How to Make Easy Low-Carb Cauliflower Rice
Learn How to Make Easy Low-Carb Cauliflower Rice Recipes with this simple step-by-step guide and minimal list of ingredients. Riced Cauliflower recipes are used to make sushi, cauliflower fried rice, and any dish you want to reduce carbs, calories, and more! Cauli Rice is easy to make and can be a part of your everyday meals. Ricing Cauliflower is perfect for vegan keto diets!
Looking for ways to add a little more health (and a few less calories) to each day? You’ll love this simple replacement for so many recipes
What is cauliflower rice?
Cauliflower rice is basically grated cauliflower. If you love rice, cauliflower rice is lower in calories and carbs, and offers lots of great nutrition! Also, with a riced cauliflower recipe, you’ll notice that ricing cauliflower is super easy. In fact, it’s much easier than cooking rice.
Can I buy cauliflower rice?
These days you can cauliflower rice pre-packaged in the freezer section of your grocery store. You can also find it at health food stores and places like Sprouts and Trader Joe’s.
What does cauliflower rice taste like?
Riced cauliflower tastes best when cooked. It has a slightly neutral taste similar to grain rice, but some slight undertones of flavor that has a bit of a nutty tendency. Raw cauliflower rice will have even a slight bitterness to it and more crunch.
What You Need
You can find the full printable recipe, including ingredient quantities, below. But first, here are some explanations of ingredients and steps to help you make this recipe perfect every time.
Here are the ingredients you’ll need for this recipe:
- Cauliflower
- Nutritional yeast flakes
- Rice vinegar
How to Make Cauliflower Rice
This homemade cauliflower rice recipe is easy.
It’s just another thing that makes riced cauliflower so great — it’s easy!
See? Super easy! You can substitute apple cider or even white vinegar.
How to Cook Cauliflower Rice
I love knowing how to cook riced cauliflower because now I can have it with my favorite dishes all the time!
Wondering how to make riced cauliflower? It’s pretty easy with a food processor or blender. If you don’t have either of these, then simply use some elbow grease to chop it by hand.
For this recipe, I’ll be showing you how to rice cauliflower using a food process. The first step is to prepare the vegetable by cutting off the stem and chopping the head into sections. Place cauliflower sections in the food processor with nutritional yeast flakes and rice vinegar.
You can use grated cauliflower, I just prefer the ease of using a food processor. Besides, grating cauliflower can be a little messy.
The nutritional yeast flakes adds a little flavor to the cauliflower rice.
Then you simply pulse it a few seconds at a time, until you get to the consistency you’re looking for. Be sure and take the lid off several times during this process to check on the size of your cauliflower.
You can also check for large bits that are not breaking down. I use a knife to break up any large chunks.
Next, place a skillet over medium heat, spray it with some vegetable spray and cook the rice until tender, about 5 minutes, depending on the size of your skillet. I really love the flavor of sautéed cauliflower rice!
Raw Cauliflower Rice
Cooking cauliflower rice is optional. You can skip that step entirely. Just sprinkle a little salt and pepper and you’re good.
It’s just that it develops a more mild flavor after its lightly sautéed. I like that.
Steamed Riced Cauliflower
Alternatively, you can make steamed cauliflower rice. Do this by placing it in a microwave-safe container and cooking in 1-minute increments until the desired tenderness is reached.
Steam the rice in a saucepan by bringing a pan of water to boil. Place a steamer basket over the top and steam the rice for 1 – 3 minutes, based on your preference for tenderness.
Is Ricing Cauliflower Healthy?
You will love making cauliflower rice because it’s a cruciferous vegetable and so healthy! Cruciferous vegetables are named after the four equally sized petals in the plant’s flower, basically resembling a cross. There are a lot of healthy plants in the cruciferous family, including:
- Arugula
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Collard greens
- Kale
- Watercress…and more!
Cruciferous vegetables are loaded with lots of nutrients, like Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Folic Acid, fiber and more! Another thing to note is that 100 calories from a cruciferous vegetable will provide up to 25% of your day’s fiber.
Nutritional Information
Let’s talk about the nutritional information for this veggie rice compared to grain-based rice.
Brown rice = 218 calories (3.5g of fiber + 45g carbs = 41.5g net carbs)
White rice = 205 calories (0 grams of fiber + 45g carbs = 45g net carbs)
CAULIFLOWER RICE = 27 CALORIES (2.1g fiber + 7g carbs = 4.9g net carbs)
That means this is cauliflower rice keto! Go ahead and have more vegan sushi or more Crispy Orange Tofu!
More Cauliflower Recipes
If you love this cauliflower rice, here’s even more cauliflower recipes you’ll like too:
Finally, for another veggie-based “grain”, try this Spicy Sesame Zoodles recipes!
Cauliflower Rice Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 head cauliflower stems removed, broken into florets
- 1 tablespoon nutritional yeast flakes
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
Instructions
- Combine the cauliflower florets, nutritional yeast flakes, and rice vinegar in a food processor. Pulse a few seconds at a time until it breaks into small pieces.
- Remove the lid and use a knife to break any large pieces that are not breaking apart. Pulse in multi-second increments until the entire mixture is down to the size of rice.
- Place a large skillet over medium heat and spray with vegetable spray. Add the cauliflower rice and cook for about 5-10 minutes, until the cauliflower rice is tender.
- Serve immediately in place of rice in your favorite recipes, or store in a lidded container.
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Notes
The nutrition information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator and should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
Enjoy!
Just made my first cauliflower fried rice earlier this year and now I am love. I need to try it with nutritional yeast!
Isn’t that stuff the best? I’ve been using it in my vegan sushi (recipe coming soon) and just loving it! I’m going to make some more today in fact! 🙂
I tried pizza with cauliflower but this looks even better! 🙂
I personally think this is better. Glad to see you agree!
Cool! I’ve actually never heard of cauliflower rice before… Would love to try it out! 🙂
Ooh, I hope you love it as much as I do! You can add other spices to it, like taco seasoning and serve it over a salad to make a very nice, flavorful, and low-calorie taco salad!
Oh my gosh I made cauliflower rice earlier this month and it’s amazing! Best of all my hubby who loves rices says he would have this as a substitute and begged me to make more. I LOVE what you added to it!
Your hubby is one smart dude! I am putting cauliflower rice on everything now. I keep cauliflower in the fridge because it’s so easy to make this stuff! I put it on my salads even. Yum!
Until reading this article I didn’t know that anti oxidants had blood levels
Hi Bryan. The data is amazing. Here’s a video that shows why you can’t get the antioxidants from a pill. And here’s a quick video showing the impact of the blood of vegans on cancer. The video shows that the blood from vegans “has 8X the stopping power when it comes to cancer cell growth.” Also, check out this video that talks about antioxidant levels in different fruits. Impressive stuff!
Can I use without nutritional yeast? I can’t find it in my country! ugh!
Hi Zarina. Sure, you can make this without nutritional yeast. It adds a little flavor, but it will be fine without it.
What is the ingredient in the spoon? I couldn’t find it listed in the article. Thank you 🙂
Hi Lee! It’s nutritional yeast flakes. I find adding just a little bit adds a little more “brown rice” flavor to my cauliflower rice. Hope you enjoy!
I think you should put the recipe first. That’s what I’m looking for and your blurb after. That would be nice.
Hi Shelly. Thanks for your comment. We do have a jump to recipe link at the top of every recipe for people who want to go straight to the recipe. Hope that’s helpful!
Please could you post your recipe first then your blurb? I think that would be very affective.