Recipes

Spiced beef-stuffed cauliflower

Yet another way with this versatile vegetable, making it a superb Succot centrepiece

October 18, 2024 07:00
Fabienne stuffed cauliflower landscape .jpeg
Photo: Inbal Bar-Oz

Cook: 20 - 30 minutes

Method:

  • Mix the meat, chopped onion, chopped parsley or coriander and the egg. Season with the spices plus a heaped tsp each of salt and pepper. Mix everything – preferably with your hands.
  • Wash the cauliflower, put it in a large pot and cover with water. Boil until tender but not too soft or it will collapse when you try to stuff it — about 20 minutes. Drain and leave to cool.
  • Heat your oven to 200°C and stuff the cauliflower by pulling a couple of florets apart slightly without breaking them off and pushing a little bit of meat in the gap between them. Continue until you have used up all the meat. The meat will hold the cauliflower together as it cooks.
  • If you prefer, you could put the meat into a large piping bag with a wide nozzle and use that. 
  • Drizzle the outside generously with the olive oil and roast at 200°C for 20-30 minutes until golden 
  • To make the parev tahini yoghurt sauce: mix the dairy-free unsweetened yoghurt with as much of the tahina as you prefer and season to taste. 
  • Serve sprinkled with chopped herbs or pomegranate seeds and pistachio slivers. 

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Recipe first published in the October 01 2020

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Ingredients

450g minced beef 

1 medium onion, finely chopped

25g flat-leaf parsley or coriander

1 egg, beaten

Salt and pepper

½ tsp each of ground cumin, sweet paprika, turmeric and ground coriander

One large cauliflower

6-8 tbsp olive oil 

200ml plain dairy-free unsweetened yoghurt  

3-4 tbsp tahina

To serve: more chopped herbs or pomegranate seeds and pistachios