Best Easy Vietnamese Cauliflower Recipes

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EASY ROASTED CAULIFLOWER



Easy Roasted Cauliflower image

Even my kids will eat cauliflower when I make it like this. Roasting cauliflower in the oven makes it crunchy and the mixture of salt, brown sugar, and curry powder adds a slightly sweet flavor.

Provided by tpuell

Categories     Fruits and Vegetables     Vegetables     Cauliflower     Roasted

Time 45m

Yield 4

Number Of Ingredients 5

3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
1 head cauliflower, broken into florets
1 ½ teaspoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon mild curry powder

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet with 1 tablespoon olive oil.
  • Combine cauliflower and 2 tablespoons olive oil in a bowl. Mix brown sugar, salt, and curry powder in a small bowl. Taste and adjust until mixture is sweet and salty. Sprinkle over cauliflower and mix well. Spread cauliflower in a single layer on the baking sheet.
  • Roast in the preheated oven for 20 minutes. Turn cauliflower and roast for an additional 15 to 20 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 132.8 calories, Carbohydrate 9.5 g, Fat 10.3 g, Fiber 3.7 g, Protein 2.9 g, SaturatedFat 1.4 g, Sodium 625.3 mg, Sugar 5.1 g

EASY VIETNAMESE CAULIFLOWER



Easy Vietnamese Cauliflower image

Slightly adapted from the cookbook titled Quick and Easy Vietnamese. This recipe doesn't take long to make. If you want to make it vegetarian, replace the fish sauce with soy sauce, but then you will loose the Vietnamese flavor.

Provided by Andtototoo

Categories     Cauliflower

Time 18m

Yield 3-4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 1/2 tablespoons minced garlic
1 medium cauliflower
3 tablespoons fish sauce
3 tablespoons water
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
3/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
salt, as needed
3 green onions, cut into 1 inch lengths
2 -3 tablespoons minced cilantro
1 teaspoon sesame seed oil (optional)

Steps:

  • Wash the cauliflower and then break the cauliflower into small florets. Set aside.
  • In a cereal bowl put the fish sauce, water, sugar, ground black pepper, salt and green onions. Stir and set aside.
  • Heat a large nonstick frying pan over medium-high heat. When the frying pan is hot, add the vegetable oil and let it warm for about 30 seconds. Add the garlic and stir for another 30 seconds.
  • Add the cauliflower florets and flip over often, using a spachula, until many of the cauliflower pieces have brown spots.
  • Restir the ingredients in the cereal bowl and add to the cauliflower. Stir until everything is well combined.
  • Cover the pan and cook for 4 minutes, stirring about every minute.
  • When the cauliflower is tender crisp, remove cover and drizzle with the sesame seed oil. Stir.
  • Remove the cauliflower from the heat and garnish with the cilantro. Serve at once.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 195.1, Fat 13.9, SaturatedFat 1.8, Sodium 1451, Carbohydrate 15.8, Fiber 5.4, Sugar 7.8, Protein 5.3

VIETNAMESE BEEF STIR-FRIED WITH CAULIFLOWER



Vietnamese Beef Stir-Fried With Cauliflower image

This recipe, which is pretty easy, is from a cookbook titled Into the Vietnamese Kitchen. I may have adapted the recipe a bit I don't remember, but this recipe is very delicious and her cookbook quite good.

Provided by Andtototoo

Categories     Vietnamese

Time 40m

Yield 6 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 12

1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 3/4 tablespoons fish sauce
1 1/2 lbs flank steaks, partly frozen
1 cauliflower
6 -8 tablespoons oil, divided
1 onion, sliced into half rounds
4 garlic cloves, minced
salt, as needed
ground black pepper, as needed

Steps:

  • In a large mixing bowl put the 1/2 teaspoons black pepper, sugar, cornstarch, soy sauce and fish sauce.
  • Stir to blend.
  • Take the flank steak and cut across the grain into thin strips.
  • Add to the marinade in the mixing bowl and let it marinate while you work on the rest of the recipe, stirring occasionally.
  • Wash the cauliflower and cut into small florets.
  • Bring a large saucepan of salted water to a boil.
  • Add the cauliflower and once the water starts boiling again, boil for one minute.
  • Drain immediately and set the cauliflower aside.
  • Heat a large nonstick frying pan over high heat and then add 4 Table. oil.
  • Once the oil has had a minute to warm, add the onion.
  • Stir-fry until the onion has cooked to a light brown color.
  • Add the garlic and stir-fry just until the garlic starts to brown on the edges.
  • Remove the onion and garlic into a medium-size bowl, leaving the remaining oil in the frying pan.
  • Add half the beef to the fryng pan and cook just until the pink disappears, using a spachula to flip over the meat.
  • Add the meat to the bowl with the onion and garlic.
  • If necessary, add a little more oil to the frying pan, add the rest of the beef and cook it like you did the first batch.
  • Remove the second batch of meat from the frying pan.
  • Put 1-2 Table. of oil in the frying pan.
  • Heat until hot.
  • Add the cauliflower and stir-fry until the cauliflower has some brown spots.
  • The heat needs to be high for this.
  • Add a little salt and black pepper.
  • Turn off heat and readd the meat and onions back into the frying pan and mix with the cauliflower.
  • Check for salt and pepper.
  • This recipe should have a generous amount of ground black pepper.
  • Good served with plain rice.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 353.5, Fat 23.1, SaturatedFat 6, Cholesterol 46.5, Sodium 663.9, Carbohydrate 9.9, Fiber 2.8, Sugar 4.4, Protein 26.9

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