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  4. 16 Creative Cauliflower Recipes The Whole Family Will Love

16 Creative Cauliflower Recipes The Whole Family Will Love

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By Southern Living Editors Updated January 22, 2020
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Skillet Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
Credit: Antonis Achilleos

The cauliflower craze is sweeping the South, and we're totally on board. Although the fluffy white vegetable is often compared to broccoli, cauliflower stands out with its delicate taste, soft texture, and versatility. An excellent absorber of herbs, oil, and spices, this fibrous vegetable is a fresh, nutrient-rich alternative to many starch ingredients. If you're crazy for cauliflower, then it's time to get crafty. There are so many different ways this veggie can be incorporated into your daily dishes. Swap out potato chips with roasted cauliflower, or pair roasted chicken with steamed cauliflower. Whether you prefer to steam or sauté, you'll never tire of the different ways to dress up this veggie. Try riced cauliflower for an easy side dish that is lower in carbs. Not sure where to start? Take a look at our favorite cauliflower recipes, and you'll be cooking with cauliflower in no time.

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Skillet Cauliflower Mac and Cheese

Skillet Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
Credit: Antonis Achilleos

Recipe: Skillet Cauliflower Mac and Cheese

Get your daily dose of veggies, by mixing in cauliflower to this skillet mac and cheese.

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Creamy Cauliflower Soup

Creamy Cauliflower Soup
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Recipe: Creamy Cauliflower Soup

This easy soup comes together in under an hour, making it a comforting dish for an easy weeknight meal.

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Skirt Steak and Cauliflower Rice with Red Pepper Sauce

Skirt Steak and Cauliflower Rice with Red Pepper Sauce
Credit: Greg DuPree; Prop Styling: Mindi Shapiro Levine; Food Styling: Torie Cox

Recipe: Skirt Steak and Cauliflower Rice with Red Pepper Sauce

Cauliflower rice is a great low-carb option and pairs nicely with this skirt steak.

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Cheese Sauce over Cauliflower

Cheese Sauce over Cauliflower
Credit: Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling: Christine Keely; Food Styling; Tina Bell Stamos

Recipe: Cheese Sauce over Cauliflower

Kids will hop on the vegetable train with this loaded cheesy cauliflower dish.

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Sweet-and-Spicy Sheet Pan Chicken with Cauliflower and Carrots

Sweet-and-Spicy Sheet Pan Chicken with Cauliflower and Carrots
Credit: Victor Protasio; Prop Styling: Kay E. Clarke; Food Styling: Torie Cox

Recipe: Sweet-and-Spicy Sheet Pan Chicken with Cauliflower and Carrots

This roasted cauliflower absorbs the sweet and spicy flavor from this one pan dish.

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Chubba Bubba's Broccoli Salad

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Recipe: Chubba Bubba's Broccoli Salad

This easy version of broccoli salad features frozen broccoli plus cauliflower and chopped carrot for added color and crispness.

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Easy Cauliflower Casserole

Easy Cauliflower Casserole
Credit: Victor Protasio; Prop Styling: Heather Chadduck; Food Styling: Chelsea Zimmer

Recipe: Easy Cauliflower Casserole

This casserole will trick all the baked mac-n-cheese lovers in your house. It swaps out pasta for veggies and relies on pantry staples like panko and cream of chicken soup.

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Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes

Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes
Credit: Photography: Alison Miksch, Prop Styling: Sarah Elizabeth Cleveland, Food Styling: Melissa Gray

Recipe: Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes

Riced cauliflower is added to this beloved mashed potatoes recipe for an extra creamy side dish.

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Cauliflower Wings

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Recipe: Cauliflower Wings

This vegetarian version of buffalo wings will please everyone at your next party. Coated in batter and punchy homemade sauce, you may even trick some guests into thinking they are the real thing.

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Salmon with Pineapple-Pepper Salsa and Coconut Cauliflower Rice

Salmon with Pineapple-Pepper Salsa and Coconut Cauliflower Rice
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Recipe: Salmon with Pineapple-Pepper Salsa and Coconut Cauliflower Rice

Adding coconut milk to the cauliflower rice in this recipe offers slightly sweet flavor to the side.

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Turnip Green Salad
Credit: Hector Manuel Sanchez; Prop Styling: Buffy Hargett Miller; Food Styling: Katelyn Hardwick

Recipe: Turnip Green Salad Recipe

The vegetable medley makes this dish burst with fresh flavor. The addition of cauliflower makes it filling enough for a meal.

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Roasted Cauliflower with Seed Salsa

Ashleigh Shanti's Roasted Cauliflower with Seed Salsa
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Recipe: Roasted Cauliflower with Seed Salsa

Sunflower, sesame, mustard, cumin, and coriander seeds and a de arbol chile make the seed salsa that tops this buttery cauliflower.

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Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Bacon

Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Bacon
Credit: Antonis Achilleos; Prop Styling; Heather Chadduck Hillegas; Food Styling: Emily Nabors Hall

Recipe: Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Bacon

Substitute a potato for the usual cream that gives this soup its body. Replace butter with olive oil to make it completely dairy-free.

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Loaded Cauliflower Casserole

Loaded Cauliflower Casserole
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Recipe: Loaded Cauliflower Casserole

This dish is the veggie equivalent of a loaded baked potato, but in casserole form.

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Roasted Cauliflower

Roasted Cauliflower
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Recipe: Roasted Cauliflower

Keep your side dish simple and tasty with this roasted cauliflower.

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Sweet Potato, Cauliflower, and Greens Casserole

Sweet Potato, Cauliflower, and Greens Casserole
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Recipe: Sweet Potato, Cauliflower, and Greens Casserole

As a hefty vegetarian main course or as a side, this cauliflower dish delivers big flavor and meaty texture. 

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    1 of 16 Skillet Cauliflower Mac and Cheese
    2 of 16 Creamy Cauliflower Soup
    3 of 16 Skirt Steak and Cauliflower Rice with Red Pepper Sauce
    4 of 16 Cheese Sauce over Cauliflower
    5 of 16 Sweet-and-Spicy Sheet Pan Chicken with Cauliflower and Carrots
    6 of 16 Chubba Bubba's Broccoli Salad
    7 of 16 Easy Cauliflower Casserole
    8 of 16 Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes
    9 of 16 Cauliflower Wings
    10 of 16 Salmon with Pineapple-Pepper Salsa and Coconut Cauliflower Rice
    11 of 16 Turnip Green Salad Recipe
    12 of 16 Roasted Cauliflower with Seed Salsa
    13 of 16 Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Bacon
    14 of 16 Loaded Cauliflower Casserole
    15 of 16 Roasted Cauliflower
    16 of 16 Sweet Potato, Cauliflower, and Greens Casserole

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