Kitchen Garden

CLASSY CURDS? YES YOU CAN!

Cauliflower is one of those staple kitchen vegetables which makes us think of cauliflower cheese perhaps, but please don’t relegate it to that one dish as it can do so much more! After all, homemade piccalilli wouldn’t be the same without small chunks of cauliflower sticking through the turmeric and mustard spiced sauce; neither would a deliciously spicy Aloo Gobi curry, with its soft potatoes and cauliflower pieces. Traditionally a boiled vegetable, cauliflower is now finding new fans who love it raw with dips or made into ‘rice’.

CHOOSE RIGHT

Cauliflowers are part of the brassica family, so they’re related to cabbages and kales, yet it’s the immature flower – otherwise known as a curd – that

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