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Sounds delicious aniann, I’ll try your recipes, thanks! One question to your Tabbouleh Salad – do you cook the cauliflower first or do you leave it raw?
Here’s my contribution:
Cauliflower Rice “Carbonara” for 2
1 medium head of cauliflower pulsed in food processor
1 med. onion
1 tbsp. oil
4 slices Proscuitto (60 grams)cut in thin strips
3 eggs ligtly beaten
chives or green onion
Saute onion in oil until translucent,add prosciutto, then
the cauliflower, cover and cook at medium heat for about 10 minutes. Remove the lid, add the eggs and chives, stir and season.
About 700 cal and plentiful dinner for 2. If you saved all your calories for dinner you may add some parmesan cheese – 1 oz (28 g)= 90 calories.
usa here,
Cauliflower rice mediterranean low carb
Cauliflower, fresh, cooked (no salt or fat added)1 cup, pieces 29
Garlic, cooked ½ tablespoon 6
Olive oil 1 teaspoon 40
75 cals
chopper it all all por in2 pan
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or mashed
flaxmilk unswt 1 tablespoon ¼ cup 2 +-
Nonfat sour cream 1 tablespoon 12 +-
Your Menu Total 89 cals
Carbohydrate (g)***9 g
Dietary Fiber 3 g
luv this https://www.supertracker.usda.gov usa gov site
they r so detailed & i can export 2 exel word pdf
2 me the cauliflower is 2 sweet
trying 2 figure out how 2 get the sweetness out
any suggestions?
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also no sweetness
kelp noodles 2 whole cups! (always put in a strainer & rinse the salt water off choppered 2 a fine rice consistency
this a vegetable way super healthier than cauliflower
Total Calories: 24
4 cups 48 cals when i’m super hungry on fastday
what is great it absorbs any flavor
soy low salt w/ a pinch of butter
or my favorite hot wings sauce w/ chicken
anything 2 substitute rice
i buy mine a grocery store
here is a link
https://shop.goldminenaturalfoods.com/GLUTEN-FREE-KELP-NOODLES-16-OZ/productinfo/1601-1901
bon appetit all 😀
Hi Lilygirl, that’s not a silly question, I like cauliflower but don’t like the house to smell of cooked cauliflower. Anianns tabbouleh salad is made with raw cauliflower and you smell and taste mint, cucumbers, garlic, tomatoes. However, I had some left over and next day the fridge smelled of cauliflower, so next time I’ll just make enough for 1 meal. For my carbonara recipe you saute it with onion and cured ham, so the smell isn’t there. Since you chop the cauliflower very fine it just adapts the taste of the other ingredients. You can also add all kinds of seasonings and spices, asian and arabic spices work – I like harissa, oil and pulsed cauliflower and in 10 minutes it’s done. Try it and let us know how it went!
I love cauliflower rice and we eat it quite often. I don’t think it tastes overly “cauliflowery”, but I like cauliflower to start with. For fast days, I like doing this lemon and herb version: http://chocolateandvegetables.com/2013/09/18/lemon-herb-cauliflower-rice/
Finally got round to trying this. I don’t think I got a big enough cauliflower, but made the carbonara, and I thought it was amazing. I was still hungry after, so had some cooked turkey, but even my husband enjoyed it, just wished there was more.
Now to try all the other recipes…there may be a cauliflower shortage in Aberdeen soon 🙂
Hi Aniann
Fab idea! easy to buy and simple to cook is what we need. Looking forward to trying the Lime & Coriander rice with a homemade curry at the weekend (none fast day) sounds like a real treat. Could make it on a fast day too I suppose!
1st fast day today so have a long way to go yet but reading easy ideas spurs me on loads. Thanks Vicki
I tried cauliflower rice for the first time and I have to say I was a bit disappointed…firstly I don’t have a food processor so I had to grate all the cauliflower by hand (took ages & was SO messy!) then even after mixing some herbs & a bit of chilli powder in with the cauliflower rice it still tasted REALLY like cauliflower and even worse DRY cauliflower…ugh. What am I doing wrong? I don’t hate cauliflower I just found that making it into ‘rice’ intensified the flavour.
Thanks for this tip. I like rice and have no intention to cut it out of my diet and I don’t cook on fastdays anyway, so I wouldn’t use it for that but I tried it lastnight with curry and it was really nice. I really overcooked it but it didn’t seem to suffer (other than having a bit of water sitting under it). I liked the flavour and can see it as a really nice low-cal alternative to rice for those non-fastdays when I feel like rice might just push me over my main meal calorie limit & threaten my chocolate quota!!! This must NEVER happen 😉
Hi AGurl78 I’m afraid cauliflower will always taste like cauliflower. Adding spices won’t change that. I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong but it isn’t intended to be eaten on its own.
The idea is that it is a very low calorie alternative to rice on fast days as an accompaniment. If you have it with a veggie chilli or a chicken curry or something else with a sauce it soaks up the sauce like rice does and you don’t get the cauliflower taste so much. With the tabbouleh all the other flavours are intense so you don’t get just cauliflower.
If you have it on it’s own then I imagine it’s not so good but then rice just on its own is completely bland.
xx
When I have bought a food processor I will try and make it again. I think the problem with it being bland/dry was that I had it with chicken breasts & veggies (no sauce) so there was no sauce as such to soak into the cauliflower.
On the subject of sauces, does anyone know of any low cal sauces that are tasty & good for fast days?
Thanks 🙂
@grazia1957 – you can use couscous but 1 cupful of pulsed cauliflower is 25 calories with about 4g of carbs. You would need approx 70g of dry couscous to make 1 cupful and it would have approx 75 calories which includes about 15g of carbs.
The idea of using the cauliflower as a substitute on fast days is to keep the calories and carbs down. I make a roast veggie ‘cous cous’ on fast days using the cauliflower instead of ‘real’ cous cous.
But how you use your fast day calories is what works best for you.
xx
This is my recipe for low calorie Roast Veggie ‘cous cous’ .. using cauliflower.
Roast Vegetable ‘Cous cous’
Serves 2 110 calories per serving
200g of cauliflower ‘rice’ (50 cals)
½ tsp Ras al Hanout Moroccan spice (3 cals)
1 tbs each any 2 of – chopped coriander/celery leaves/ parsley/mint (2 cals)
Pinch each of freshly ground black pepper and sea salt
Mix all the above together and set aside in a covered bowl in the fridge to allow the flavours to develop
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60g Fennel bulb (22 cals)
30g celery (4 cals)
50g courgette (10 cals)
25g red onion(9 cals)
50g Sweet peppers (17 cals)
40g mushrooms (7cals)
30g butternut squash (25 cals)
30g sweet potato (25 cals)
Chop any or all of the above into 1 cm chunks
3 cloves garlic (15 cals) grated
12 sprays Frylight (12 cals)
1 tsp coconut oil (40 cals) worth the extra calories for the flavour but you can miss this out
Pinch each of freshly ground black pepper and sea salt
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Heat the oven to 180 degrees C
Put all of the veg and the garlic in a bowl and spray with 10 sprays of Frylight and add the coconut oil and seasoning and mix till veg are coated.
Spread the veg on a baking tray sprayed with 2 sprays of Frylight and bake for about 10 mins.
Keep an eye on this , you don’t want it overcooked.
Remove from oven and allow to cool completely. Stir into the cauliflower ’rice’.
Hi sylvestra,
I’ve just spotted, and cut and pasted, your roast veggie couscous. Very much my sort of thing. Thank you. Much as I love caulflower, I’m not sure about caulifower rice. Thinks: will give it a try when Himself isn’t around, I’m pretty sure he would think it a step too far.
What I would probably do on a fast day would be to carefully weigh out 50g of dry couscous to make 2 servings at approx 90 cal. The whole lot would probably add up to a little either side of 200, which is fine for a main meal on a fast day. For lunch I’m getting very good at finding recipes for soups that add up to as little as 70/80 cals. Skipper’s soup at 142 cals is still the favourite, though.
xx
Hi SSKul and welcome:
Google ‘low calorie soup recipes’ and thousands will come up.
Here are some tips for those just starting 5:2: https://thefastdiet.co.uk/forums/topic/the-basics-for-newbies-your-questions-answered/
Good Luck!
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