For the final day of this week’s blogging marathon, I made this crispy and absolutely addictive baked buffalo style cauliflower with blue cheese dip. This is another dish that I had in NYC botanical garden. I really loved how spicy and yummy it was. My recipe is a low calorie version in that this one is baked while the one I had at the restaurant was deep fried.I have never had anything ‘buffalo style’ before and when I saw this on the menu, I just had to give it a try. There’s a very popular dish called buffalo wings here in the US that has nothing to do with the animal buffalo. This dish was invented in Buffalo, NY – hence the name. These are made with chicken and are coated in a butter and vinegar-based hot pepper sauce.In the recent past, vegan and vegetarian buffalo style plant based dishes are slowly becoming popular. Soy or quorn based meat substitutes or vegetables like cauliflower or jackfruit are used instead of real meat.To make the crispy cauliflower, the florets are dipped in chickpea flour batter and then baked until slightly tender. They are then tossed with the buffalo sauce and baked until completely cooked through and crispy on the outside. These baked cauliflower are so addictive, I ended up ’taste-testing’ more than half of the batch 🙂 Blue cheese dip is a common accompaniment to buffalo wings. Since I wanted to replicate what I ate at the restaurant, I made the dip too. This sour cream-mayo-blue cheese dip is creamy and addictive too. So make sure to make it for the cauliflower wings. Make these for your next party and I’m sure these will be a big hit with your guests. Lets check out what my fellow marathoners have cooked today for BM# 82.
