Cauliflower Recipes

Cauliflower: The Healthy Head

Cauliflower is a ground plant that grows a vegetable head, similar to cabbage. It has long been one of a dieter's best friends, due to its negligible amount of calories and its plentiful supply of important vitamins. Cauliflower, and similar vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli and kale, may even help prevent the development of certain cancers.

Best of all, if you spice your cauliflower recipes with turmeric, you may not only prevent cancers, but impede the growth of existing ones! [Health benefits of cauliflower.] And as luck would have it, turmeric goes just great with cauliflower.

Eat It Because It Tastes Good Too!

But don't let cauliflower's health benefits blind you to its great taste and versatility.

• Raw cauliflower can adorn a salad or crudite tray.
• Try stir-frying until crispy-tender in Asian recipes.
• If your plate really needs a 'white vegetable' to take up the space usually reserved for a potato, try a cauliflower au gratin recipe. Or, try it mashed with garlic.

But What About... You Know?

As wonderful as cauliflower undoubtedly is for your health and your tastebuds, it is in a category of foods that may have an unfortunate effect on your intestines - the social problem of 'flatulence'. (And it is a social and not a medical problem, most of the time.)

If you love the 'gassy' vegetables but have problems with their effects (and not everyone suffers equally in this regard), you might look into dietary supplements that break down carbohydrates before they can form the gases that are so embarrassing. Beano is the trade name of the most well-known of these.