No Rice Fried Rice (Cauliflower Fried Rice)

 

 Like many people, I really enjoy Chinese or Asian inspired food, just look at my previous entries! Anyways, tonight I was craving fried rice, but those of you that know me, even if I drink only water, my body turns it to fat so I've been finding out that starchy carbs are not my friend. What was I to do! I remembered a friend telling me how someone they know made fried rice with cauliflower as the "rice" and I kept thinking "how delusional."  

So tonight as I was microwaving the cauliflower I kept wondering why people try to trick themselves with horrible substitutes, and why am I one of those people tonight!  So I found a head of cauliflower, cut it in half and microwaved it til soft. I chopped it in the food processor until the size of rice and put t aside.

Now, the flavoring is up to you, but I will post the recipe I used. Oh and by the way.....It actually DOES taste like yummy fried rice!

half head cauliflower

1 tbsp soy sauce

1 tbsp fresh grated ginger

1 tbsp fish sauce (optional)

handful of peas

handful of green beans, chopped

handful of chopped mushrooms

1 onion chopped

2 tsp garlic chili sauce

1 egg

1 tbsp oil

1. Cook the cauliflower until soft. Place in food processor and pulse until you get small rice sized bits

2. Heat the oil and add the onion and cook for a minute. Add ginger and chili sauce and cook for another minute.

3. Add cauliflower, green beans and mushrooms. Next, form a bare circle in the middle of the pan where you will scramble the egg. Once scrambled, mix into the rice.

4. Strir fry for a minute then add the soy sauce and fish sauce. Stir fry more.

5. Turn off the heat and add the peas.

DONE