Baked Vegan Cauliflower Tots and More Amazing Cauliflower Recipe Transformations (2024)

Baked Cauliflower Tots (Vegan)

Grown-ups have a little secret—they love tater-tots as much as kids do!

Here’s a wonderfully tasty recipe reminiscent of your childhood memories (or possibly yesterday, depending on your most recent tater-tot experience) using the magical cauliflower and your oven, instead of potatoes and a frying pan full of oil. “Ricing” the cauliflower is the how we get there! Read on…

Baked Vegan Cauliflower Tots

–Ellen Francis, Vegan American Princess

Ingredients

1 large cauliflower (equal to 4 cups of riced cauliflower)
1 cup water
1/2 medium minced onion
2 Tablespoon minced garlic
1 Tablespoon ground flaxseed and 3 Tablespoon water
2 Tablespoon fresh or dried chopped parsley
2 1/2 cup nutritional yeast, “nooch”
1/2 teaspoon of dried basil
salt and pepper
cooking spray

Directions

1. Break the cauliflower into florets and in small batches put into a food processor. Pulse until the consistency of rice. But don’t over process! Set aside.
2. Make the egg replacer by mixing the ground flaxseed and water in a small bowl until it is the consistency of oatmeal. This will bind the tots together. Add small amounts of water if it seems too thick. Place int he refrigerator.
3. In a large sauté pan, heat the cup of water on high.
4. Add the cauliflower to to sauté pan.
5. Mince the onion in the food processor and add to the cauliflower. Mix well so that the onion is evenly distributed.
6. Add the minced garlic to the mixture and stir in.
7. Stir frequently and continue to cook until the moisture is evaporated. It should be about 10 minutes.
8. Add the parsley, basil, the nutritional yeast, a dash of salt and pepper to taste. Stir together.
9. Remove the mixture from the stove and put into a large bowl.
10. Take the flaxseed mixture from the refrigerator and stir into the mixture evenly.
11. Let the mixture cool a bit so that it’s not too hot to handle–about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F and place the a cookie sheet in the oven to heat up along with the oven.
12. After about 5 minutes, pull out the cookie sheet and place on a surface that can withstand the heat, and spray with cooking spray.
13. With a tablespoon or soup spoon, scoop out a spoonful from the mixture and roll into a ball and place on the cookie sheet. The balls should sat together nicely. Line them up close together on the cookie sheet.
14. Bake for about 30 minutes. They should be golden and firm.
15 Serve with ketchup, mustard, hot sauce to vegan sour cream.

We have the utmost admiration for the cauliflower at Vegan American Princess because it’s amazing how versatile they can be. If you’re one of those unenlightened people that think cauliflower is boring, then think again. You’re about to be schooled!