Winter Is Coming For The Real Meal Revolution

Winter is coming! The House of Stark may not have faired so well in Game Of Thrones, so I hope your eating plan fairs better come your first winter as part of the Real Meal Revolution. South Africa is blessed with good weather, so most of us would have started "the Tim Noakes diet" in the summer, making for a rich experience of meat and salad, with lots of variety as we exploit the low carb high fat eating plan.

Salad in the winter is definitely "not so sexy", so enter our beloved cauliflower. Cauliflower has become so topical, that Bronwyn Nortje managed to even have an article published in Business Day, my source of business information,  and not gastronomic points of view.

To quote her , "For the past several months I have been bombarded with a seemingly endless stream of photographs and tweets of cauliflower mash, cauliflower pizza bases, cauliflower rice, cauliflower you name it. I think I even saw a cauliflower taco the other day."

Since I promised a friend of mine I would let her know how to make cauli-rice, I thought why not share it with more people. Cauliflower is topical, makes for organic SEO for my blog and the Sunday I was making this stew (in picture), I attracted an audience by sharing the lamb pot on Instagram. So Xandra,  it is really as simple as this to have shades of white on your plate that is not starch.

If you have a food processor,  you blitz the cauliflower to get it fine. You want to be left with bits, so this is not about shredding it almost leaving you with a mushy liquid form. To give you context of the fineness you want, if you did not have a food processor, you could grate your cauliflower. That will give you the consistency we are looking for.

Next, you get your deep frying pan and add 100g of butter. Finely chop half an onion and add to the melted butter. Sauté the onions and add your grated cauli-rice and stir. Keep stirring on a low to medium heat, getting the butter into your cauliflower and it should be ready in about five minutes. That my friend is as simple as it is to make cauli-rice.

As for the rest of you banters, with winter here, and less grill and braai and more stew, this is the perfect accompaniment that will leave you not so lus for rice. Isn't that fantastic?