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Recipe: Roasted Cauliflower with Bacon and Garlic

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Recipe: Roasted Cauliflower with Bacon and Garlic

It's funny but some of my best recipes come about from desperation and attempts to clean out my fridge of leftover ingredients.  This recipe is one of those.  

I had a head of cauliflower that needed to be eaten and a couple of slices of bacon that also needed to be eaten, so I thought why not try them together? If it tastes awful I can throw out the experiment without feeling bad.

However, it turned out to be a really nice side dish and would be perfect at Thanksgiving or Christmas.  You are allowed and even encouraged to make fattening vegetable dishes when it is a holiday!  

 

4 Slices of bacon

1 TBls bacon grease

1 bulb of garlic-remove the cloves

1 head of cauliflower cut up into bite size pieces

 

Saute the bacon until crisp and then blot on a paper towel and crumble.  Reserve a tablespoon of the bacon grease to toss with the cauliflower and garlic.

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees

Cut up the cauliflower, and peel the garlic, toss with the bacon grease and bacon bits in a oven proof pan, season with black pepper.

Bake for about 25 to 30 minutes, stir occasionally, serve when the cauliflower is soft and browned.

Roasted Cauliflower

 

 

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Comments (26)

Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Lizette, Southern cooking inspired me

Oct 06, 2010 04:46 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Susan, thank you and I agree bacon grease adds such great flavor

Oct 06, 2010 04:46 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Rosalinda, bacon and bacon grease extra yummy

Oct 06, 2010 04:47 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Chris, tell her it was a real easy to make

Oct 06, 2010 04:48 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Maurice, LOL, food is what keeps me willing to get out of the bed in the morning!

Oct 06, 2010 04:49 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Chris A, this is not too weird for you?

Oct 06, 2010 04:49 PM
Gayla Worrell
Windermere Real Estate/Everett, Inc. - Everett, WA
Real Estate Webworks

Bacon makes everything good, even icky cooked cauliflower!  :)

Oct 06, 2010 04:52 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Gayla, I find that most veggies that I hated when I was little; cauliflower and Brussels Sprouts the two biggest are really good if you don't boil them.  They get really bitter when they are boiled but are extremely tasty when baked.  Give it a try!

Oct 06, 2010 04:57 PM
John Pusa
Glendale, CA

Carla - Excellent information and tips on roasted cauliflower with bacon and garlic. Thank you for sharing a very good blog.

Oct 06, 2010 05:57 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@John, thank you for your kind words

Oct 06, 2010 06:01 PM
Ed Kurosz , Lic. Assoc. RE Broker
Douglas Elliman Real Estate - Westhampton Beach & Quogue - Westhampton Beach, NY
Douglas Elliman Real Estate Hamptons & North Fork

My signature fall dish is a very yummy, yet rich, autumn veggie / squash cassarole:

Spaghetti squash (cooked and forked out into a baking dish), topped with boiled/roasted cauliflower (either), pour a jar of garlic alfredo sauce over it all and sprinkled with italian bread crumbs. Bake for 45 minutes. Refridgerate overnight after it cools. Bake another 45 the next day before serving. It is Soooooooo good! It must sit overnight and be rabaked otherwise the consistency of the squash will be wrong. Give it a try if you dare.

Oct 06, 2010 06:32 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Ed, I love spaghetti squash but have never paired it with cauliflower, I will give that a try.  I will have to pass on the Alfredo sauce as I am allergic to cow's milk.  But I am going to try the squash and cauliflower together, thanks for sharing

Oct 06, 2010 06:39 PM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Carla, that looks really good, thx for sharing this recipe!    I am using up the tomatoes and chiles out of the garden now, before we get snow!

Oct 07, 2010 03:29 AM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Joan, sounds like you need to make some salsa!  I made a wonderful meat sauce with fresh tomatoes from our garden that I will share soon

Oct 07, 2010 04:37 AM
Matt Grohe
RE/MAX Concepts - Des Moines, IA
Serving the metro since 2003

So many things are better with bacon. I'd be using it more if my wife wasn't a vegetarian. If I cook with bacon I get to eat it all, goes straight to my midsection!

Oct 07, 2010 04:47 PM
Pamela Cendejas
Second Self Virtual Assistance - Kingman, AZ
Second Self Virtual Assistance (928) 692-3235

Hi Carla - You can't miss when you're using bacon!  Thanks for the recipe.

Oct 08, 2010 07:44 AM
Jim Frimmer
HomeSmart Realty West - San Diego, CA
Realtor & CDPE, Mission Valley specialist

I'm not the cook in our family, so I don't have to worry about recipes, as long as it tastes good going down!

Oct 09, 2010 08:36 AM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Matt, there is some "fakon" out there made of tofu you could try no bacon grease though

Oct 09, 2010 06:12 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Pamela, I agree bacon is good in about just everything

Oct 09, 2010 06:13 PM
Carla Dimond
CATARRA - Mountain View, CA
(Silicon Valley)

@Jim, never under estimate how important a good eater is to a cook, if they won't try it is not fun to make it!

Oct 09, 2010 06:13 PM