Cauliflower with paprika

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I watched a friend with distant Hungarian origins make this. I hope that I paid attention.

In order not to get overloaded with too many things happening at once, the friend cut up and boiled the cauliflower for 15 minutes in salted water and then set it in a dish in a warm oven to wait while the other things were done.

The other work was -->

--cut up a whole pod of garlic and chop it up
--mix it with about 3 tablespoons of lemon juice
--melt about 80g of butter in a pan and mix in about half a cup of breadcrumbs
--add the garlic mixture and cook it until it starts getting golden
--add more lemon juice to keep it looking like a sauce if it starts clumping, and then add plenty of paprika, according to how much you like it
--taste the mixture and add some salt and pepper as needed

Then all you do is put the cauliflower in a serving dish, pour the sauce on top and eat it.

[bixaorellana]

Thanks for that -- I've been looking for new ways with cauliflower. I like it steamed with anise seeds, but variety is good, and the paprika sauce sounds wonderful.

I had a gilding-the-lily idea about the above recipe:

Steam the cauliflower whole, then set it into a baking dish. Cut long slashes in it & work in slices of cheese. Set in the oven until the cheese is starting to melt, then add the sauce and let it all heat through for a few more minutes.

Would that work?

[Deleted]

Frankly, I am having difficulty imagining breadcrumbs as part of a sauce. Somebody, please try this and report back.

(Actually, I guess that fine breadcrumbs are not all that different from using flour in a sauce.)

[bazfaz]

Breadcrumbs thicken the sauce.
My difficulty is having the cauliflower cooking for 15 minutes - and then being kept warm.
But people's ideas of vegetable cooking vary. Last year I gave a Thai meal to French people (at their request) and they exclaimed over how the vegetables still had some bite after being stirfried.

[pookie]

I would be making the sauce while the cauliflower is cooking, not setting it aside.

I'm with Baz, I like my vegies with a bit of crunch.

[Deleted]

Bixaorellena, I think that one can never go wrong mixing cheese with cauliflower if that is what one wants. It is one of the most cheese friendly vegetables.

[bazfaz]

We had this sauce with cauliflower this evening and it was good. Many thanks, Fulgenzio.

[Deleted]

I wonder if that sauce would help to keep broccoli warm.

[Jazz]

This sounds delicious and I'll try it tonight. But, I will steam the cauliflower and while this is happening, I will make the sauce, but without the breadcrumbs.