Cauliflower and cheese cakes in chile ancho sauce

Jack Fermon
Jack Fermon @el_pinche_jack
Mountain View, CA

This Mexican recipe can be done with either chile pasilla or chile ancho peppers. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVxvOJHSeW/

Cauliflower and cheese cakes in chile ancho sauce

This Mexican recipe can be done with either chile pasilla or chile ancho peppers. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVxvOJHSeW/

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Ingredients

1 hr
3 people
  1. Cakes
  2. 1cauliflower
  3. 1 cupflour
  4. 200 grqueso fresco (white Mexican cheese), grated
  5. 1 tbspsalt
  6. 1egg
  7. 1 bunchcilantro; chopped
  8. 1/2onion; finely chopped
  9. vegetable oil to fry
  10. Sauce
  11. 5ancho or pasilla dry peppers
  12. 2roma tomatoes, roughly chopped
  13. 1/4onion, roughly chopped
  14. 2garlic cloves
  15. 1 cupstock (either vegetable or chicken)
  16. 2 tbspolive oil

Cooking Instructions

1 hr
  1. 1

    Hydrate the dried chili peppers in boiling water for 4 or 5 minutes

  2. 2

    Remove the chili pepper stems and add them to the blender, along with the rest of the sauce ingredients excepting the olive oil. Blend everything together.

  3. 3

    Heat the olive oil in a saucepan and add the content of the blender passing it through a strainer. Cook the sauce/salsa for 15 to 20 minutes or until it thickness.

  4. 4

    Clean and cut the cauliflower in pieces, and cook or steam it until fully cooked. Wait until it cools and finely chop it with a food processor, a knife or even with the hands (should be very soft.) Squeeze the cauliflower through a coriander or a cloth to extract as much water as possible.

  5. 5

    In a mixing bowl, add the cooked cauliflower along with the rest of the ingredients (except the vegetable oil) and mix everything together until having a thick dough.

  6. 6

    Grab about 4 tbsp of the dough and make the cakes with your hands (about 9 cm of diameter x 2 cm thick). Shallow-fry them on hot vegetable oil for 3 minutes on each side.

  7. 7

    Dry them with paper towels

  8. 8

    To serve, add a bed of the salsa in a shallow dish, 3 or four of the cakes and decorate with some cilantro.

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Mexican living in California. Amateur chef and street food connoisseur. instagram.com/el_pinche_jack
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