Slow Roast Coconut Cauliflower

I think this has to be one of the simplest ways to make cauliflower. Especially if you already have the oven going to cook something else. Just add in an extra rack and put this on top.

I had wanted to try cooking with coconut oil because it's supposed to be good for you. I brought it but haven't used it beyond making popcorn so I decided to try with the cauliflower.
The aroma was very nice but it did not taste very strong in coconut flavour. So if you want stronger coconut flavour, you'll probably need to add some coconut flakes.

Since I usually bake the cauliflower only if I'm baking something else (ie chicken etc), the heat in the direction below is alter for that.
If the only thing you're baking is the cauliflower, you can bake it at 400 degrees F for 25-30 mins instead of the lower heat.

Slow Roast Coconut Cauliflower

Ingredients

• 1 Cauliflower
• 1 tsp Coconut Oil
• Sprinkle of Salt
• Sprinkle of Pepper

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and add that second rack for the cauliflower.
2. While the oven is preheating, remove the leaves of the cauliflower.
3. Wash your cauliflower in salt and water. Let it soak in case there are bugs so they'll come out.
4. Once you've had a good soaking, peel the outer layer of the stem because it tends to be too hard to eat. 
   
5. Cut up the cauliflower and it's stem into bite size pieces. 
6. Throw into a baking dish.
7. Salt and pepper the dish and mix it up.
8. Add bits and pieces of the coconut oil on top of the cauliflower and spread around as much as possible so that when it melts, it will cover all the cauliflower.
9. Bake it for 45 mins to an hour in the top rack, pending on how soft you like your cauliflower

Tip: The length of time in your oven will really depend on things like is your oven convection or not to determine how well hot air gets circulated around the different dishes you have in the oven. If you don't have a convection oven, it will take longer since it's on the top shelf. Try to stagger the dish so they're not completely on top of each other and flip it around half way through so both sides gets even cooking.

Categories: Baked, Cauliflower, Coconut Oil, nonChinese, Roast