("Dio e Zingaro" by Municipale Balcanica)
Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone, and in today's video,
I'm gonna show you how to make
a delicious and easy mashed cauliflower.
It's super simple, big on flavor.
It's creamy.
I think you're gonna love it, so let's get to it.
("Dio e Zingaro" by Municipale Balcanica)
Okay, so the first thing that we're gonna do
is actually cook the cauliflower.
Now these days, luckily, you can easily find
riced 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.
Okay, so we're just gonna add enough water
to the cauliflower just to cover it.
Think about by like a half-inch.
And then we're gonna bring it to a simmer
and let it cook for about 10 minutes
until the cauliflower is 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.
If you want to make this vegan though,
since we're just making this easy cauliflower mash,
if you want to make it vegan, you don't need the butter.
You can actually just reserve some of the water
that it had cooked in and use that to like puree it.
I'm gonna use 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.
(whirring)
If you don't have a hand mixer,
you can totally use like a masher
that you would use for mashed potatoes.
(whirring)
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-unquote potato.
(whirring)
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 kind of 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-unquote cauliflower mashed potatoes.
(whirring)
Now I'm gonna go ahead and add in some
freshly cracked pepper and a little bit of salt.
Just whatever you want to do to taste.
Just gonna mix that in.
Okay, so just to recap, we cooked our riced cauliflower,
strained it, pureed it. I did it with some butter.
You can definitely do it with just the broth
from actually cooking the cauliflower.
And then added in some salt and pepper,
and I'm just gonna top it off with some chives.
And boom, that's how you have a delicious and easy
cauliflower mash.
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I'll see you guys next time.
("Dio e Zingaro" by Municipale Balcanica)