Oven Roasted Cauliflower Recipe {Tahini Yogurt Sauce}

This simple Oven Roasted Cauliflower recipe with Tahini Yogurt Sauce is a delicious, easy side for quick weeknight dinner. It works lovely paired with chicken, fish or even in a vegetarian rice bowl!

Hey guys!  We are already thisclose to the weekend again. Can I get a woot woot?

Growing up, the most common way we’d enjoy veggies was usually boiled or steamed (for the record, boiled veggies are particularly popular in Newfoundland…hello jigg’s dinner).  Have you ever heard of jigg’s dinner?  It’s a traditional Newfoundland meal consisting of salt beef and a whole whack of boiled veg – potatoes, carrot, turnip, cabbage, parsnip with pea’s puddin’.  The meat and veg are cooked together and the salty beef flavours the veg.  Though, I’m not a regular jigg’s dinner cooker, I do enjoy it when my mother or grandmother prepares every so often. These days, it’s more roasted veggies like this oven roasted cauliflower recipe.

What Does Cauliflower Taste Like? Is Cauliflower Healthy?

Cauliflower is pretty neutral in flavour and comes in a variety of colours, like orange, purple and green. White, however, is the most commonly found form of cauliflower. Like most veggies, when roasted it takes on a little more flavour and those crispy, caramelly bits are my absolute fave!

Cauliflower is low in carbs, calories and fat and has lots of vitamin c, as well as other vitamins. It can be eaten raw, roasted (like this healthy cauliflower recipe), boiled or steamed.

These days, cauliflower is even used for pizza crusts, meatless wings and as a rice substitute.  It’s particularly popular among those who are enjoying a low carb diet.

How to Roasted Cauliflower in Oven

• Cut cauliflower into florets.  This is a great how-to guide.
• Place florets in a bowl and toss with oil, salt and pepper.
• Spread florets on a baking sheet and place in a preheated oven.
• After 15 minutes, carefully turn cauliflower and cook another 10 minutes.
• Carefully remove from oven, enjoy as is or with a delicious tahini yogurt sauce.

How to Make Tahini Yogurt Sauce for this Healthy Cauliflower Recipe

While the cauliflower is roasting, get on with the tahini yogurt sauce. It’s creamy, dreamy and simple to whiz up. Let out your inner artist and drizzle that sauce over the veg. For this tahini yogurt sauce you just need –

• Greek yogurt
• Tahini
• Maple Syrup
• Stock
• Garlic
• Salt & pepper

Combine all ingredients and drizzle over the oven roasted cauliflower! Easy, right? Leftover sauce works wonderfully as a dressing for a green salad too!

Tips for Oven Roasted Cauliflower Recipe

• Cut the florets into roughly equal pieces so they cook evenly.
• If you want a little more (or less) bite to the cauliflower, reduce (or increase) bake time accordingly. The time for this recipe worked perfectly for us, though.
• Don’t have pomegranate? No worries! They do add a lovely pop of colour and sweetness, but are not completely necessary.

Enjoy this Simple Cauliflower Recipe? You May Enjoy These Too

• Creamy Roasted Cauliflower Leek Soup with Cheddar
• Chickpea Cauliflower Curry

Have an awesome weekend!

~Dawn

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Oven Roasted Cauliflower Recipe {Tahini Yogurt Sauce}

This simple Oven Roasted Cauliflower recipe with Tahini Yogurt Sauce is a delicious, easy side for quick weeknight dinner. It works lovely paired with chicken, fish or even in a vegetarian rice bowl!

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American, Canadian

Keyword baked cauliflower in oven, oven roasted cauliflower, tahini yogurt sauce

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 25 minutes

Total Time 35 minutes

Servings 4 side servings

Calories 118kcal

Author Dawn Coombs

Ingredients

Oven Roasted Cauliflower

• 5 cups cauliflower -cut into florets (roughly half a head)
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/4 tsp salt

Tahini Yogurt Sauce

• 1/3 cup greek yogurt
• 1 tbsp tahini
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tbsp vegetable stock or water -or more, depending on desired consistency of sauce
• 1 clove garlic -finely minced
• pinch salt
• pinch black pepper

Garnish

• 2-3 tbsp pomegranate arils

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 450F. Toss cauliflower with oil, salt and pepper. Place on sheet pan and roast 15 minutes. Carefully remove, turn florets over, and roast an additional 10 minutes.
• While cauliflower is roasting, make tahini yogurt sauce. Mix all ingredients together in a small bowl, whisking to combine. Drizzle over roasted cauliflower and sprinkle with pomegranate. Enjoy!

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Nutrition

Calories: 118kcal | Carbohydrates: 13g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 6g | Sodium: 193mg | Potassium: 469mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 7g | Vitamin C: 65.5mg | Calcium: 59mg | Iron: 0.7mg