I was never a huge fan of cauliflower until I read Lukas Volger’s cookbook, Bowl. I didn’t dislike it, but I didn’t look for it at the market. Lukas’ book was the first time I had seen a recipe using cauliflower “couscous.” It made me think of the vegetable in a whole new way, and consequently I’m always on the lookout for new ways to try it. One of my favorite cookbook authors, Anjum Anand, has a recipe for Tandoori Cauliflower in her most recent cookbook, I Love India, which isall about Indian street food. The preparation for Anjum’s tandoori cauliflower is quick and easy, and the cooking is hands-off. It’s a beautiful dish for entertaining, or even during the week. If you would like an alternative to tomatoes and sour cream atop your cauliflower, Anjum notes that you can skip those and simply serve it with a more traditional mint chutney, if you prefer. —Kristina
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Why Anjum loves this recipe: I have always enjoyed cauliflower cooked in every way imaginable, even grated, spiced and stuffed into breads. In recent years, in the West, cauliflower is finally receiving some much-deserved love after a decade of neglect. In India, it never went out of fashion and tandoori cauliflower is a restaurant staple. Tandoori dishes refer to foods baked in a coal-fuelled, super-hot, barrel-shaped clay oven which was traditionally used to bake breads, then meats and now vegetables. These ingredients are marinated in delicious spiced marinades and it is these flavors which now define tandoori food in the absence of a tandoor, which few of us have at home. This way of preparing cauliflower is such a super easy dish to make, I cook it really often!
About Anjum: Anjum Anand is an award-winning cookbook author and television show host, based in London. She has written seven cookbooks on Indian food, and hosted two of her own shows, Anjum’s Spice Stories and Indian Food Made Easy. In 2011, she launched her own food line, The Spice Tailor, which includes cooking sauces, chutneys, and naans. You can find more of Anjum’s recipes on her own website, and connect with her on Twitter .
{Cover and recipe photographs by Martin Poole}
I Love India by Anjum Anand
Street vendor photograph by Issy Croker
Tandoori Cauliflower photograph by Martin Poole
from Design*Sponge http://www.designsponge.com/2017/09/in-the-kitchen-with-anjum-anands-tandoori-cauliflower.html
from Home Improvment http://notelocreesnitu.tumblr.com/post/165620343134
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