Baked Cauliflower Poppers

From Delighted Momma (found on Pinterest, of course) come Baked Cauliflower Poppers. 

I cut the recipe in half

What I used:

• 1 heads of cauliflower
• 1/8 cup of canola oil (my budget couldn't handle the olive oil she used)
• 3/4 teaspoon of salt
• 1/2 teaspoon of pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2. Wash and clean the cauliflower. Cut off and discard the stem. Cut the cauliflower up into small pieces.
3. In a large bowl, combine the olive oil, salt and pepper. Add the cauliflower pieces and thoroughly coat each piece.
4. Place cauliflower pieces onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake for one hour and turn 3 times during cooking until each piece has a nice brown coloring. The browner they are the better.
5. Remove from oven and enjoy!

As I write this mine are still in the oven so I  will have to let you know later how they turned out. A little more work than I like to put into prep though, honestly. Though this blog may cause you to believe differently I do not actually like to cook, lol. So the less prep the better. I believe my exact response to 'turn 3 times during cooking' was 'turn 3 times my @$$' lol. Also I don't have any parchment paper so I'm hoping there's enough oil on them to keep them from sticking to the pan >.<

Let's see, calorie break down. 

1 medium head of cauliflower: 144 

1/8 cup Canola oil: 230

0 calories for the salt and pepper

Total calories: 374

For dipping I made a Ranch dip with fat free Greek yogurt (5.30 oz, Dannon Oikos) and a Hidden Valley Ranch packet

Yogurt: 80

Ranch Packet: 0

So, the poppers themselves are 374 calories (I am currently telling myself that 'It's OK, it's OK, it's OK' >.< ) And the dip is 80 calories but I very much doubt you will use it all. Also, a tip... if you make this dip I'd probably use just half of the ranch packet, lol. Oops.

So, 374 calories for a snack... well if we're sticking to the bare minimum of 1200 calories we've actually probably just eaten a meal rather than a snack, calorie wise (though remember, of the 144 calories in that cauliflower only 5 of them are from fat). But remember that's the bare minimum number of calories for a day. If we go with the average 2000 for an adult female then we're still OK. Just remember... 'It's OK, it's OK, it's OK'

By the way I just turned them the first time... you may forgo the parchment paper, they turn just fine.


I'll let you know how they turn out :)
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Ohmygosh I love these!!! Plain or with the ranch dip, mmmmmm! I think they were worth the clean up and turning three times, lol