Dinner · 35 min · Amounts not specified
Sheet-pan cauliflower tacos fixings
Roast until charred. Sauce at the table.
The sheet · 4 plates · 35 min
easyWhy tonight. Roast until charred. Sauce at the table.
What it needs
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- cauliflower
- chickpeas
- cumin
- olive oil
- lime
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: yogurt.
Method
- Dry the chickpeas hard or they steam instead of blistering. A towel and two minutes.
- Cauliflower cut with flat faces so it touches the tray. Round florets sit on one point and never color.
- Cumin and oil, 220C, and left alone until there are properly dark edges. Pale cauliflower is a wasted tray.
- Yogurt thinned with lime as the sauce, spooned under rather than over so nothing goes soft.
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Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- cauliflower
- Bland when boiled, excellent when browned.
- chickpeas
- Nutty and sturdy, and they take on whatever they are cooked in rather than adding much of their own.
- cumin
- Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open.
- olive oil
- Two ingredients sharing a name.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
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