This simple side of Oven Roasted Cauliflower 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?! For this quickie Thursday, I thought I’d bring you a simple, clean eating recipe today considering that I’m trying to increase my veggie intake after the indulgent month of December. Who’s with me?
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, most of the veggies I eat are roasted. I love all the little caramelly bits. It’s my favourite part! Lucky for me, hubby loves veg too so we go through a lot in our home. Usually a couple of days a week, we have a ‘bowl’ dinner where we have something like chicken with quinoa and roasted veg all together in a bowl. This oven roasted cauliflower fits perfectly with the whole ‘bowl’ dinner!
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. Leftover sauce works wonderfully as a dressing for a green salad too!
Hope you enjoy this oven roasted cauliflower recipe! Tell me, what’s your fave veg and how do you like to prepare it?
Have an awesome weekend!
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XO
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Oven Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini Yogurt Sauce
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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I love roasted vegetables and cauliflower is one of my favourites. Your recipe sounds so tasty and perfect to add a mid-week vegetable dish, topped with that delicious tahini yogurt sauce!
Thanks so much, Emily! Cauliflower is a fave in our home too 🙂
Yum, roasted cauliflower is amazing and topping with Tahio Yogurt Sauce and enjoy! This is so delicious!
Thanks Eileen 🙂 It really is tasty!
What a wonderful winter side dish! The sauce looks so good, a great addition to the cauliflower.
Thanks so much, Sharon 🙂
This looks amazing and the great recipe for the gut cleanse I am doing. I would need to sub the greek yoghurt as we cannot have dairy. Do you think coconut yoghurt would work instead?
I bet that would work just perfectly! Hope you love it 🙂 Thanks Vanessa!
I love tahini. LOVE tahini. We put it on/in everything from appetizers to meat marinades to all our desserts. This is so up my alley – can’t wait to slather it on cauliflower now, too!
Woo hoo! Thanks Julie 🙂
Yum, I love cauliflower!! This is my kind of recipe, looks so easy, healthy and yummy! Pinning to try this week!
Love it too! Thanks Sam – enjoy 🙂
Love cauliflower! And as Italians, we like to roast our veggies, so this is just perfect. Full of flavor and incredibly healthy.
Same here – so yummy! Thanks Nicoletta 🙂
I’ve never heard of a jigg’s dinner before. Definitely sounds like something I would enjoy! I love a large helping of vegetables especially if it includes roasted veggies like your tasty looking cauliflower. Thanks for sharing!
It’s a classic Newfoundland dish and so yummy! I bet you would 😉 Thanks Shannon!
I can always use another cauliflower recipe and I think this one is just the ticket! Sounds delicious!!
Yay! Thanks Renee 🙂
Ok, I see Tahini everywhere lately and I’ve never had it! This Tahini Yogurt sauce looks so good on the roasted cauliflower though! Just might have to give it a try!
Yes! So yummy! Hope you love it, Anna 🙂
Oh, Dawn! I’m so excited about this recipe! I absolutely adore roasted cauliflower, and the unique tahini-yogurt sauce here sounds phenomenal! Plus the sweet-tart little flavor bursts from the pretty pomegranate arils! Brilliant! Bonus – it’s so darn easy, too – perfect easy on busy weeknights! Yay!
Yay! So happy to hear that, Shelley 🙂 It’s a favourite for sure!
Roasting cauliflower is my favourite way to prepare it. Love all the flavours in this sauce! It sounds like a topper for roasted cauliflower!
Love it too! Thanks Courtney 🙂
Yes yes yes! Roasted cauliflower is THE BEST. I have a head in my produce drawer and now I know what to do with it. Thank you!
So yummy, right?? Thanks Lauren – enjoy 🙂
Oven roasted cauliflower is the BEST. Love the sweetness it produces, along with a little savoury char as well. This looks like the perfect side dish, or fun appetizer with that sauce.
It is! Those little brown, crispy bits are my fave 🙂
It looks delicious! When it comes to oven roasted veggies, Im a sucker for butternut squash with a little bit of balsamic vinegar to help caramelise. So yum!
Thanks Sylvie! Yum! Gotta love butternut squash too 🙂
I LOVE roasted cauliflower! My sister and I are obsessed with roasting it after rubbing it in harissa at the moment. We are eating so much we’re worried we willget bored of it but this Tahini yoghurt dressing sounds incredible and like it could mix up things a little for us. I can’t wait to give it a go! Thanks so much 😀
Yum! Harissa sounds awesome with it! Hope you enjoy this one. Thanks Kay 🙂
I love roasted vegetables, especially broccoli and brussels sprouts. This looks delicious!! I can eat the whole sheet pan in one sitting. I never heard of jigg’s dinner, but it sounds really good!
Love those too!! I did eat this whole pan of cauliflower for lunch, lol. It was too good 😉 Thanks Thao!
Looks delicious! Yogurt sauces are seriously some of the best out there! Never thought to try with roasted veggies. Great recipe!
They totally are 🙂 Thanks Matt!
Another delicious dish Dawn! Roasting veggies is awesome, brings out their natural sweetness. And that tahini sauce YUM. We love roasting veggies too but we also sometimes steam them and dunk them in sauce (which I realize might defeat the purpose of eating HEALTHY veggies LOL but I’m eating them!). Happy Sunday!
Thank you so much, Jolina!! Hahaha – I hear ya 😉 Have a wonderful week!
Roasting brings out the very best in vegetables. Those little browned bits look tasty. I love the pops of red from the pomegranate!
It totally does! Thanks Kathy 🙂
I’m a HUGE fan of roasted veggies too!! I grew up eating vegetables the same way you did! Also, I’m so intrigued by all of these fun Newfoundland classics. I really need to come visit!! Love this dish my friend – pinned!! Have a great weekend! XO
You really do!!! Thanks Katherine! Have a great weekend too! XO
Roasted cauliflower was my FAVOURITE vegetable growing up…I’ve never tried it with tahini, and I think it’s time to change that. Thanks for the inspo!
It’s pretty delish! Thanks Riz 🙂
We are all about roasting veggies these days. I’m swooning over that tahini yogurt dressing and the sweet pop of pomegranate seeds in this!
You’ve got me interested in that jigg’s dinner too – never heard of it, but it sounds like I’d love it.
Cheers to a wonderful weekend, my friend!
Thanks Marissa!! I’m sure you would love it! Have a lovely weekend too 🙂
I can never get enough roasted cauliflower! Next time I roast some, I’ll definitely be trying your yogurt sauce. That sounds right up my alley! Happy weekend, Dawn!
Thanks Nicole!! Happy to hear that 🙂 Have a great weekend too!
Roasted veggies are my favorite! Although I did grow up eating mostly steamed. But the caramel-y parts on the roasted ones are the best right? I like to let mine stay in the oven longer than they should so every piece is just one sweet caramelized bite. And now I’m adding cauliflower to my shopping list :). Have a great weekend, Dawn!
Totally the best!! Thanks Kelsie! You too 🙂
I’m with you Dawn. Definitely trying to increase my veggie consumption this month! And I can totally relate to the boiled veggies. That’s all we ate growing up. Now I’m all about the roasted veggies! And this roasted cauliflower looks great! I’m definitely trying the tahini yogurt sauce. It sounds so versatile. Happy weekend!
Thanks Leanne! That sauce really is! Happy weekend to you too 🙂
Oven roasted veggies are my favorite Dawn! This cauliflower looks delish and I LOVE that sauce. Can’t wait to try!
Thank you Mary Ann! Hope you enjoy it 🙂
I’m so on a cauliflower kick right now! I roasted a whole head the other day (which was a much bigger pain than I thought- an hour and a half!!!), and we could only eat half of it.. So I turned the rest into soup! This sounds delicious too- tahini is an amazing idea!
Whoa! I beet it tasted awesome, though!! Thanks Sarah 🙂
I am with you, Dawn! Best way to eat cauliflower is roasted, then charred on the grill or in a hot, hot pan, then pickled. But roasted is my favorite:) I will try mixing tahini in my yogurt sauce next time, sounds delicious. Cheers to cauliflower and the weekend!
Grilling sounds pretty awesome too! Yum!! Thanks Milena! Have a fantastic weekend 🙂
I love what roasting does to vegetables. Like healthy candy 🙂 And that tahini yogurt sauce is perfect!
I hear ya!! Haha – true! Thanks Jennifer 🙂
Love this! I’m not usually a cauliflower person, but all roasted up like this and with yogurt sauce, it looks so good!! And I’ve never heard of jigg’s dinner, but if I’m ever up that far north, I’ll totally have to try it! 🙂
You definitely would have to!! Thanks Tracy! Hope this recipe changes your mind about cauliflower 😉
Roasted veggies are totally how we roll around here, too, Dawn! They’re just so easy and delicious. And there’s something magical that happens when you roast cauliflower. It turns buttery with those crispy brown little bits on the edges…oh yeah, I’m craving this recipe now! And that tahini yogurt sauce sounds like an easy way to boost the flavor!
Definitely! Now, you’re making me hungry, lol! Thanks David! Have a great weekend 🙂
Wow! You’d think there was a sale on tahini! You know what they say…great minds think alike; they must crave alike too! 😉 I adore oven roasted cauliflower and your sauce puts it over the top! Have a great weekend, lovely! XOXO
Haha! Right?? Thanks Annie! You too! XOXO