Cauliflower with Romesco sauce
Ingredients:
- 3 red bell pepper
- 50g almonds
- roasted buckwheat grain
- 1 cauliflower
- olive oil
- 10g red onion
- 1 garlic clove (about 10g)
- 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 each bell pepper into 3 or 4 flat sides, depending on their shapes. Place them near the top of the oven, turn on the broiler and bake until the skins turn inedibly black.
- Toast the almonds in the oven on a separate tray.
- Start boiling the buckwheat.
- 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 bell pepper skin looks inedibly 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 and garlic, olive oil, vinegar, chilli/paprika powder and salt.
- Remove most of the skins from the bell peppers. It should be super easy, apart from the fact that they are a bit too warm to touch.
- Add about 200g of roasted bell 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