Name: Cauliflower Rice Recipe
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 10 min
Ingredients: 1 lg cauliflower (cut into lg chunks); 2 TB extra virgin olive oil; salt and pepper to taste

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This tasty low-carb side dish will knock your socks off with how yummy it is! Cauliflower rice will be your new go-to healthy side dish!

Once you’ve made this rice, you can and should try other cauliflower recipes like Cauliflower Casserole, Mashed Cauliflower, and Buffalo Cauliflower.

A rice alternative

You might be thinking, what is cauliflower rice? It’s a light and fluffy alternative to regular white rice. Plus it’s packed with nutrients and vitamins.

Healthy? Check! Delicious? Check! Easy to make? Yes! If this is your first time making it yourself, this is the perfect recipe to start with.

If you’ve never tried it, you definitely should! You will not miss the white rice, I promise. This veggie rice might even become your new favorite side dish recipe. It tastes delish as an alternative in recipes like in our Cauliflower Fried Rice.

Cauliflower rice is one of those foods that you can pretty much eat an unlimited amount. It’s that healthy for you! It’s great for all of those paleo, low-cal, gluten-free lifestyles out there!

A Few Ingredients

Just a few ingredients are needed to make this easy cauliflower rice:

cauliflower
olive oil
salt & pepper

In just 10 minutes you can make this cauliflower rice to go on the side with so many dinner dishes.

Blending up cauliflower for cauliflower rice.

How to Make Cauliflower Rice

BLEND. Cut your cauliflower into large chunks and put them into a food processor (you can use a blender, but we think the food processor works better). Pulse the cauliflower until it’s broken down into rice-sized pieces. You’re over halfway done.
COOK. Heat a skillet over medium heat. Pour a couple tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil into the skillet and heat it up. Throw in the cauliflower rice, salt, and pepper and stir it around a bit. Cover the skillet and cook the rice until it’s heated through. This will only take about 3 to 5 minutes. Remove the lid and fluff the rice with a fork.
- To roast: just spread onto a foil-lined baking sheet, drizzle with oil, salt and pepper and back for 20 minutes at 425.
- To freeze: add it to a freezer bag and lay it flat in the freezer. And then to reheat, we add it to a pot and cook until heated through. You may need to add a little extra oil if needed. You can also microwave the rice.

How to Use Cauliflower Rice

In any recipe that you use rice, you can almost always use riced cauliflower. We love to use it in soups and especially love to enjoy it as a side dish to many of our chicken recipes. In fact, here are some of our favorite dishes we serve over this riced cauliflower:

Use in a soup. Instead of using regular white or instant rice, just use cauliflower rice for a more healthy, but still hearty and flavorful addition.

Use to make pizza crust! It’s really yummy. You can even do a version of mashed ‘potatoes’ with it. Possibilities are endless!

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