persian foods. It would be just as at home at a backyard BBQ as it would a blow out Arabian Nights Feast. Light enough to be a side dish alongside grand roasts, yet substantial and certainly interesting enough to have as a meal in itself. Try it. It will surprise you! – Nagi x Originally published June 2014. Updated with much needed new photos and tidied up the recipe writing in December 2020! These salads are in addition to my regular 3 new recipes a week. Because aren’t you bored of the usual tomato-cucumber-lettuce garden salad routine?? Click here to see all the Holiday Salad Marathon recipes to date, or sign up for instant updates and you’ll receive a free email alert whenever I publish a new salad! 🙂
More cauliflower recipes
How to cut cauliflower florets – quickly with less mess!Cauliflower CheeseRoasted CauliflowerRoasted Parmesan Crusted CauliflowerGarlic Butter Cauliflower Pasta with PangrattatoRoasted Cauliflower with Almond Sauce (Ester Restaurant)Creamy, Dreamy Cauliflower SoupChipotle Lime Roasted Cauliflower
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