I really like cauliflower. I like it raw, roasted, and even went through a phase about a year ago where I was cooking faux mashed potatoes using cauliflower several times a week. I got a little cauliflowered out! That was long enough ago that I can welcome this new phase and use of cauliflower: faux fried rice. My friend brought some over for us to try, and I about died it was so good. I went out and bought the stuff to make it the next day. 
Brett is doing P90X and is on a really strict regimen for what he eats. Lots of protein, low carbs. He won’t touch the baked goods I’ve been making, which is leaving me with way too many treats around here. I can usually count on him making a pretty good dent or at least taking them to work;)
I’m trying to create variety in our meals without just eating grilled chicken and veggies every night. That is hard. And kinda boring. So this faux fried rice is a win for both of us. It tastes and looks just like the real stuff. And I love the real stuff.
:You can customize the “rice” to your taste buds and add your favorite veggies and meats. In mine, I added broccoli and carrots and some diced ham. You can add whatever you want to it though: asparagus, snap peas, peppers, and what about some bacon?
Eat up!
Faux Fried Rice
Ingredients
1 head of cauliflower
1 egg
3 tsp minced garlic
3-4 scallions, chopped
2 cups chopped broccolli
1 1/2 cups chopped carrots
1 cup diced ham (you can buy it already cubed or the really thick slices)
3 tbs extra virgin olive oil
1/3 cup lite, reduced sodium soy sauce
3 tbs sesame seed oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
Cut leaves from cauliflower by slicing through stem between head and leaves; remove and discard leaves and stem. Cut the cauliflower head in half and then in fourths. Rinse.
Using a food processor with grater attachment grate the cauliflower pieces and place grated cauliflower in a large bowl. I don’t have one so just used a regular cheese grater, just be careful not to cut yourself!
Stir in minced garlic and scallions.
Coat a large skillet or wok with extra virgin olive oil and heat to medium high heat. Cook grated cauliflower, stirring, for about 10 minutes (the cauliflower will start to get starchy and stick to the pan).
Move cauliflower to one side of the pan, clearing a place to scramble one egg. Scramble egg then stir in with the rest of the cauliflower.
Toss in the carrots, broccoli, and ham (or other veggies you use) and add soy sauce and sesame seed oil as well. Stir until well combined then reduce heat to medium, cover and let cook for another 10-15 minutes or until your veggies are tender).
**If you want to add bacon, cook the bacon first, then add the cauliflower to the bacon using the bacon grease instead of the olive oil. If you want to keep it healthy, use turkey bacon, but you will still need to add EVOO since turkey bacon doesn’t create much grease.
adapted from Mkendra Berry
This is a really creative recipe! The picture really does resemble fried rice—I was trying to figure out what was “faux” about it!
Can’t wait to try this!!!
I really need to make cauliflower more. This sounds tasty! I wanted to let you know about my cookbook giveaway that is going on right now until July 16th. Stop on by to enter! Hope you are having a great week 🙂
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Oh I’m glad Brett is eating healthy so I can get some more creative healthy recipes from you!!! THIS ONE IS AWESOME. I’ve heard of using cauliflower instead of potatoes, but never rice! Can’t wait to try it…but seems like a lot of work! Maybe I can talk Dan into making it for me…
Guuuurrrrrlll!
We made this for dinner tonight and it will be a regular weekly feature moving forward.
So good that I’m already craving it again…and I just ate it 5 hours ago!
just made this for dinner…. added mince pork and sweet chilli sauce. So delicious…who needs rice?!
I just saw this on Foodgawker! I actually made this dish a few days ago as well! I have not posted about it yet…I included some veggies and tofu and it was fabulous!
I made this tonight – it was fantastic. My dog and I ate the whole wokfull!
Surprisingly great! Any suggestions for substitutes to decrease the oil to make it even healthier???