Cauliflower is a vegetable rich in vitamins and minerals, which is also very tasty. The best way to cook cauliflower, stew or bake it with sour cream.
Cauliflower with sour cream in the oven - the basic principles of preparation
This method of cooking cauliflower allows you to get a delicate dish with a creamy taste. You can stew, fry or bake cabbage in the oven.
Take the forks of cauliflower and disassemble it into small inflorescences. Then the vegetable is washed, placed in an enameled pan, poured with clean water and boiled for 20 minutes. Then lay the vegetable on a sieve, cool and cut into even smaller pieces.
In addition to cauliflower, you will need onions, spices, carrots and herbs. The peeled onions are finely chopped and fried in butter until golden brown. Then, grated carrots are added to it and stewed until soft.
On the basis of sour cream, a sauce is prepared by adding spices, dried or fresh herbs to it. In some recipes, tomato paste, mayonnaise or eggs are added to it.
If stewed cabbage, then put it in a pan with vegetables, pour sour cream, cover and cook for a quarter of an hour.
To bake cauliflower, the ingredients are laid out in layers and poured with sour cream sauce.
The dish will turn out to be satisfying if you add mushrooms or minced meat to it.
Recipe 1. Braised Cauliflower in Sour Cream
Ingredients
1 kg 200 g of cauliflower;
fresh greens;
two onions;
black pepper;
100 ml sour cream;
10 g oregano;
10 g of sea salt.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the cauliflower forks and divide into inflorescences. Place the vegetable in a pot of water and set on fire. Cook from boiling for about 20 minutes.
2. Bulbs are peeled and chopped finely. Sauté the onions in olive oil until transparent.
3. Discard the boiled cabbage in a colander and cool. Disassemble the cabbage for even smaller inflorescences. Put in a frying pan with onions, cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, for another 20 minutes.
4. Add sour cream to vegetables. Season with pepper and salt, mix and simmer another seven minutes.
5. Rinse the greens, chop finely and add to the pan. Stir and keep on fire for another five minutes.
Recipe 2. Cauliflower with sour cream in the oven
Ingredients
egg;
400 g of cauliflower;
100 g of cheese;
10 g butter;
salt;
100 g of sour cream;
freshly ground black pepper.
Cooking method
1. Break the egg into a bowl, slightly salt and beat with a whisk.
2. Cheese finely three and add it to the egg. Here we send sour cream and mix.
3. We wash the forks of cauliflower under the tap and divide it into small inflorescences. Put the vegetable in a pot of water. Slightly salt and boil for five minutes after boiling. We discard the cabbage in a colander and cool.
4. Lubricate the deep form with a piece of butter and put boiled cabbage into it.
5. Pour the vegetable with sour cream and cheese mixture and send to the oven for half an hour. Bake at 200 degrees. Serve with pickled or fresh vegetables.
Recipe 3. Braised Cauliflower in Sour Cream with Mushrooms
Ingredients
350 g of fresh porcini mushrooms;
salt;
3 g of ground coriander;
2 g of ground allspice;
80 ml of refined sunflower oil;
carrot;
2 g of ground paprika;
two onions;
50 g of sour cream;
forks of cauliflower.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the cabbage forks and disassemble into small inflorescences. Place the vegetable in a pot of salted water and boil for three minutes from boiling. Discard boiled cabbage on a sieve and cool.
2. Peel, wash and chop the mushrooms in arbitrary pieces.
3. Peel the onion and chop with thin feathers. Grind the peeled carrots on a grater for Korean carrots.
4. Fry the chopped vegetables in vegetable oil until the onions are clear. Lightly salt.
5. Add the mushrooms, season with spices and continue to fry until all the liquid from the mushrooms has evaporated. Lightly salt again.
6. Put the cauliflower in the pan and cook, stirring gently, for a few more minutes. At the end, add sour cream, mix and warm for three minutes. Serve a dish with fresh white bread.
Recipe 4. Cauliflower with sour cream in the oven with breadcrumbs
Ingredients
forks of cauliflower;
ground dry garlic;
150 g of cheese;
sea salt;
150 g sour cream;
150 g mayonnaise:
breadcrumbs.
Cooking method
1. We wash the cauliflower, leave the glass to water and cut it into small inflorescences. Each cut along in half. We cover the baking sheet with foil and spread the inflorescences on it with the cut down.
2. Combine sour cream with mayonnaise. Season with ground dry garlic and salt. Mix.
3. Grease the cabbage with the resulting sauce using a silicone brush.
4. Grind the cheese on a fine grater, add breadcrumbs to the cheese chips and mix. Sprinkle plenty of cabbage with the mixture.
5. We put in the oven preheated to 200 degrees. Bake for 25 minutes. Then turn off the oven and leave the pan in it for another ten minutes. Using a spatula, divide the dish into portions and serve with a vegetable salad.
Recipe 5. Braised Cauliflower in Sour Cream with Pork
Ingredients
four branches of dill;
150 g of cauliflower;
iodized salt;
liter of filtered water;
2 g of dry ground ginger;
a pound of pork;
3 g dried garlic;
half a glass of sour cream;
2 g of ground coriander and paprika.
Cooking method
1. Rinse the cauliflower forks and leave the glass to water. We divide the cabbage into inflorescences. Dip the vegetable in a pot of boiling water, slightly adding salt, and cook for seven minutes over medium heat. We discard the cauliflower onto a sieve and leave the glass to water.
2. We wash a piece of pork tenderloin, cut out veins and films. Cut the meat into small oblong slices.
3. Put the meat on the bottom of the pan and grease it with plenty of fat sour cream. Pour filtered water. Season with paprika, salt, coriander, dried ginger and garlic. We cover the pan with a lid and put on medium heat. Stew a quarter of an hour.
4. Add the cauliflower inflorescences to the meat and continue to simmer the same amount of time. We periodically alter. At the end, add finely chopped dill, mix and simmer for another five minutes. Serve with a salad of fresh or pickled vegetables.
Recipe 6. Cauliflower with sour cream in the oven with minced meat and rice
Ingredients
cauliflower - 300 g;
sea salt;
rice - 150 g;
spices;
minced meat - 300 g;
freshly ground pepper;
two eggs;
red bell pepper;
large onion;
100 g of sour cream;
3 cloves of garlic;
100 g of Dutch cheese.
Cooking method
1. We wash the forks of cauliflower and dry them on a towel. Divide the cabbage into small inflorescences.
2. Rinse the rice, constantly changing the water until it becomes transparent. We shift the cereals into a saucepan, fill it with water and boil until cooked. Spread the boiled rice in a bowl and cool.
3. Combine rice with minced meat, add the egg and finely chopped onions. Season with salt and pepper. Knead the mass well.
4. In a separate plate, combine sour cream with an egg and finely grated cheese. Lightly pepper and salt. Mix.
5. Lightly grease the deep form with fat. We spread the rice with minced meat. Lay out cauliflower on top. We release Bulgarian pepper from the stalk and seeds. Cut into rings and spread on top of the cabbage.
6. Pour the contents of the form with sour cream cheese sauce. Cover with a sheet of foil and put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes, then remove the foil and cook for another half hour.
Recipe 7. Cauliflower in sour cream with zucchini
Ingredients
200 g squash;
30 g of dill;
800 g of cauliflower;
40 g ghee;
200 g of sour cream 15%.
Cooking method
1. We divide the cauliflower into inflorescences. Large pieces are cut lengthwise.
2. Salt the cabbage and fry in a cast-iron skillet for ten minutes over medium heat, periodically shaking. Then cover and continue to fry the vegetable until golden brown. From time to time, drain the moisture and shake the pan.
3. My zucchini, and cut it into cubes. Add the vegetable to the cabbage. Season with spices and salt. We alter and cook under the lid until the vegetables are soft. Turn off the heat, add sour cream and mix. Serve garnished with sprigs of fresh green dill.
Cauliflower in sour cream - tips and tricks
Sometimes there may be insects in the cabbage fork that cannot be detected visually, so it is advisable to soak the cabbage in salted water for ten minutes.
To make the cabbage tastier, boil it in mineral water.
Do not cook cabbage for too long to make it crisp.
When boiling, the cabbage will not darken if you add a little lemon juice to the water.
