Recipe: Delicious Cauliflower Bites 🥘 with Sticky Sweet Tamari Sauce

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Cauliflower Bites 🥘 with Sticky Sweet Tamari Sauce. Sticky Sesame Cauliflower Bites - Sweet, spicy, baked cauliflower bites topped with an amazing Asian-inspired sticky sauce! Serve them as finger food appetizers or as the main course over rice for a delicious veggie dinner. When you need some sticky sweet tangy delicious sauced something, cauliflower fits right in.

While the cauliflower is baking, make the sauce.

In a small saucepan combine the tamari, maple syrup, sesame oil, rice vinegar, tomato paste, chili paste, garlic, ginger, and sesame seeds.

Bring the sauce to a boil on the stove over medium heat.

You can cook Cauliflower Bites 🥘 with Sticky Sweet Tamari Sauce using 30 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Cauliflower Bites 🥘 with Sticky Sweet Tamari Sauce

It’s 1 of large Cauliflower cut into bit sizes.
Prepare 3 of eggs, whisked.
Prepare as needed of High heat tolerance oil (solid coconut).
Prepare 1/2 tbsp of sesame seeds.
Prepare 1-2 of green onions, fine chopped.
It’s of Coating Mix.
It’s 1/2 c of - coconut flour.
It’s 1/2 c of - sorghum flour.
You need 1/2 tsp of salt.
It’s 1 tbsp of potato starch.
It’s 1 tbsp of monk fruit.
It’s of Sauce Mix:.
You need 1 c of water.
Prepare 3 tbsp of Tamari sauce.
Prepare 2 tbsp of apple cider vinegar.
You need 1/2 tsp of liquid coconut oil.
It’s 3-4 tbsp of brown sugar (depending on sweetness preference).
It’s of Slurry: 1 1/2 tsp potato starch mixed with 4 tbsp of water.
You need of Substitutes.
It’s of Brown sugar: Honey, Maple syrup. Your preference on sweetness.
It’s of Monk fruit: Stevia or other sugar alternative.
It’s of Coating mix: use your favorite flour mixes.
It’s of Tamari sauce: coconut aminos or other soya sauce alternative.
Prepare of Apple cider vinegar: balsamic vinegar.
Prepare of Potato starch: tapioca starch.
Prepare of Variations.
You need of Sweet heat sauce, use chillies to spice up sauce.
It’s of Enhance the garlic in the sauce.
You need of Shake of lime sprinkles on top of sauce bites.
You need of Eliminate sauce, shake on your favorite seasoning or store sauce.

Return the pan to stove and reduce the heat to medium.

Bring the sauce to a simmer, stirring constantly.

Add the cooked cauliflower to the sauce and stir gently to coat.

Transfer the cauliflower with sauce to a serving dish.

Cauliflower Bites 🥘 with Sticky Sweet Tamari Sauce instructions

In a medium saucepan add solid coconut oil over medium heat, let melt until there is enough to cover 1 layer of bites in the bottom of pot.
Cut up cauliflower head into bite sized pieces Put in large bowl Beat eggs, pour over bites and mix well.
Turn up heat on oil to 3/4 (a bit over medium).
Mix all dry/coating ingredients together in separate bow and sprinkle half over bites, mix and sprinkle remaining coating mix over bites, mix well..
Add 1-2 pieces to test heat of oil, should be bubbling. Cook 1-2 minutes, test firmness. (Adjust temp as needed).
Have another bowl lined with paper towels ready..
Use a smaller hand strainer that fits inside pot to scoop out cooked pieces, put in bowl with paper towels.
Using metal tongs, gently place a single layer of prepared bites into oil, it will bubble up but should not boil over, otherwise your pot may be too small..
Set timer for 2 minutes, test 1 piece, set for another minute to desired firmness. With a full layer, I cooked for 3 minutes..
At end of time, use metal hand strainer to scoop out pieces into paper towel lined bowl..
Add aprox 1 tbsp of solid coconut oil, wait for it to melt and heat. Repeat cooking steps with a single layer each time. Set timer for consistent firmness of all batches. Adding more oil between each batch. Note, increased bubbling will happen as residue batter mix stays in oil..
Keep watch of pot to prevent boil over, remove from heat and move away from burner if bubbles grow too rapidly..
While batches are cooking, start sauce in small saucepan. Over medium heat, melt coconut oil, add all wet ingredients (Except Slurry) and bring to boil over medium heat. Then add 1 tbsp at a time, brown sugar, stir between adds. Let simmer while working on batches of bites. (Optional: add dash of garlic salt).
While bites cooking, dice up fresh green onion, set aside..
When final batch of bites are done and in bowl with paper towels, let cool. Next, add slurry mix to sauce and stir continuously until blended and sauce thickens. Turn burner off..
Remove paper towels from bowl. Spoon sauce over bites and gently mix. When desired amount of sauce is achieved, bites will be well coated. (Variance due to size of cauliflower head, so add sauce spoonful at a time) Sprinkle half of sesame seeds and diced green onions over bites and mix gently. Sprinkle the rest of seeds and mix. Put all into a fresh serving bowl and sprinkle the remaining onions on top..

Top with the green onions and sesame seeds.

To make sauce: while the cauliflower is cooking, prepare the sauce.

Pour oil to a medium frying pan over medium-high heat.

Over the years, I've tried only a few more versions, and I've made them my own way.