Cauliflower salad

Quick suppers Italian cauliflower salad recipe

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Date Published:
25/09/2007
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This is a warm Italian salad recipe from Rimini, with clear Sicilian and North African influences. You can eat it as a main course or a side dish.

Serves 2 as a main or 4 as a side dish
Ready in 25 minutes

Nutritional Information

Per serving:
634kcals
52.4g fat (6.3g saturated)
12.7g protein
29.6g carbs
26.6g sugar
0.1g salt

Ingredients

  • 1 medium cauliflower, leaves discarded, broken into small florets
  • Generous pinch of saffron
  • 75ml olive oil or rapeseed oil
  • 1 large red onion, thinly sliced
  • 50g pine nuts
  • 50g raisins
  • Extra-virgin olive oil, to dress
  • Small handful chopped fresh mint
  • Small handful chopped fresh flatleaf parsley

Method: How to make cauliflower salad

1. Heat a saucepan filled with a generous amount of salted water and, when it comes to a rolling boil, pop in the cauliflower and saffron. Cook for just 2-3 minutes, so that the cauliflower picks up a little colour from the saffron but stays very much al dente. Drain well and spread on a tray to cool quickly.

2. Meanwhile, put the oil in a frying pan over a high heat. When it's just starting to show wisps of smoke, add the onion. Fry briskly for 5-6 minutes, stirring occasionally, until they start to look crispy and caramelised. Add the pine nuts and raisins. Stir and cook for just a couple of minutes (the raisins will swell and the pine nuts should colour a little). Tip into a sieve to drain off the excess oil and transfer to a large bowl.

3. To serve, toss the cauliflower with the onions, nuts and raisins and season to taste. Drizzle generously with extra-virgin olive oil and scatter with the herbs. Some people like to serve this with shavings of a sheep's cheese (Pecorino is perfect).

© delicious. magazine

Wine note

Pick a Pinot Blanc from Alsace or a nutty white Rhone.

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