How to make a Pickled Cauliflower Salad : that you can make an eat an minutes. It also stores well so you can have Pickled cauliflower as a great healthy side to any meal. This Salad is spicy, vinegary and crunch making you want more pickled cauliflower. Bonus you can add any vegetables to the cauliflower and have a in season pickled salad.
Spicy Cauliflower Salad
- 2 cups vinegar
- 2 cups of water
- 2 tbls of sugar
- 1bulb of garlic (5- 6 cloves) Peeled
- 2 bay leafs
- 1 tbls red hot pepper flakes
- 2 tbls of salt
- 1 head of Cauliflower
- 2 celery stalks
- 2 carrots
- 1 bell pepper (any color , green, red, or yellow)
- Put all the wet ingredients (vinegar, water. sugar), ½ the red pepper flakes, Bay leaves, and garlic peeled
- Bring water /vinegar/ sugar /garlic to a boil
- Add the Cauliflower, celery, and carrots, 1 bell pepper
- Bring winger/ water to a boil again reduce heat and cook for 10 min (till cauliflower is tender to a fork)
- Remove from heat and allow cauliflower salad to cool 5-10 minutes
- Drain liquid reserve the cauliflower liquid for future use or store the Pickled cauliflower in .
- Put the salad in a bowl sprinkle with remain hot red pepper flakes and sprinkle with salt and add ½ cup of liquid chill in fridge for 1 hour. Pickled Cauliflower saladI did buy a great storage container form Ikea for the cauliflower salads to keep in my fridge.
Tip; Use remaining liquid add 1 cup of water 1 could of garlic and add green beans bring to boil and store green beans in the liquid for a spicy green bean treat. Pickled green beans.
If you would like an easy print out version of this recipe. click here Cauliflower Salad
check out my other salad posts: Pickled Squash
Have a great day !