It's all in the game: Cauliflower rice

Here is an amazing recipe; I am along with a few others on the wildfood web site trying to lose a bit of weight. Lee the web owner and site Guru is also on a diet. He told us about this rice substitute, it is cauliflower, yes you read it correctly cauliflower, it originally came from "Fat Secrets" the programme that he is following, and so here is how I made it:

You will require 1 cauliflower head and that’s it in its purist sense, now Lee thought it would be even better bulked up with some pre-cooked rice. This made me think “Bulgar”, so I made up some Bulgar with Marigold vegetable stock and soy sauce.

Remove the florets’ from the stalks(don’t throw them away) and pulse them in the kitchen machine, I have a smallish Moulinette, so had to do it in two batches, do not over blitz, it should look like small grains of rice, transfer to a microwave bowl and cover with cling film.

Chop the cauliflower stems quite small.

For the stir fry you will require:

The chopped cauliflower stems

2 spring onions sliced

2 pointy paprika diced (1 red and 1 yellow, but this was just for aesthetics)

100g of pre-cooked chicken strips (you could make your own, but I bought these)

2cm of ginger grated

A thumb nail size piece of shrimp paste

Pinch of chilli shrimp powder

Some anchovy sauce (about a tsp.)

Soy sauce

Fish sauce

Oyster sauce

1 table spoon of wok oil

Here we go, this is quick, oil in wok, in goes the cauli stalks, stir fry over a high heat until just starting to colour, then grate in the ginger, then the rest of the veg.

At this point, put the bowl with the Cauliflower rice, into the microwave and cook at highest setting for 3 minutes.

When it goes ping, take it out of the microwave, give it a stir and then cling film back on and into the pinging machine for another minute.

Add the chicken strips, as these are already cooked they just need heating through.

Add the shrimp paste, shrimp chilli powder, and all of the sauces to the stir fry, keep it moving.

Remove cling film, stir in the Bulgar wheat (any liquid not absorbed pour into the stir fry). That is it, no more, no less, plate up your rice and spoon your stir fry over the top.