Caribbean Cauliflower Ocean Cakes
Equipment
- Equipment
- Large oven tray with a wire rack.
- Large Frying pan or wok.
- Bowl for mixing batter.
- Soup Ladle and Whisk.
- Large pot
Ingredients
- Ingredients
Cauliflower Marinade
- 1 Cauliflower
- 500 ml Water
- 1 tbsp miso paste (see notes for sub)
- 1 veg stock cube
- 2 tbsp smoked sea salt (see notes for subs)
- 1 tbsp turmeric
- 2 Nori sheets.
- See Notes for subs
Batter
- 2 cups Atta Flour (plain flour or gf flour works too) see notes
- 1/4 cup cornflour
- 2 tsp Baking Powder
- 1 tbsp sea salt
- 1/2 tsp fresh or ground turmeric
- 1 cup Innocent Coconut Milk
- 1/2 cup soup water
- 2 bunches scallions chopped
- 2 tbsp fresh thyme (or 1/4 tsp dried thyme)
- 1 tbsp white vinegar
- 1 tbsp West Indian Hot Sauce or
- 1/4 scotch bonnet pepper chopped
- (See notes for hot sauce that works
- Well with this recipe).
- 1 cup oil for frying.
Instructions
Cauliflower Bath
- Add 500 ml water to a large pot. Add the miso, smoked sea salt, veg stock cube, turmeric and nori sheets. Bring to the boil. Then switch off. Next Place the whole head of cauliflower in the pot and allow to absorb the flavours of the ocean bath for about 30 minutes until tender.
- While your cauliflower is lounging in its ocean bath. Switch on the oven to about 180 C.
- And prepare your ingredients for the batter.
Batter
- In a bowl, sift in the flour, cornflour, baking powder, salt and thyme. (Note don't sub baking powder with baking soda, it doesn't work for this recipe)
- Next, whisk in your coconut milk, add hot sauce, thyme, turmeric, vinegar and scallions.
- Leave batter to one side and check on the cauliflower. It should be slight tender, not soft.
- Remove it from the ocean bath. And slice it up in about 1/4 cm pieces. Don’t worry if some of the cauliflower flakes or chunks away. You need a few chunks for a bit of bite when frying.
- Add the prepped cauliflower to the batter. And give it a good stir.
- In a large frying pan, add about a cup of oil, maybe a bit more, you need it to be at least a 1/2 inch high for frying. Ensure your oil is hot, to test its ready, add a small piece of bread, if it sizzles straight away, the oil is ready.
- Half fill a soup ladle with the cauliflower batter and pour into the hot oil, repeat this x 4 until you have four cauliflower cakes sizzling in the pan.
- Have a bowl next to the pan lined with kitchen roll. As the patties are done, transfer them onto the kitchen roll. Add four more to the pan.
- Lift the cakes off the kitchen roll, place them onto the wire rack and pop into the oven. Repeat this process until all your batter is finished.
- This recipe is lovely served with chips, salad, or wrapped in some lettuce leaves with a drizzle of mayo!
Notes
Notes.
Atta flour can be replace with whole wheat flour or plain flour.
You can use any type of seaweed for this recipe, nori is just the easiest to find.
Any hot sauce with habanero or scotch bonnie peppers works. Most of these can be found in your local supermarket Miso and Sea Salt subs. Add an extra stock cube instead of miso. You can use Regular sea salt instead of smoked sea salt. And if you have liquid smoke add in a couple of teaspoons (this is not essential though. Ordinary sea salt works just as well.)
You can use any type of seaweed for this recipe, nori is just the easiest to find.
Any hot sauce with habanero or scotch bonnie peppers works. Most of these can be found in your local supermarket Miso and Sea Salt subs. Add an extra stock cube instead of miso. You can use Regular sea salt instead of smoked sea salt. And if you have liquid smoke add in a couple of teaspoons (this is not essential though. Ordinary sea salt works just as well.)
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