For a housewife who wants to please the family with a tasty and healthy dish, which takes very little time to prepare, cooking cauliflower in breadcrumbs will be a real find.
This dish as a main and side dish will be enjoyed by adults and children alike. Cauliflower in breadcrumbs can be fried in vegetable oil in a pan, and can be baked in the oven. The second method eliminates excess fat. In the oven, cooked cabbage turns crispy.
Benefit and harm
A few pieces of cauliflower can more than offset the need for vitamin C, since they contain 70% of the daily need of an adult. In addition, it contains a large amount of vitamins B 2 and K. There are vitamins A, E and N.
Like any other vegetable, cauliflower contains no less useful ingredients than all the treasures of Copper Mountain: phosphorus, calcium, potassium, manganese, iron, copper and zinc. Armed with this knowledge, Natalia will surely include cauliflower in her daily diet in order to achieve results as soon as possible and to get a stunning figure.
but cauliflower is useful not only to fitness fanatics. The properties of this useful plant improve metabolic processes in the human body, help the functioning of the adrenal glands. Eating this dish as a side dish helps in the digestion and absorption of other foods.
Recent studies of biochemists show that women in any case need to use this delicacy, because it has anti-cancer properties and is capable of preventing breast cancer. Men with the help of this vegetable can prevent many problems with the intestines and prostate gland.
That is, cauliflower is desirable to include in your daily diet to all gourmets.
However, despite the whole range of useful properties, some people should take cauliflower with extreme care. It can be allergic (if there is an allergy), ulcers (since acid in the leaves can irritate the body), hypertensive patients (especially in connection with renal diseases). Also do not eat vegetables for people with gout, thyroid disease and pancreatitis - due to increased acidity.
Step-by-step instruction
How to cook this healthy and nutritious dish? We invite you to familiarize yourself with the detailed description of the recipe for cooking cauliflower in breadcrumbs in the oven. What would a housewife need if she decided to diversify the family menu and add cauliflower to the evening dinner?
Prepare the following ingredients.:
- several heads of cauliflower;
- eggs;
- salt;
- crackers.
Then our housewife, for example, Yulia, who is waiting for her husband and two children from school, needs to go through the following sequence of actions:
- Divide the heads of cauliflower by color, size 2-3 cm.
- Wash the cabbage.
- Bring to the boil 1-1.5 liters of water.
- Put the cabbage into the water.
- Salt and re-boil water.
- Boil cabbage no more than 1-2 minutes. If boiled for too long, the cauliflower will lose its remarkable resilience, allowing it to crunch when eaten.
- Remove the cabbage from the pan.
- Smash the eggs in a separate bowl to mix.
- Cabbage dipped in eggs, then roll in breadcrumbs.
- Then put in the oven. Baked for 10 minutes until golden brown at a temperature of 200 degrees.
- It remains only to lay out the cooked dish in a shallow plate and watch how her family fun grits cauliflower with a golden crust.
We offer you to watch a video on how to cook cauliflower in breadcrumbs in the oven:
Photo of the finished dish
Here you can see a photo of cauliflower in breadcrumbs:
Different recipe variations
If you like cauliflower, the housewife can use different options for its preparation:
- With cheese and garlic - in this case, you need to stir the eggs with finely grated garlic and cheese.
- With chili - in this case, you can replace the eggs with vegetable oil, tomato paste and chili pepper. Boiled cabbage also need to dip in the cooked mixture and put in the oven.
- No eggs - adding eggs is optional. Instead, you can add sour cream, grated cheese and butter. For cooking, you need to lay the cabbage after cooking in molds, add there sour cream and cheese. Fry the crackers separately in butter, add the resulting mass to the molds. Then put in the oven for 25-30 minutes.
- Quick cooking recipe - when time is short, and a hungry family is sitting in the kitchen, impatiently knocking with spoons, you can turn on a little imagination and fry cabbage in a few moments in a frying pan.
Instead of egg mass, add butter and sprinkle crackers directly into the pan. True, Yulin's husband, Victor, being an ardent admirer of a healthy lifestyle and low-calorie food, can refuse such an option, finding it too bold.
- Roasting Sauce. Another quick recipe for cooking cauliflower is to roast the sauce separately. Flour and vegetable oil are mixed in the pan, cabbage broth, dill and garlic are added, all this is fried until boiling. In the resulting sauce dipped cauliflower, then baked in the oven for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.
Table feed options
Serve the dish can and should be with various sauces and additives. Even a little mayonnaise can pleasantly diversify cauliflower. It is also recommended to use soy sauce, ketchup, cream.
Besides, vegetables will be especially savory and fresh: lettuce, bell pepper, dill, cilantro.
Thus, cauliflower with breadcrumbs, baked in the oven, can pleasantly diversify your menu, giving the dinner a unique flavor! In addition, as mentioned above, cauliflower has a lot of useful properties and can be served, including, and people on a diet.
