Cauliflower with Romesco sauce

Ingredients:

• 3 red Romano peppers
• 50g almonds
• 130g roasted buckwheat grain
• 1 cauliflower
• olive oil

• 10g red onion
• 10g garlic (about 2 cloves)
• 25g olive oil
• 25g red wine vinegar
• 1 teaspoon Chipotle chilli powder (or a mix of smoked paprika and Kashmiri chilli powder)
• 0.25 teaspoon salt

Methods:

• Preheat the oven to 200C.
• Cut red peppers in half (or into 3 or 4 flat sides if using bell peppers). Place them near the top of the oven, turn on the broiler and bake until the skins turn black.
• Toast the almonds in the oven on a separate tray.
• Start boiling the buckwheat in cold water.
• Cut the cauliflower into large florets. Then cut each floret in half to maximize the flat surface area.
• Lightly cover the bottom of a large frying pan with olive oil and arrange the cauliflower cut side down. Fry on high heat until they turn golden brown on one side. Flip them, loosely cover with a lid (allowing steam to escape) and turn off the heat. Let them steam until tender.
• Once the red pepper skin looks black, remove the peppers from the oven, place them in a bowl and cover with a plate/lid to steam their skins off.
• In a bowl place roughly chopped red onion, almonds, garlic, olive oil, vinegar, chilli/paprika powder and salt.
• Remove most of the skins from the red peppers. It should be super easy, apart from the fact that they are a bit too warm to touch.
• Add about 200g of roasted red peppers into the bowl with other sauce ingredients. Handblender everything into a sauce.
• Serve the sauce topped with cauliflower, and buckwheat on the side.

Inspired by: Helen Rennie