When you live with a daughter who’s a dietitian and mostly a vegetarian, you have to be pretty selective when it comes to what you fix for dinner. These low carb fried cauliflower patties are a healthy, low calorie, low carbohydrate alternative to potato cakes, but have the same great taste.
They come in with a pretty respectable 10.3 grams of carbohydrates for two patties. And did you know, cauliflower is a cruciferous vegetable and has many healthy attributes as described by the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Here’s the article, Cruciferous Vegetables, from their Micronutrient Information Center. Disclaimer: This link leads to a website provided by the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. Joe’s Healthy Meals is not affiliated or endorsed by the Linus Pauling Institute or Oregon State University.
If cauliflower recipes are your thing, check out some others I’ve posted, like: Pan Seared Cauliflower with Bacon, Roasted Cauliflower with Buffalo Sauce, or Microwave Garlicky Cauliflower Rice.
Making the low carb fried cauliflower patties
In order to keep these low carbohydrate, I used half the flour that most recipes use. I used white whole wheat flour but all-purpose would work just as well. I also found that hand forming the patties worked best and they held together really well in the skillet. Initially, I tried to take a scoop and put it in the skillet and flatten it with a fork. That didn’t work out well and the cake broke apart. Mary Jo became my patty maker and hand forming the cakes insured that they stayed together. I used a #16 scoop to size the patties, which is just under 1/4 cup.
I included this picture of the steamed cauliflower, hoping that the steamer basket would show. It’s a real handy kitchen item to have.
I served the low carb fried cauliflower patties with pan seared boneless chicken breasts. Yum. Give this a try…here’s the printable recipe.
Low Carb Fried Cauliflower Patties
Ingredients
- 5 cups steamed cauliflower , (one large head)
- ½ cup white whole wheat flour
- 2 large eggs
- 2 minced garlic cloves
- ½ cup pecorino Romano cheese , (or Parmesan)
- 2 tbsp grated onion
- ¼ cup chopped parsley
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp pepper
- 3 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Break the cauliflower into florets, then steam 12 to 15 minutes, then let cool
- Place in a food processor and pulse into a coarse grind. (This is best done in 3 or 4 small batches).
- Place in a large bowl and fold in the flour, eggs garlic, cheese, onion, parsley salt and pepper.
- Place in the refrigerator for 30 minutes or until you are ready to fry the patties.
- Heat a non stick skillet on medium to medium high heat, add 1 to 1½ tbsp oil.
- Use a #16 scoop, (just under ¼ cup), to measure, place the dough on your hands and form a patty approximately 3" in diameter.
- Place in the hot skillet and fry for 2 to 3 minutes, turn and fry the second side for 2 minutes. (Fry 4 to 6 patties at a time).
- Repeat for the remaining batter, adding small amounts of oil as needed.
- Serve warm
Notes
Nutrition
Not really sure how “healthy” and “low calorie” anything fried can be but hey at least you’re trying.
I worked fried caullflower Patties.
I hope that worked for you.
Could I use fine ground almond flour?
Hey Donna…I’ve never used almond flour but give it a try and let us know how it works. I’d guess fabulous.
Can I use all purpose flour?
That would be fine Roberta.
Can u use cauliflower rice to make this?
Hi Daphney. Riced cauliflower should work just fine. Before making the patties, refrigerate for 30 to 60 minutes so they hold together well.
These are great – they are awesome fresh and they reheat well, also, so they are great for lunches when you have access to either a microwave or toaster oven. Thanks!
Thanks Jami…so glad you liked this.
Low Carb Fried Cauliflower Patties, Joe, Flora & I tried this for our Sunday Dinner as a vegie & with our burger & tomato, lettuce , mayo & potato salad dinner it was great and we had them on Monday as a start to the week as we are trying to loss weight before we come to Minn for the wedding, the 1/4 cup is the good size for this as we found that if you go bigger it does not cook as well and if you go to smaller it will break, we tried to press them down in the pan and found that if you do it will break or not cook as well, so to form them before you put them in the pan works best…
Thanks John & Flora
These look delicious!
They are Josie. You might want to have them with a mayo or yogurt based sauce…maybe with Franks hot sauce or sriracha.
Good side dish with chicken. A little sauce on top made of Greek yogurt, dill weed, garlic, grated cuke, and green onions would be good and would add some protein, too.