This side dish makes a great cold crispy salad for lunch or dinner that you can enjoy with some chicken, flank steak, hummus, or bread. Cauliflower is such a health powerhouse; let’s eat more of it! Its raw form has such a subtle flavor that it acts as an amazing base for whatever herbs, spices, fruits, and nuts you add to it.
This healthy salad is so easy to make, only takes 15 minutes of chopping, blitzing, and mixing, and you’ll end up with the most amazing flavors and textures. It’s everything you’d want from a salad; light, crunchy, refreshing, satisfying, salty, tangy and bursting with fresh flavor from the herbs.
Why eat it raw:
Even though cauliflower is versatile and can be used baked, as a mash, as a pizza base, and so much more, but the scent of cooked cauliflower can be a bit off-putting. But in its raw form, I don’t think so. I feel like I’m eating a completely different food after just throwing the florets into a food processor or a blender – no baking, steaming, or cooking required! Using such simple raw prepping techniques, you maintain all of the cauliflower’s fantastic health benefits, and it turns in to a texture similar to rice and couscous.
Health benefits:
Cauliflower, like many other cruciferous vegetables, has many health benefits. A serving is about two dl, or about 100 grams, of chopped cauliflower. One serving of raw or cooked cauliflower has:
- Only 25 calories
- 0 grams of fat
- 5 grams of carbohydrates
- 100% of the daily recommended amount of vitamin C
- 25% of your daily vitamin K
- contains a substance as broken down may help prevent cancer as they help protect cells from damage and have anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and antibacterial effects.
- Sulfur-containing phytonutrients found in cauliflower believe to support liver detoxification by increasing the liver’s ability to neutralize potentially toxic substances.
- Many other enzymes found in cauliflower are also believed to assist with the detoxifying process the liver performs.
How to make:
Process cauliflower in food processor with to achieve couscous like consistency (can also chop finely by hand). Chop the other ingredients and mix. Add salt and pepper to taste, and you are done!
Other additions to this salad are:
- Sultanas for some sweetness
- Avocado for some richness
- Pomegranate seeds for some extra color and crunch
- Nuts for added calories
- Olive oil for added calories
RAW CAULIFLOWER COUSCOUS
Ingredients
- 1 cauliflower about 800 g
- 0,5 dl olive oil extra virgin
- 0,5 dl lemon juice freshly sqeezed
- 2 dl parsley fresh and chopped
- 3 dl tomatoes chopped and desseeded
- 0,5 dl almonds coarsly chopped
- salt and ppeppe to taste
Instructions
- Process cauliflower in a foodprocessor to achieve couscous like consistency. If you don't have one chop finely by hand instead.
- Place in a bowl and add lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.
- Chop herbs and tomatoes and mix in with the rest.
- Stir well and serve chilled.
