Recipe: Garlic Mashed Cauliflower

Mashed cauliflower is a great side dish alternative to mashed potatoes. I highly recommend cooking and trying mashed cauliflower for your self – especially if you are craving some comfort food. Mashed cauliflower is just as warm, cozy, and fulfilling as mashed potatoes, but without all the starch, carbs, and calories. Online you will find a bunch of different recipes. Some call for milk, cheese, oil, butter, etc. My recipe doesn’t call for any of that stuff. It’s completely paleo and Whole 30 approved. It doesn’t call for an oil or fat either (making it very low calorie), because it tastes great without it! Additionally, you don’t need a food processor or blender for my recipe! That always makes me happy, because they are a pain to clean.

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Garlic Mashed Cauliflower

(Makes 2 servings)

What you need:

2 heads of roasted garlic (Never roasted garlic before? Here’s how: Roasted Garlic Recipe)

1 large head of cauliflower

3 cups of organic chicken broth

Fresh cracked ground pepper

Garlic powder

Onion powder

Rosemary

Thyme

Cut cauliflower into florets. Don’t worry about cutting small pieces – the cauliflower cooks down really well and you will not have problem mashing it. Put cauliflower florets (you can throw in the stems too) in a pot with the chicken broth. Add pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, rosemary, and thyme.

 

Place a lid on the pot and cook over medium-high heat for 25 minutes or when the cauliflower falls apart when you touch it with a fork. I usually just keep the cauliflower cooking until the roasted garlic is cooked and cooled.

Strain chicken broth. You may want to add some of the broth back in if you don’t feel like your mash is moist enough, but I have never had that problem. Add roasted garlic (I keep my hand around the foil to avoid burning my fingers and squeeze the cloves out) to the drained cauliflower. Mash with a fork or a potato masher. You can add more pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, rosemary, and thyme to taste. I never add salt when I make mashed cauliflower, because chicken broth generally has a lot of sodium. If you use a low-sodium broth you can add salt to taste.

 Voila! Mashed Cauliflower!