Adrienne Jerram

Adrienne Jerram

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Cauliflower never tasted so good - Ali's Cauliflower Mash

Ali's major contribution to my health this Fit and Fabulous Feb has been this fit and fabulous cauliflower mash recipe. ** 

It will remind you of mashed potato but with fewer calories and way fewer 'evil white carbs'. It works out to be around 175 calories for the whole recipe. That's only 44 calories per serve. Team it with a 200gm serve of white fish and you have a whole plateful at less than 300 calories.

Ingredients
1 whole cauliflower
1 cup water
1 vegetable stock cube
2 cloves garlic
4 tablespoons lite sour cream (or no fat sour cream if you can find it)
1 tablespoon caramelised balsamic
¼ cup white wine
1 tablespoon grated parmesan
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp ground cardamom
Salt and pepper to taste

Method
Cut cauliflower into florets
Boil/stem/microwave cauliflower with stock cube and garlic cloves until cauliflower is tender
Retain liquid
Put cooked cauliflower into a food processer.
Add all the other ingredients and as much of the retained liquid as necessary to achieve the desired consistency (think mashed potato).
Add salt and pepper (and anything else) to taste.



Why Cauliflower is good for you.

Cauliflower contains allicin, which can keep your heart healthy and reduce the risk of strokes. Eating cauliflower can also help to maintain a healthy cholesterol level.  Folate, needed for cell growth and replication is also found in cauliflower and cauliflower is an excellent source of fibre. Most recently, scientists have found that cauliflower contains indole-3-carbinol, a substance that can affect the metabolism of estrogen in the body, and prevent breast and other cancers.

** He has also contributed in many other ways, including going along with my crazy aqua aerobics class, keeping me company at 6.30am spin, and digging through mounds of lost property, twice, to try and find my lost trainers.

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