Seasonal local food recipe No.377 – Felicity Cloake’s cauliflower steak

This quick and easy to prepare dish from Felicity Cloake is perfect for Veganuary‘.  Absolutely no need to buy it ready to cook and ridiculously over-packaged from a supermarket!

Serves 2

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 10-15 minutes

Ingredients
1 cauliflower
olive oil
lemon juice
chopped parsley
chilli flakes

Method
Wash the cauliflower and remove any leaves.  Cut the stem so the cauliflower sits flat on a board, then cut into chunky cross sections about 2 cm thick.  Put in a shallow dish and drizzle with olive oil and lemon juice.

Season well, then cook on a very hot griddle or frying pan for about 5 minutes on each side, or until soft and charred.  Scatter with chopped parsley and chilli flakes. Why not serve with chips? We did!

We’re avoiding single-use plastic in Camel CSA’s veg boxes

Why wait 25 years for supermarkets to get their plastic-free act together when you could be getting your weekly veg from a CSA Network UK – Community Supported Agriculture scheme like ours? We use fairtrade jute hampers for our veg boxes supplied by nearby Go Jute in St Austell.

In all our veg boxes this week:-
*baby carrots (Camel CSA)
leeks (Restharrow Farm,Trebetherick)
cauliflower  (Restharrow)
beetroot (Restharrow)
onions (Restharrow)
Jerusalem artichokes (Restharrow)
potatoes ‘Electra’ (Burlerrow Farm, St Mabyn)

Standard boxes also have:-
extra potatoes
*stir fry oriental leaves (Camel CSA)
*cavolo nero (Camel CSA)
squash ‘Crown Prince’ (Restharrow)

* = grown to organic principles. Please wash all vegetables carefully.

Try more than 350 ways of preparing vegetables on the recipes page on our website.