Cauli Rice/Cauli Mash

[ianbilly]

I've been really strong & strict with my LCHF diet since being diagnosed but i'm struggling with Cauli Mash/Cauli Rice. I love cauliflower as a veg but i just can't think of anything nice to say. Also found i'm allergic to celeriac so thats out. Would Sweet Potato & Turnip mash be a decent substitute as long as i have a decent portion size? Advice gratefully accepted

ps i bought some cauli rice and the smell put me off straight away, it smelt like tea and old school dinner cabbage to me!!!

 

[DeusXM]

Cauliflower definitely can have an aroma that...well, let's not beat about the bush, it smell like farts, doesn't it?

The good news is the smell goes away if you fry it. I've had my own cauliflower disasters though, I tried making Thai fried rice with it using fish sauce but managed to simultaneously misjudge how much sauce to use and fail to fry the rice long enough. The end result was a mush that smelled (and indeed, tasted) of a trawlerman who's eaten too many beans, which went straight in the bin. It then proceeded to haunt my kitchen overnight after I was too lazy to take the bin out.

Happily though, sweet potato makes a perfectly serviceable mash that's lower in carbs than regular potato, although to me, mashing it does make it seem to taste very sweet.

 

[trophywench]

If you start off with really FRESH cauli - then it's always fine. If it's a bit elderly, well ...... yeah LOL It grates up perfectly easily on a normal cheese grater if you don't happen to have a handy food processor LOL - and anyway - graters are a damn site easier to wash up than food processors ! For mash you don't have to have it that small before you cook it - just hack however much you want of it and stick it on to boil, then mash when it's cooked exactly as you would with spuds. Mash it roughly at first - and water will no doubt come out so just lb the lid back on the saucepan and drain it again, resume mashing ....

I tried sweet potato for the first time ever last year - and hated it, so it's defo not in my repertoire!

Celeriac is OK, but you need a sharp knife and plenty of strength to prepare it when it's raw! Apparently, so I'm told, it peels and cuts far easier when it's nice and fresh, from which I can only conclude that none of the supermarkets round the Midlands, have it really fresh .....

 

[Ditto]

I luv it mashed up with single cream. I have to desist from buying it because I pigged out last time! 😱 I ate a tub a day. Could hardly move.

 

[DeusXM]

If you start off with really FRESH cauli - then it's always fine. If it's a bit elderly, well ...... yeah

Mine was a week past the best before date....

 

[Lindarose]

I bought a packet of cauliflower rice and couldn't stand the smell. Couldn't even try it. Definitely not for me. But I love cauliflower and rice! Think it's the pre packed quick stuff that put me off.

 

[Vicsetter]

I would have thought that cooking a couple of florets of cauli and mashing it with butter would suit your diet and always tastes nice (as long as the cauli is not too old).

 

[DeusXM]

True, cauli mash is a lot harder to screw up than cauli rice. You can just boil up cheap frozen florets and then give them a good squishing in a sieve. Works really well if you add butter, cheese and pepper. Lardons also work well...

 

[Radders]

Happily though, sweet potato makes a perfectly serviceable mash that's lower in carbs than regular potato.

In my "carb bible" raw sweet potato has 21.3g per 100g
Raw new potatoes have 17.2
King Edwards have 16.8

I know sweet potato is supposedly lower GI but it doesn't appear to be lower carb?

 

[Radders]

True, cauli mash is a lot harder to screw up than cauli rice. You can just boil up cheap frozen florets and then give them a good squishing in a sieve. Works really well if you add butter, cheese and pepper. Lardons also work well...

We're having veggie cottage pie tomorrow for tea. I shall be having cauli mash on mine. My favourite dish. Yum.

 

[grovesy]

I bake or roast sweet potato I am ok with it. I don't do not tried cauli mash or rice. Ordinary mash potato does raise my blood sugar though.

 

[Manda1]

Tried cauli rice and hated it still each to their own ... Lol

 

[Robin]

In my "carb bible" raw sweet potato has 21.3g per 100g
Raw new potatoes have 17.2
King Edwards have 16.8

I know sweet potato is supposedly lower GI but it doesn't appear to be lower carb?

It must be something to do with it being more fibrous or something. I had baked sweet potato the other night, and was 6.8 at the two hour mark, I know I'd have been in double figures with a regular baked potato.

 

[Radders]

It must be something to do with it being more fibrous or something. I had baked sweet potato the other night, and was 6.8 at the two hour mark, I know I'd have been in double figures with a regular baked potato.

That's interesting- I think GI is a very individual thing though. As has been said so many times, porridge is a perfect example of a food which seems to be low gi for some and not for others. It seems that for me, fibre has very little effect on the speed with which I metabolise carbs whereas fat has a large effect.

 

[Mark Parrott]

Turnips, despite being a root veg, are reasonably low carb. I've used them as mash with great success. I tend to like mixing my veg when making mash. I use cauli, turnip, squash & small amount of sweet potato. Also add cream, wholegrain mustard & cheese.