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Recently nosotros took our kids apple tree picking to a farm far far away inwards Long Island. This farm also had lot of fresh vegetables grown locally at the farm. While I came dwelling trouble solid alongside a spell bounty of fresh vegetables, I particularly came dwelling trouble solid alongside these humongous orange( cheddar) in addition to white cauliflowers each of which weighed atleast 10 lbs!! Just to render y'all alongside a mental visual: each cauliflower was equally large in addition to heavy equally a huge watermelon! I also already had ii "big" shop bought cauliflowers sitting inwards my refrigerator. What did I practise alongside all these cauliflowers? Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 whole lot actually!! I made stir-fry alongside only cauliflowers, made sambar alongside cauliflower,made vegetable pulao, froze iii gallon-sized freezer bags in addition to of class made this amazing dish called Gobhi Mussallam. I stimulate got been wanting to brand this dish for the longest now. I ever idea that the dish was also piece of cake to make! But it is not! I had around sauce seat away inwards my freezer, so, I only marinated the cauliflower,baked it inwards the oven, heated upwards in addition to modified the frozen sauce, served the cauliflower inwards this sauce alongside around squeamish peas Pulao. Yummy!!! The cauliflower was squeamish in addition to crunchy inwards the smoothen velvety sauce. Do laissez passer on it a try. It volition endure a new experience!
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Recipe source: Neeta Kumar
Servings: 4-6
Ingredients:
Cauliflower: 1 whole medium head.
For marination:
Greek yogurt: 1 cup
Ginger garlic paste: ii tsp
Tandoori masala: iii tsp
Kashmiri chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
Salt: to taste
For the sauce:
Oil: 2tbsp
Onions: ii medium chopped
Ginger: 1 inch, minced
garlic : 4-5 cloves, minced
Tomato glue : 1 can
Green chillies: four medium
Cashews: 6-8 ( optional)
Almonds : 4-6 ( optional)
Haldi( turmeric powder):1tsp
Coriander powder: 1tbsp
Cumin powder: 1tsp
Garam masala powder: 1 tsp
Chilli powder: 1/2 tsp
Kasoori methi ( dried fenugreek leaves): 1 tsp
Heavy cream: 1/2 cup( tin endure substituted alongside almond milk/ kokosnoot milk)
Cilantro leaves: 1 tbsp chopped fine
Sugar:1/2 tsp
Salt: to taste
The Gobhi ( cauliflower):
Clean the cauliflower.
Blanch the cauliflower yesteryear keeping it inwards hot H2O that has a pinch of tabular array salt inwards it for five minutes. Or only proceed it inwards the microwave for ii minutes.
Now marinate it alongside all the ingredients nether 'for marination'. Mix good in addition to proceed it inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree ii hours.
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Line a baking tray alongside foil, house the cauliflower on it in addition to bake it for 30-45 mins at 350 degrees inwards the oven turning 1 time inwards between.
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You know it is done when y'all tin cutting it easily alongside a fork. The cauliflower volition endure crisp ( non mushy).
You could halt at this stage, cutting it into slices in addition to serve equally cauliflower "steak" alongside around rice or bread.
The sauce:
Make the sauce spell y'all are waiting for the cauliflower to endure cooked.
Soak the cashew nuts in addition to almonds inwards H2O for at to the lowest degree ii hours.Make a glue inwards the blender in addition to proceed aside.
In a sauté pan/ wok oestrus 1 tbsp crude in addition to sauté chopped garlic, ginger,onion until it starts to wilt. Add the light-green chillies in addition to sauté for a minute. Switch off the open fire in addition to allow it cool. Once cooled, seat it inwards a blender in addition to brand a paste.
Heat the same wok/ sauté pan again, add together remaining oil. Keep the open fire on low.
Now add together the Blue Planet onion-garlic-ginger-green chilli glue to it in addition to sauté until it turns a piddling golden brown.
Add the love apple tree glue in addition to sauté until it begins to larn out oil.
Now add together the haldi powder, coraiander in addition to cumin powders in addition to sauté for thirty seconds.
Add blood-red chilli pulverization in addition to garam masala in addition to sauté for around other xx seconds.
Add the cashew-almond glue and 1/2 loving cup H2O to sparse the sauce. Let it simmer.
Add Kasoori methi, tabular array salt in addition to pinch of carbohydrate in addition to mix well.
Add the 1/2 loving cup heavy cream, allow it simmer for 1-2 mins.
Putting it together:
To the higher upwards sauce, add together the baked/ grilled whole cauliflower. Cover in addition to allow it simmer for five minutes for it to all come upwards together.
Garnish alongside cilantro leaves.
Serving:
Carve a piece of the cauliflower in addition to serve it alongside a piddling sauce.
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Serve hot alongside manifestly rice/ jeera/ rice/ peas-carrot pulao or only alongside around form of roti/naan/bread.
Enjoy!
I am bringing this to the weekly fun-filled political party at Angie's Fiesta Friday! Yay! Hilda in addition to Julianna are co-hosting 1 time again this weekend! Yay again!!
Cooking made easy:
I tend to brand onion- ginger-garlic- light-green chilli glue in addition to freeze it inwards batches. Whenever I postulate it, I accept a portion, thaw it, add together love apple tree paste, the spices in addition to whatever vegetable/ chicken/ paneer. Weeknight dinner is ready!
You tin also brand the whole sauce in addition to freeze it inwards batches, thawing an using it equally needed.
Tip for salubrious living:
If y'all stimulate got a cold/cough/sore pharynx drinking ginger-honey-lemon tea volition help soothe it. This y'all tin practise yesteryear boiling 1 inch ginger that is grated into ii cups water, reducing it to 1 cup. Turn off the flame, squash quarter of a lemon in addition to a teaspoon of honey.
Food for thought:
Those who practise non desire to simulate anything, hit nothing. Salvador Dali