Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad Recipe
Looking for a lower-carb option for your beloved potato salad? This Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad recipe is for you!
Raise your hand if you love potato salad! Mmmmm, hmmmmm ... I'm right there with all of you who shot your hand straight up as fast as it would possibly move.
Now ... raise your hand if sometimes you just don't want all the carbs that come along with that scrumptious potato salad! Yes, my hand is right up there, too.
Fortunately, if you'd like a lower-carb option for your beloved potato salad, this Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad recipe works as a great alternative.
I have a tendency to totally crash if I eat a lot of carbs early in and throughout the day. My energy gets low, my get-up-and-go is gone, and I just feel all-around lethargic. So I do truly try to be mindful of my carbs, relegating the majority of my carb eating to dinner time.
I just feel a whole lot better when I eat that way.
If you'd like a lower-carb option for your beloved potato salad, this Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad recipe works as a great alternative.
And that's why I love this Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad recipe. With the use of cauliflower instead of potatoes as the base, it's a much lower-carb option I feel better about enjoying any time of the day.
So if I happen to have a hankering for some potato salad at lunch time, this no-potato cauliflower version lets me satisfy that craving without going for those higher-carb potatoes. I can hold onto my get-up-and-go all throughout the afternoon!
Now, I know some of you are probably thinking "No way there's no way a mock potato salad made with cauliflower can possibly be good."
Oh, rest assured it is good!
In terms of flavor, the Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad recipe is pretty dead-on for a match with classic egg-and-mustard potato salad. As a side alongside that perfectly grilled hot dog? Perfect.
And the look?
Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad sure doesn't look mock. It looks like actual-potato potato salad for sure, don't you think?
The one place this recipe isn't quite as close to regular potato salad is in texture.
Truth be told, the only way to truly get that soft-and-creamy-potato texture when you bite into potato salad is to ... well ... use potatoes. I do very much enjoy this salad's texture, though.
The cauliflower is indeed soft, but it's just not as tender-creamy as potatoes, to be 100% honest with you.
Oh, rest assured it is good!
So if you'd like to enjoy a lower-carb version of potato salad, or are {like me} a lover of cauliflower ... this Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad recipe is for you.
It's the perfect not-potato potato salad to go along with that perfectly grilled summer dog.
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Yield: about 10-12 servings
Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad
Looking for a lower-carb option for your beloved potato salad? This Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad recipe is for you!
prep time: 15 Mcook time: 5 Mtotal time: 20 M
ingredients:
- 1 large head cauliflower, cut into small bite-sized pieces
- 3 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
- 3 T. mayonnaise
- 3 T. sour cream
- 1/4 c. sweet pickle relish
- 1 T. finely chopped onion {Vidalia onion, if available}
- 1 T. mustard
- 1 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. ground black pepper
instructions:
How to cook Cauliflower Mock 'Potato' Salad
- Bring a pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Add chopped cauliflower; cover and cook for 5 minutes. Drain in a large colander and rinse under cold water to cool and stop the cooking process.
- Combine cauliflower and all remaining ingredients. Chill for at least 30 minutes to allow flavors to blend.
- When ready to serve, taste and adjust salt and pepper as desired.
You might also like these other tasty salad favorites:
Green Bean, Walnut & Feta Salad
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