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Malabari Cauliflower Bake

Baked vegetables are an occasional GO TO in our house, we like to bake vegetables and eat them for the obvious healthier reasons. Cauliflower is one of the veggies we often bake, we also enjoy the bites of tandoori Gobi at times.
I developed this recipe while wanting to do something new with cauliflower. So the idea is simple – Make a coastal Indian gravy, grill the veggies and then bake them together.
The execution is the key to this dish, but to my surprise it is way tastier than it sounds. You don’t believe me, try for yourself ..!!!

Let me know if you like it. You can also refer to the video in youtube.

Cuisine - Indian
Keywords- Cauliflower, Bake, Baked veggies, Vegan, Vegetarian, Spicy, Tasty, Recipe, Cooking
Prep Time – 10 Mins.
Cook Time – 43 Mins. (Can be reduced if you make the veggies and the sauce simultaneously)
Bake time – 20 Mins

Ingredients:
1 medium sized cauliflower cut into medium pieces.
Oil
Salt to taste
1 Onion cut into thin slices.
4 garlic pods, mashed using a knife.
1 inch ginger – grated.
2 Chili sliced straight.
4-5 curry leaves.
1.5 Tomatoes diced into small pieces.
1 Cup Coconut Milk
½ Teaspoon of Garam Masala (All Spice)
2 Teaspoons of Coriander Powder
1 Teaspoon of Kashmiri chili powder.
Some freshly chopped cilantro.

Toppings (Optional) -
Handful of snow peas.
Handful of colored bell peppers cut into thin long slices.
A small piece of Purple cabbage chopped thin.

Ground Spices –
6 Cloves.
4 Cardamom.
1 Red chili (Dry)
1 Cinnamon stick.

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RECIPE:

Cauliflowers -
1. Spray some Oil in a Grill Pan.
2. Place the cauliflowers in the pan, make sure they don’t overlap on top of each other. They need to be touching the surface of the Pan.
3. Place the Pan in the stove and start to sauté them, keep rotating them using a tong in medium heat.
4. Continue doing this until the cauliflowers look brown and charred. The time would totally depend on the quantity and the size of the Pan.

Snow Peas for Toppings (Optional) –
1. Spray some oil in the same Pan.
2. Throw some snow peas in the pan and roast them in very limited amount of oil for 5 mins until they start showing some charred layer on them.
3. Keep them aside.

Sauce -
1. Take a flat bottom pan and spray some oil into it.
2. Add the ground spices in the pan and sauté for a minute.
3. Add the onion into the pan and keep sautéing until they turn golden brown in color. This should take like 4-5 minutes.
4. Add ginger, chili and garlic into the pan now and saute for 3 more minutes.
5. Add some curry leaves into this mix now.
6. Add the Chili and Coriander powder and saute the mix for 3 more minutes.
7. Add the tomatoes into the Pan . Saute for 5 more minutes and let the tomatoes cook.
8. Now add the ingredients from the Pan into a blending jar and blend them into a thick paste.
9. Add the paste back into the same Pan.
10. Pour a cup of coconut milk into it , mix and sauté them together in low heat until they becomes consistent across the pan.
11. Add some salt to taste and Sprinke ½ Spoons of Garam masala (All spice) on top of the sauce.
12. The sauce is ready now.


Additional veggies for Toppings (Optional) –
1. Take the same pan used to make the sauce and while the baking is in Progress, throw some bell peppers into the pan.
2. Roast them in limited oil for 2 minutes.
3. Add some cabbage into the mix and keep sautéing for 5 more minutes.
4. Your toppings are ready now, keep them side.

Baked Cauliflower –
1. Spread the peas unfirmly over the cauliflower.
2. Pour the sauce on top of the veggies , check the video for more clarity on it.
3. Please use a spoon to uniformly coat the sauce on top of the cauliflower.
4. Set the bake to 350 degrees and preheat the Oven.
5. Place the grill pan into the Oven and bake for 20 minutes.
6. Take the dish out , throw the toppings on top of the baked veggies . This provides beautiful colors to the dish.
7. Throw some freshly chopped cilantro on top.
8. The dish is ready now, serve it hot with Naan or Pita bread. It can also be served on its own as an appetizer.

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Please try it yourself and let me know in the comments below. Do not forget to follow our youtube channel for more interesting recipes.

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