Top Cauliflower Recipes for Winter and Beyond

Don’t you ever boil cauliflower. The humble white vegetable deserves more to bring out all its nutty-flavoured glory. Roast cauliflower whole, head and all, or toss the cauliflower florets in spices and pop them into bright and colourful salads as a side dish or substantial main.

Cauliflower and cheese are a classic match for good reason – see the cauliflower mac and cheese, classic cauliflower cheese recipe, and our triple-cheese cauliflower bake to rule them all. And of course, there are easy cauliflower recipes to have on hand, such as a reliable cauliflower soup.

We also have Middle Eastern-style recipes for cauliflower, vegan dishes where the cruciferous veg is the star, a curried cauliflower recipe, and a Kerela curry served atop cauliflower rice. Then, there are recipes with cauliflower roasted whole and served with a salty anchovy sauce. And if we had to pick the best cauliflower recipe in this collection? Well, it might just be Nik Hill’s show-stopping cauliflower cheese tart.

Here are our favourite, most creative cauliflower recipes.

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Dukkah-crusted cauliflower with tahini

Fried cauliflower in baharat and tahini sauce

Baharat cauliflower and walnut-bread sauce

Roast garlic, cheddar and ale soup with fried cauliflower

Summer tomato curry with cauliflower rice

Roasted whole cauliflower with wakame butter and toasted crumbs

Roasted cauliflower, Brussels sprout and chickpea salad

A lamb and cauliflower “shepherd’s pie”

Harissa-roasted cauliflower with preserved-lemon dressing

Roasted cauliflower salad with chickpeas and dates

Triple-cheese cauliflower

Cauliflower and egg “fried rice”

Cauliflower and hazelnut strozzapreti with Gorgonzola

Roast cauliflower hummus with fried chickpeas and flatbread

Cauliflower mac and cheese

Freekeh and shaved cauliflower salad with herb dressing

Whole roast cauliflower with parsley and anchovy sauce

Cauliflower fritters with lemon

Fuyu’s fried cauliflower with white miso, sesame and furikake

Cauliflower and anchovy pasta

Tonka’s warm cauliflower salad with yoghurt, mint and green chilli

Cauliflower piccalilli with ham and buttermilk biscuits

Supermaxi’s battered beetroot and cauliflower

Cauliflower and bacon soup

Stokehouse’s candied walnuts, fried spiced cauliflower, currants and pine nuts

Roast cauliflower with almonds, Israeli couscous and za’atar

Cauliflower steaks with grain salad and spiced dressing

Hungarian paprika-spiced cauliflower soup

A classic cauliflower soup with cheddar toast

Cauliflower, silken tofu and walnut rice bowl

Cauliflower, pomegranate and quinoa salad

Roasted cauliflower curry with lime and coriander

Kerala-style prawn curry with cauliflower rice

Orecchiette with cauliflower and walnut brown-butter pesto

Roasted cauliflower salad with yoghurt dressing and almonds

Fried cauliflower with parmesan wafers and tahini yoghurt

Cauliflower, bacon and cheese fritters

Roasted cauliflower and tahini dip with crudités and flatbread

Pan-fried ocean trout with cauliflower, almonds and brown butter

Cauliflower cheese

Dhal with crisp cauliflower and rasam

Warm cauliflower, chickpea and beetroot salad

Potato and cauliflower tortelloni

Leek, chorizo and cauliflower bake

Whole roasted cauliflower with fermented chilli butter

Nik Hill’s cauliflower cheese tart

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