Spiced cauliflower steaks
These spiced cauliflower steaks can be serve as a main dish in a vegan diet or as a side dish to go with sausages, baked fish, grilled meat etc. It’s really delicious, filling, healthy – and so easy to make. You can add other spices too, such as ground cumin, coriander, turmeric etc.
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Remove the leaves of the cauliflower. Cut each cauliflower into 3 or 4 thick steaks of 2cm thickness. Keep any leftover to make cauliflower rice or curry etc.
- Mix the olive oil with the paprika, garlic powder and cayenne (optional). Season with salt & pepper. Brush both sides of the cauliflower steaks with the spiced oil then place them on a baking try. Brush the leaves with any remaining oil (or spray these with some oil) and scatter them around the steaks.
- Bake in the oven for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, slice the grilled pepper and halve the tomatoes.
- Take the tray out of the oven and scatter the pepper slices, tomatoes and olives around them. Toss the cauliflower leaves. Bake for another 10-15 minutes, until the cauliflower is tender and golden.
- Scatter the chopped herbs on top, and serve warm with crusty bread, rice or couscous.