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Cauliflower Sauce

cauliflower sauceA simple old world cauliflower sauce for your pasta. This is one of those recipes that doesn’t sound as good as it is and it’s soooooo gooood.

You will need:

  • 1 head of cauliflower florets quartered
  • 6 cloves of garlic sliced
  • A nice pinch or two of crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
  • A nice pinch of salt
  • 1 onion sliced kinda thick
  • 1 cup of chicken stock
  • 1 cup of pasta water
  • 1 pound of pasta I use a thick spaghetti
  • 1/4 cup pecorino Romano cheese

Directions:

  1. Get a large pot of salted water going for your pasta.
  2. In a large skillet 13″ is perfect add the olive oil, garlic, onion and red pepper flakes.
  3. Put the heat on medium and once it’s hot allow this to sauté for 2 minutes then add the cauliflower. You want to let this sauté for a few minutes to get some color on the cauliflower figure 5 minutes.
  4. Now add the salt and the chicken stock and once this starts to boil lower the heat to a simmer and cover. Your want this to cook on a low heat for the 8 minutes your pasta is cooking.
  5. Cook your pasta to 2 minutes under the recommended time and reserve one cup of the pasta water strain and add the pasta to the cauliflower sauce.
  6. Add the cup of pasta water and finish cooking the pasta for the two minutes while turning the pasta into the sauce.
  7. Once done turn off the heat and sprinkle the Romano cheese in and fold it all together.
  8. Serve with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and some grated cheese.

–  Daniel Mancini

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