Cauliflower

[Rosie29]

I have had delivered a rather large cauliflower and although it's ok it's not at peak freshness.
I can only cope with a small amount of cauliflower at a time.
I wondered - should I blanch it or roast it and freeze it ?
I can make soup with some of it for now. Any suggestions please ?

[MargoTester]

Cauliflower and Stilton soup is lovely or you could make cauliflower cheese and freeze it, it should be cooked from frozen

[MallyJ]

make a batch of soup and freeze the soup you don't immediately need for later consumption or put some of it in a stir fry with other veg or roast it and use it to dip into sauces or share it with a neighbour ... but freeze it for future use in any way you want to!

[Rosie29]

Those are good ideas - thank you

[TonyV]

Rosie cannot post link but if you open BBC food, lots of suggestions there.

[Rosie29]

Yes Tony V - good thinking .

[retrocop]

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search/recipes?query=Cauliflower&=Search

[Barmaid]

We can never eat a whole one. I blanch it and then put it on a tray and open freeze it. Once it is hard I stick it in a bag. At least if you open freeze it you can take out as much as you need and it's not one big clump!

[TonyV]

Rosie my personal favourite would be cauliflower cheese and garlic bread.

[Rosie29]

They all sound good - many thanks all x

[Vagus]

We’ve had two cannon ball size cauliflowers delivered recently.
First one, I used the whole of it to make cauliflower cheese. It did us for two days and was delicious.
The second one, I added half of it to a roasted root veg curry towards the end of cooking, as per the recipe, it also was delicious.
I have the other half in a plastic bag in the fridge, it will be chopped up and added to a chicken korma tomorrow night...I always add cauliflower to curry.

[Rosie29]

Cheers Vagus - all sounds deelish.

[Vagus]

Whatever you do with it Rosie, I hope you enjoy it. In these trying times we’re making every effort not to waste anything, especially fresh veg and fruit...or gigantic cauliflowers!

[MartinMillar]

Roasted cauliflower soup is delicious especially if you sprinkle fried lardons on when serving

[Mozz71]

Personally, I'd him it. I loathe cauliflower.

Now broccoli, yum!

[Mozz71]

*bin it

[Spicerack]

Don't think I've tried roast cauli. I'll have to give it a whirl.

[tonyav]

I've had this, very very nice.
https://simply-delicious-food.com/crispy-beer-battered-cauliflower/

[shoota]

Get some curry powder, mix a tspoon of it into a good dollop of decent mayo, dip the cauli florets into it raw and eat them as a snack.

[bobbie22]

I had a huge cauli last week, so I split it up and put most of it in plastic bags in the freezer. I had some for lunch last Sunday and it was revolting, so many thanks for the ideas on how to use the rest. Thanks

[Caran]

Yesterday I put some florets of caulie in a bowl. Put two rectangles of Boursin cheese with garlic and herbs on top. Put in the microwave for about 3 minutes.
It was great, a quick variation on cauliflower cheese.