Chicken Fried Cauliflower
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By adding crisped rice cereal to the coating, these become crunchy and savoury and you won't believe you didn't make these sooner.
Author: The Edgy Veg
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: American
Serves: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1 large or 2 small heads cauliflower, cut into large florets
- 2 eggs worth of egg replacer, unprepared (just the powder)
- 1 cup unsweetened soy milk
- 1 tbspapple cider vinegar
- 2 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1½ tsp garlic salt
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp white pepper
- 2 cup crispy puffed rice cereal, (you can also use crushed corn flakes)
- Oil for frying (optional)
To Serve: Vegan Wing sauce(s) of choice
Instructions
- Heat oven to 400F and roast cauliflower in the oven for 20-25 minutes, turning after 15 mins.
- Remove cauliflower from the oven and set aside to cool.
- in a medium-size bowl, whisk together egg replacer, soy milk, and vinegar and set aside for a min of 5mins.
- In another bowl, whisk together the flour, nutritional yeast, paprika, sea salt, garlic salt, onion powder, and white pepper. Set aside.
- Place a wire cooling rack over a baking sheet.
- Transfer a few pieces of cauliflower into the seasoned flour, coat them completely and shake off the excess. Place onto the wire rack, and repeat.
- Now, add the rice cereal to the seasoned flour, and crush half with your hands.
- Now, let's dredge, dip each flour-coated floret into the soy milk mixture, allowing excess to drip off. Then coat in the seasoned flour with rice cereal, patting the rice onto the floret to help it stick, and place back onto the wire rack, repeat.
- To cook, you can use a deep fryer, a deep pan, or an oven. Frying will yield the crispiest, most flavourful cauliflower. It is the preferred method.
- If using a deep fryer, heat frying oil (I like peanut or vegetable) to 325-350F.
- If using a deep pan: pour enough vegetable oil to measure 3 inches inside the pan. Cover with a lid and heat the oil over medium-high heat.
- In batches, fry a handful of cauliflower in the hot oil at a time. Do not crowd or else the temperature will drop too much.
- Fry until golden brown and crispy in about 4-5 minutes, flipping occasionally.
- If you are using a deep fryer: lower into the oil and fry until golden brown and crispy about 3-4 mins.
- Remove cauliflower from oil and place back onto the tray, so that excess oil can drip from the cauliflower. Repeat.
- If using an oven: Place the coated cauliflower on a lined baking sheet and spray them generously with a cooking oil spray like coconut oil, or Pam. Bake them at 425F for 30 minutes, flipping at 15 mins.
- If using an air fryer, spray the air fryer basket with oil or cooking spray, place in a single layer, and spray them generously with the cooking spray. Cook on 375 F for 10 minutes. Flipping halfway through.
- Serve fried cauliflower with a sauce of choice to dip or toss in sauce, and serve with pickles, biscuits, roasted veg or macaroni salad on the side.
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 1 serving Calories: 373 Fat: 3g Carbohydrates: 72g Sugar: 6.5g Sodium: 750.7mg Fiber: 9.6g Protein: 15.9g
Recipe by The Edgy Veg at https://www.theedgyveg.com/2020/06/23/chicken-fried-cauliflower-recipe/