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Buffalo Cauliflower Bites With Blue Cheese Sauce

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Buffalo Cauliflower Bites With Blue Cheese Sauce

The typical basket of buffalo wings in a restaurant has an incredible amount of calories — and that’s before you drown them in creamy blue cheese sauce.

But these vegetarian Buffalo Cauliflower Bites will have even the most ardent meat-lovers craving more!

We smothered baked cauliflower florets in a much healthier version of buffalo sauce that has the same tangy, spicy flavor and paired it with a two-ingredient blue cheese sauce.

Grab a plateful of these Buffalo Cauliflower Bites before everyone else eats them up!

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Buffalo Cauliflower Bites With Blue Cheese Sauce

These vegetarian cauliflower bites smothered in a healthier Buffalo sauce will have even the most ardent meat-lovers craving more.

Course Side Dish
Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 35 mins
Total Time 55 mins
Servings 6 approx. ¾ cup cauliflower and 3 Tbsp. sauce each
Calories 72 kcal
Author BODi

Ingredients

  • ½ cup low-fat (1%) plain yogurt
  • 2 Tbsp. crumbled blue cheese
  • Nonstick cooking spray
  • 6 cups cauliflower florets
  • ½ tsp sea salt, (or Himalayan salt), divided use
  • ½ cup hot pepper sauce
  • ⅓ cup rice vinegar
  • 1 Tbsp. cornstarch, gluten-free (preferably GMO free)
  • 2 tsp. ground chili powder
  • ¼ tsp. ground smoked paprika
  • ½ tsp. garlic powder
  • ½ tsp. onion powder
  • 1 tsp. pure maple syrup
  • 1 tsp. olive oil

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
  2. Combine yogurt and cheese in a small bowl; mix well. Refrigerate until needed.
  3. Lightly coat large baking sheet with spray.
  4. Place cauliflower florets on baking sheet. Coat cauliflower lightly with spray. Season evenly with ¼ tsp. salt.
  5. Bake for 20 minutes, or until tender-crisp.
  6. While cauliflower is baking, combine hot sauce, rice vinegar, and cornstarch in medium saucepan; whisk until cornstarch is dissolved.
  7. Add chili powder, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, maple syrup, oil, and remaining ¼ tsp. salt; whisk to blend.
  8. Heat hot sauce mixture over medium-high heat; cook, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes, or until thickened. Set aside.
  9. Pour hot sauce mixture over baked cauliflower (on baking sheet); mix well.
  10. Return cauliflower to oven. Bake for 5 minutes.
  11. Serve hot with sauce.

Recipe Notes

The Nutrition Facts box below provides estimated nutritional information for this recipe.

Container Equivalents
1 Green
1 tsp.

2B Mindset Plate It!
A great veggie as part of lunch or dinner. Also makes a great snack(tional).

*Note on equivalents: Per serving, the amount of yogurt and cheese found in this recipe is not enough to count toward a day’s Red or Blue allowance. As such, these ingredients (and calories) have been calculated into the tsp. equivalent.

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