4-Hour Chef – Lesson 3 – Coconut Cauliflower Curry Mash

This was a great little lesson, resulting not only in a decent new skill learnt, but also a great new recipe.

As mentioned in the 4-Hour Chef, this recipe results in a dish that ends up with a similar-ish look and texture to mashed potatoes, which if you’re avoiding carbs, is a great alternative.

I hardly ever buy and cook white cauliflower because I find the taste pretty bland on its own, and I don’t know of any good recipes to liven it up – up to now. It also helps that this recipe is pretty easy to follow, with very few ingredients needed.

Ingredients

1. Cauliflower
2. Unsweetened coconut milk
3. Curry powder
4. Salt
5. Cashews (which I didn’t add because I’m not a fan of nuts in savoury food)

Cauliflower – check. Coconut milk – check.

First up, cook the cauliflower in 180ml of coconut milk (and cashews) for 20 minutes. It is a lot easier if you break the cauliflower up into pieces before hand (wrap in a towel and smash the stem against the table until it breaks into little florets).

Boil the cauliflower florets in the coconut milk…

Remove from the heat, add salt and a pinch of curry powder. Use a fork and mash until it has a mashed potato-like consistency.

…and mash!

Verdict: An extremely tasty and relatively healthy dish which definitely livens up the cauliflower! I will definitely be making this again in the future.

Skills:

• mashing – failed, I think the cauliflower could have done with more boiling (or maybe on a higher heat setting). It was just too difficult to mash up with a fork! I will need to practise this one again.

Bonus points:

• N/A for this week