This is a little side dish that I learned years ago. It is traditionally eaten with Arabic bread. We used to eat it here and there for breakfast, but over the past 6 years I had forgotten about it. One day a few months back I whipped it up and the kids loved it.
Ingredients
One head of cauliflower
1 Tbs. olive oil
Garnish- 1/2 tsp. dry mint
Sauce ingredients
2 cups plain yogurt
1 large clove garlic
2 Tbs. Tahini
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbs. lemon juice
Put all sauce ingredients in a blender and mix well. Refrigerate until needed.
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
This recipe calls for deep frying the cauliflower but I don’t do that any more. Sprinkle a little olive oil on a baking pan or spray it with cooking spray. Wash the cauliflower and cut into bite size pieces. Place cauliflower on tray, lightly salt. Place tray with cauliflower in oven and let it cook until tender and a little brown. I cooked it for 40 minutes. Remove from oven. Let it cool a little so you can work with it.
Place cooked cauliflower in a bowl and smash it with a fork. It can be a little chunky. Pour sauce over cauliflower and lightly mix with a spoon, pour onto a plate. Drizzle olive oil on top and sprinkle with mint. This is usually eaten with Arabic bread.
My kind of recipe, thanks for posting. N.
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sure! glad you like it
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Wow that is different. I like cauliflower and yogurt as well. Will have to try this house.
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thanks, I think it is very traditional and often calls for cooked lamb etc. But this is how my mil made it just a quick meal with bread
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I’m going to try it.
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Thanks let me know if you like it! please
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I will
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🙂
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Looking so good Lynz. Thanks for sharing 💕💕💕
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Hi Deanne, thanks! hugs
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Sounds delicious Lynz :-
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hi dear, I hope you are doing well 🙂
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Hi Lynz, sorry to say I just cannot get behind Cauliflower or any of its associated recipes. I think the saying goes “Cauliflower? I’d rather lick my own….” For this reason and this reason alone I cannot like this post…. 😉
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Cameron cameron cameron, poor cauliflower has a bad rap!!! ha ha just kidding thanks for comenting
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Looks yummy! Great use of cauliflower. Interesting that you would eat it for breakfast!
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Yes we actually ate it all day ha ha Thanks Antonia
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Well, well interesting combination!
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yes it is interesting!
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I think I will love this! Thanks!
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I hope so! Loved your post on the super foods book! really inspired me
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Thanks Lynn! It’s an inspiring book: all totally new!
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Yes it sounds good
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Oh I love anything with tahini! 🙂 Great recipe, thank you! :*
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Hi Deniza thanks!
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I couldn’t go to your blog to say hi and see posts just so you know 🙂 It says private
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My blog is not on wordpress anymore! It’s askdeniza.com 😉
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oh ok!! I will try that
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ok I went there and signed up so hope I am following
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Actually you were already on my list I imported all my wordpress followers 😊 And the ones I follow too so I don’t miss your posts❤️
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oh ok good!
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We love cauliflower. I noticed in a comment above that you said this recipe is sometimes made with lamb, and that is what I remember having in the Middle East. Nice to know it’s good without the meat.
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yes this is something my mother in law put together with her left over cauliflower from another dish. she deep fried the cauliflower which I dont do. This is just very quick and no fuss. Glad you like it
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Wow! You’re truly amazing!!!
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Awwwe thanks!
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I love the spicing. You make everything look so great!
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Oh thanks Carol
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My pleasure! I am learning a lot about different foods and different cultures just from blogging! Who would have thought?
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Me too!
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Sounds delicious Lyn, always had cucumber never cauliflower, love that!!
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Thanks suzanne
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Yummmm… Thank you for this lyn.. This makes me feel so good!! I’m gonna try this for sure!! I never knew, it was made this way.. 😱😱
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Well this is a twist the way I like it lol
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😋😋😋
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🙂
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👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️
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Why Why Why does it have to have yogurt… I like Cauliflower, what did that innocent Cauliflower do to deserve that?!
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Haha juan! Ok i made spaghetti yesterday give me a breaklol.:)
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I had a craving for spaghetti the whole day after seeing that…
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Lol
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I have a home grown cauliflower and this is now my inspiration for how I will prepare it. Looks great!
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Thanks!
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Looks delicious! I have a little change I will make. I love to roast cauliflower. Such a delicious taste…then add your idea for yogurt…..I’m making this!
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I am so glad! thanks!
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I like this recipe a lot. It’s very different to our traditional Cauliflower au gratin (Cauliflower Cheese) but I really do love yoghurt, and roast cauliflower! So this looks like a great alternative that could be served with so many things. Thank you, Lynn.
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Thanks Millie!! I love your new post!
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Thank you! I so wanted to nominate you for this, but I have the feeling that you don’t do award or challenge posts. I haven’t seen any on your blog, so I thought I’d better not.
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Thank you Millie! I feel so bad but to be honest as you saw with your reblog I am not good at this stuff. the first 3 awards I did were not great, it took me all day. Then I reblogged twice and people thought I had put up the two articles!! They were telling me it was a great recipe etc. I have to get my daughter to help me and then I got so far behind I just gave up! so I now don’t even try! I love to mention people and put their link so I decided ok that is my thing. Thanks so much Millie! I loved reading, I forgot you have 6!!!!
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To be honest, Lynn, award posts do take a long time to do, and if you already post a lot – as you do – they’re probably not worth doing. (I’ve got three waiting to be done at the moment.) It took a while fo me to do the Challenge post, too, – but only because I’m an idiot and write long answers. Other people are sensible and just do a sentence for each. Somehow, I just have to go over the top.
I agree – daughters are very useful when it comes to sorting out difficult things on WP. My blog wouldn’t have survived without Louise regularly rescuing me. The younger people just seem to know how to do these things automatically. Me, I’m a techno -nerd! 😀
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Yes they do help so much!!!
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Thanks so much for sharing… I love learning about traditional foods from around the world, even better if I can make them at home. I am definitely going to try this! The timing couldn’t be better as there is a head of cauliflower sitting in my fridge from my CSA pick up this week. Yum!
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oh yea! I hope you like it!
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This looks really delicious, Lynn! I’ve never known how to cook cauliflower, and this recipe definitely looks like something I would love to learn! I love yogurt sauces!
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I am glad you like it!
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Cauliflower is so versatile!! I love this recipe 🙂
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Hi Cathy! I am glad you like it 🙂
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Yes I love cauliflower!
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I love roasted cauliflower and this looks so refreshing with the yogurt sauce Lynz 🙂
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Hi Nandini, thanks!
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Wow flavorsome Lynz….
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Hi Chitra, thank you dear 🙂
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thanks Chitra!
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Yum yum yum
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Thanks!
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Looks yummy – I love cauliflower!
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me too thanks!
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Interesting combination and very interesting that it is eaten for breakfast.
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thanks Bernadette, well you can eat it any time and we did just eat it as a snack as well.
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I would have never thought of this combination! Thanks for sharing Lynn:)
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Thanks sadie
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What an interesting way to serve cauliflower. You sound like you have really happy children, thanks to their good mother:-)
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Thanks:)
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Sounds so scrumptious, Lynn!
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Thanks dear
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Sounds delicious and different from other cauliflower recipes I’ve seen, even Middle Eastern ones!
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Thanks
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Sounds very delicious Lynn 🙂
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Thanks Freda
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I prepare this almost in the same way… 🙂
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really? cool!
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🙂 …
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I purchased mini naan bread as substitute to pizza crusts. I throw in any kind of toppings for our pizza night. This yogurt sauce and cauliflower would be great substitute to tomato sauce then top with fresh mozzarella and Feta cheese. Oh, delicious! 😀
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oh yummmm great idea!
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yes, indeed! 🙂
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I don’t care for yogurt but gave you a thumbs up anyway because somehow you still managed to make it look tasty [to me] lol
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Awwe your so sweet!
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I LOVE this!!!! I could eat this morning, noon and night!!!
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ha ha I am so glad Elaine! How are you?
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Hi, I’m good, I keep meaning to do a post then not getting round to it!
I’m currently in Abu Dhabi, staying with my Mum, getting my Middle East fix 🙂 x
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Oh fun!!! yeahh! How long did you live there and do you have any middle eastern heritage! sorry don’t answer if that is too personal!
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Not at all…I moved to Dubai in January 1984 and I was here full time for 4 and a half years; I left (when I was 17) to go back to the UK to go to college, which is when my Mum left my Dad and also ended up elsewhere in the UK. My Dad then stayed on for another 15 years and I visited several times a year for a while, and in the meantime my Mum remarried and ended up in Oman, then Abu Dhabi, so I’ve visited them too!
She has now been in Abu Dhabi for 18 years, and now married to husband number 3 (the best of the lot)…so really I’ve been coming to and from the UAE for over 30 years. It’s been in my life since I was 12 years old and no one had ever heard of the UAE or Dubai, we used to have to get an atlas out to show people where it was!
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ha ha wow what a rich life you have lead! More like my kids! thanks for sharing!! 🙂 Glad mom has a good one this time.
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She does!!
By the way, that’s only part of it…I was born in the north of the U.K. and moved to Holland when I was four months old, stayed for 2 years, then back to the north of the U.K., then to the south, then back to Holland for another two years then back to the UK before moving to Dubai!
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Wow you truly are international!!!
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Yes…I don’t really come from anywhere…I quite like that though..;)
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Yes it is very cool!! We are living in a tiny town and my older kids are not used to it! very much farm type living which I adore!!! They eat different foods and say things in a different way and see things, of course in a unique way! It is cool!
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Wonderful! Down to earth 🙂
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yes so nice!
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This looks wonderful!
Marcey
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Thanks
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I love cauliflower…don’t know why I do not purchase and eat it more often. Thanks for the reminder. This recipe sounds like a good way to meet up with an old favorite.
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Thanks JoHanna, I never cared for it, but in the middle east vegetables are used in most dishes so I really discovered that I love cauliflower ha ha
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Looks yummy
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Thanks!
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Welcome
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THANK YOU for this excellent recipe, Lynz! My mouth is watering.
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I am so glad you like it!
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I think I would like it without the sauce.
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This looks awesome! Yum!
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Thanks:)
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The sauce sounds yummy too. I never thought of mixing yogurt with tachini
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It is delicious!
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