Preparation Time : 20 minutes
Cooking Time : 10 to 15 minutes
Serving : 4 members
Description
Cauliflower salad.A very healthy salad which tastes really good. Very rarely does healthy food taste good. This dish is my own invention made out of whatever ingredients were available at home.At times you do get fed up cooking the regular food that you cook everyday and at a point feel monotonous about every thing around you. That’s when i start to experiment with new dishes in my kitchen and vent out the monotonous in me . Cauliflower is one among my favourite vegetables. (I know many people hate it). I remember the stepped slops of the hills filled with cauliflower fields which were so visible from the girls dom in our boarding school in ooty. I loved gazing at the fields through those huge glass windows in our Dom. I guess those cauliflower fields belonged to my class mate Thiyagu Venkatesh. (not sure if that’s right).
Ingredients
Ingredients | Quantity |
|---|---|
| Cauliflower | 2 cups of flower lets |
| pineapple | 1 1/2 cups chopped to bite size chunks ( I used tinned pineapple 4 1/2 slices ) |
| Egg whites omelet | 1 , made with 2 egg whites seasoned with salt and pepper to taste , cut into thin long stripes |
| Light mayonnaise | 4 tablespoons |
| Salt | to taste |
| Chilli flakes | 1 teaspoon |
| Dried oregano | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Dried basil | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Olive oil | 1/4 teaspoon( optional ) |
Method
- Preheat an oven to 180 degree celsius . Immerse the cauliflower flower lets in boiling salted water for 5 minutes .
- Drain and wash the cauliflower . Line a baking tray with foil paper and place the cauliflower equally apart from each other and sprinkle very little salt over the cauliflower and bake for 6 to 8 minutes . ( can saute the cauliflower in 1/4 teaspoon olive oil in a pan as well instead of using an oven ) .
- Mix mayonnaise with all the other ingredients except for pineapple , cauliflower and egg white stripes .taste and adjust .
- Add the cauliflower , pineapple and egg whites and toss well to coat the mayonnaise mix all around the cauliflower and pineapple .
- Serve at room temperature or chilled .
