Cauliflower Salad with Avocado Dressing
1/4 head cauliflower
1/2 carrot, grated or chopped
1/4 cucumber, grated or chopped
1 avocado
1/2 tomato, chopped
1 teaspoon lime juice, optional
1. In a food processor, chop cauliflower until it becomes the consistency of rice. Add cauliflower to a bowl, then add carrot and cucumber.
2. Scoop out the meat of the avocado into the bowl, and mash the avocado into the salad to create the dressing, or mash avocado in a separate bowl, and squeeze lime juice into the bowl and whisk.
3. Throw tomato into the salad, and add lime juice (if you haven't already). Toss together avocado dressing and salad.
Considering I only had 1 avocado to use for the dressing, I wanted to use smaller proportions of carrot, cauliflower, and cucumber. If you prefer to make a bigger salad, and want to use a whole cucumber, tomato, carrot, and cauliflower, then you'll need 2-3 avocados.
When I processed the cauliflower into the consistency of rice, I started to miss stir fry and rice, so you could opt out the avocado and cucumber, and add broccoli, squash, zucchini, peas, and/or red onion.
Source of recipe: I wrote this recipe.
SO HOW'D IT GO?
I just threw the cauliflower, cucumber, and carrot into a food processor together. Mashed up the avocado, added lime juice, added the veggie mix, and stir. Delicious! So simple, and so many possibilities for extra additions
This was good and light tasting, although a little bland. It needs a little something to add a bit of zip in my opinion. To be fair though I did not add lime juice, but only had lemons so used fresh-squeezed lemon juice in place of the lime juice. Not sure if that would have changed it that much as normally the two are fairly interchangeable in many recipes... I also added about 6-7 radishes to try to zip it up a bit, some sea salt, and a sprinkle of fresh ground black pepper. It's decent and hearty, while still feeling somewhat light feeling (due to being raw, not cooked, so not as heavy) but it still needs something more... Maybe some fresh garlic.... cilantro... ginger??