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- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone and in today's video
I'm gonna show you how to make a delicious
Parmesan cauliflower mash.
Yeah, you heard me, Parmesan cauliflower mash.
This is creamy from the cauliflower.
It's cheesy from the Parmesan.
It's big on flavor.
It's easy to make.
I think you're gonna love it.
Let's get to it.
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Okay, so the first thing that we're gonna do
is actually cook the cauliflower.
Now, these days luckily you can easily find rice cauliflower
at almost any grocery store.
If not, I have a video that you can watch
on how to make your own using a full head of cauliflower.
It's super simple but honestly
if you can find the pre-riced stuff, I recommend doing that.
So that's our first step.
We're gonna take that and we're gonna cook it
with just enough water to cover it,
bring that to a boil and just cook it for about 10 minutes
just to make it really nice and tender.
So let's do that first.
So just adding enough water just to cover it.
Think about like a half inch
then we're gonna bring it to a simmer
and let it cook for about 10 minutes
until the cauliflower's just nice and tender.
We've cooked the cauliflower, brought it to a boil,
let it cook for about 10 minutes
and now we have strained it.
We're actually gonna add in some butter
and then once that melts,
I'm then gonna puree the cauliflower with a hand mixer.
Okay, so now I'm just gonna go ahead
and start pureeing the cauliflower.
If you don't have a hand mixer, you can totally use a masher
that you would use for mashed potatoes.
So the thing that's really great about this dish
is cauliflower has this natural creaminess to it.
In fact, I've even made a vegan mac and cheese
using cauliflower as the sauce.
It's really, really wonderful
and so you don't actually have to add a whole lot to this
to get a nice delicious creamy mashed quote on quote potato.
The thing that's also nice about cauliflower
versus say making mashed potatoes
is that you can easily overwork potatoes
when you're making mashed potatoes
and they start to get kinda gummy
and it's just from the starches in there
but cauliflower doesn't have that problem
so you can't overwork them when you're making mashed
quote on quote cauliflower mashed potatoes.
Okay, so now we're gonna add in some Parmesan cheese.
So we mixed in the Parmesan cheese.
Now I'm gonna go ahead
and add in some freshly cracked pepper
and a little bit of salt.
Just whatever you wanna do to taste.
You might not need a whole lot because of the cheese.
Just kinda mix that in
and now I'm just gonna top it off with some chives.
Okay, so just to recap,
we cooked the cauliflower rice for about 10 minutes.
I pureed it.
You can totally just use a masher
that you would use for mashed potatoes
if you don't have a hand mixer on you.
Mixed in some freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
Don't use the bag Parmesan cheese.
That stuff is treated.
It's coated with a potato starch typically
which makes it hard to melt it in as easily.
So I recommend using fresh Parmesan.
So mixed in the Parmesan cheese, added some salt and pepper,
freshly cracked pepper, topped it off with some chives
and boom, there you go, Parmesan cauliflower mash.
Super tasty.
A great side dish that I think you're gonna love.
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I'll see ya guys next time.
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