Buffalo Cauliflower Bites

If thing has buffalo condiment connected it – I’m a fan! These buffalo cauliflower bites are a healthier, vegetarian-friendly appetizer that conscionable mightiness triumph implicit adjacent the astir skeptical nutrient eaters oregon fans of buffalo wings during shot season. 

There’s nary denying that buffalo chickenhearted wings volition ever beryllium a classical ace vessel oregon crippled time nutrient for shot Sunday. However, if you’re looking for thing a small healthier oregon privation an enactment that is vegetarian-friendly – marque these casual buffalo cauliflower bites!

They are amazingly casual to marque too. Once you’ve tackled cutting up the cauliflower into wound sized pieces, it’s conscionable a substance of coating them successful batter and baking. If you don’t privation to lukewarm up the location with the oven on, you tin easy marque these successful the aerial fryer arsenic good – we included the directions for that successful the post.  

Ingredients for Buffalo Cauliflower Bites

Use these elemental and caller ingredients packed with nutritional worth to marque this yummy buffalo cauliflower wings look – a large crippled time broadside dish.

• Cauliflower: the neutral spirit and chewy texture of cauliflower makes it a large veggie enactment for these bites. Unlike chickenhearted wings, these cauliflower wings are a bully root of fiber, nutrients (like vitamin C and potassium), and don’t person immoderate cholesterol. 
• All Purpose Flour: to make a crispy coating for the cauliflower, you’ll marque a elemental batter from flour, seasonings, and water. 
• Seasoning (garlic powder, bulb powder): for other flavor, I similar to adhd immoderate ail and bulb pulverization to the batter. Smoked paprika is besides delicious. 
• Hot Sauce: Frank’s buffalo condiment is the classical enactment for buffalo condiment flavored recipes similar this one. 
• Butter: this healthier mentation of buffalo cauliflower has a batch little butter. Traditionally, it’s a 2 parts condiment to 1 portion food ratio. We reduced the food to conscionable 1 tablespoonful – inactive delicious but with little full fat. 

Variations

Make it gluten free: usage a gluten escaped 1-to-1 each intent flour alternatively of the regular flour successful the batter. 

Make it vegan and dairy free: usage vegan food successful the buffalo sauce. 

Swap the sauce: you tin easy swap retired the buffalo condiment successful this look for different favourite condiment similar BBQ, teriyaki, oregon chromatic mustard.

How to Make Oven Baked Buffalo Cauliflower Bites

These buffalo cauliflower wings are elemental to enactment unneurotic successful a fewer steps.

Prep the Cauliflower: Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Line a ample baking expanse with parchment paper. Wash and chopped cauliflower into wound sized pieces.

Make the Breading: In a ample mixing bowl, adhd the water, flour, ail and bulb powder, and salt. Whisk until good combined. Add the bite-size cauliflower florets to the batter successful the bowl, and flip to overgarment the cauliflower successful batter. Remove the pieces of cauliflower, 1 by 1 with a fork. Make definite to shingle disconnected immoderate excess batter. 

Bake: Arrange the cauliflower pieces connected a parchment lined baking expanse successful a azygous layer; making definite pieces aren’t touching connected the pan. Spray the tops with oil, this volition assistance them get ace crispy. Bake for 20 minutes. Flip them implicit and cook for 15 much minutes, until aureate and crispy.

Coat successful Hot Sauce & Serve: While the cauliflower is baking, hole the blistery sauce/butter mixture. Melt the food successful a saucepan connected the stove implicit mean heat. Once melted, adhd the blistery condiment and stir. Set aside. Toss the roasted cauliflower florets with the condiment successful a ample bowl, past instrumentality to the pan. You tin service them immediately, oregon to marque them crispier, enactment them backmost successful the oven for 15-20 minutes.

Tools You’ll Need

• Chef’s knife
• Baking sheet
• Small saucepan
• Large mixing bowl

Can you marque this successful the aerial fryer?

Yes! I emotion making this buffalo cauliflower look successful the air fryer too. Preheat your aerial fryer to 375 degrees Fahrenheit past aerial fry the battered cauliflower pieces (arranged successful a azygous furniture successful the basket) for 10 minutes oregon until crispy and aureate brown. Toss successful the buffalo condiment and serve. They get other crispy successful the aerial fryer!

What to service with buffalo cauliflower bites?

Serve your buffalo cauliflower wings the aforesaid mode you bash a crippled time snack similar chickenhearted wings – with celery sticks, carrot sticks, and a creamy dipping condiment similar ranch dressing oregon bluish food dressing.

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Buffalo Cauliflower Bites Recipe

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Total Time 55 minutes minutes

Servings 4

Calories 150kcal

Ingredients

• 1 head of cauliflower
• ¾ cup water
• ¾ cup all intent flour
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup Frank’s reddish blistery sauce
• 1 tablespoon butter

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F. Line a ample baking expanse with parchment paper. Wash and chopped cauliflower into wound sized pieces.
• In a ample mixing bowl, adhd the water, flour, ail and bulb powder, and salt. Whisk until good combined. Add the cauliflower to the batter successful the bowl, and flip to overgarment the cauliflower successful batter. Remove the pieces of cauliflower, 1 by 1 with a fork. Make definite to shingle disconnected immoderate excess batter.
• Arrange the cauliflower pieces connected a parchment lined baking expanse successful a azygous layer; making definite pieces aren’t touching connected the pan. Spray the tops with cooking spray, this volition assistance them get ace crispy. Bake for 20 minutes. Flip them implicit and cook for 15 much minutes, until aureate and crispy.
• While the cauliflower is baking, hole the blistery sauce/butter mixture. Melt the food successful a saucepan connected the stove implicit mean heat. Then adhd the blistery condiment to the melted food and stir. Set aside.
• Toss the florets with the condiment successful a ample bowl, past instrumentality to the pan. You tin service them immediately, oregon to marque them crispier, enactment them backmost successful the oven for 15-20 minutes.
• Store immoderate leftover cauliflower buffalo bites successful an airtight instrumentality successful the fridge for up to 2-3 days. Reheat successful the oven, toasted oven, oregon an aerial fryer to get them crispy again.