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By Sarah Finnan
09th Jan 2024
09th Jan 2024
Giving Veganuary a whirl? Graham Higgins of The Purty Kitchen shares one of his favourite plant-based meals for you to try for dinner tonight; cauliflower steak.
Cauliflower steak
Serves 2
Ingredients
- 1 large cauliflower (500g plus)
- 200g harissa spiced hummus
- 150g organic puy lentils
- 35g pumpkin seeds
- 35g toasted almond shavings
- 50g quinoa
- Small bag of frisse
- Small bag of watercress
- 1 teaspoon icing sugar
- 50ml lemon juice
- 250ml olive oil
- Coarse sea salt
Method
- Bring a pot of salt water to the boil
- Take your head of cauliflower and cut it down the centre to make 2 cauliflower steaks. Blanch the cauliflower heads for 8 minutes and strain.
- While the Cauliflower is in the pot add your lemon juice, olive oil, icing sugar and a pinch of sea salt to a bottle or jug and shake or stir vigorously until well mixed. Set to one side. This mix will last 5 days if kept sealed in the fridge, so it won’t go to waste.
- Now heat a griddle or frying pan with a little olive oil to a high heat. Carefully take the cauliflower heads out and place them into the preheated griddle/pan and sear until golden brown on both sides. Keep a close eye, this won’t take long and we don’t want them to burn.
- Deep fry the quinoa for 1 minute, carefully remove and place on a clean J-cloth and allow to strain thoroughly.
- While the cauliflowers are browning, add your frisee and watercress to a bowl, and drizzle with 35-50ml of your lemon juice and olive oil mix. Toss the leaves to coat them in the oil.
- Remove your cauliflower and leave to rest for 1 minute. Use this time to heat your Puy lentils in the microwave for 30 seconds
- Plating
- Spoon the hummus onto the centre of the plate and using the back of the spoon, spread out into a circle just slightly bigger than the size of the cauliflower steak.
- Place the cauliflower in the centre of the hummus.
- Put the Puy lentils on top of the cauliflower and then add the nuts, seeds and crispy quinoa.
- Finally, top with your dressed watercress and frisee.
- Enjoy!