Cauliflower has been the talk of the town from celebrity chefs such as Rachel Ray and Jamie Oliver to companies such as Kraft adding it to their macaroni & cheese dishes. Cauliflower is the latest and greatest way to put vegetables into your kids’ meals in a kid-friendly, kid-approved manner.

Here are some simple tips to add the fiber-filled (3.5 grams of fiber per 1 cup) cauliflower into your life and get your kids their Vitamin C & E:

• Mash up cauliflower just like mashed potatoes! You can even mix the 2 together for a double whammy of both your starchy vegetable mixed with your non-starchy vegetable in 1 dish. Click here to go to our Cauliflower Mash recipe. 
• Here’s a photo of our Cauliflower Mash with some roasted sweet potatoes & grilled Tilapia.

• Cut up some raw cauliflower and use that to dip into your hummus or ranch dip instead of the same-old carrot. Click here to go to our Hummus or Ranch Dip recipes.

• Spray the cauliflower with some oil, add salt & pepper. Roast the cauliflower in the oven at 400° Bake for about 25 minutes. Sprinkle with some grated parmesan cheese and enjoy.

• Cauliflower in Pasta Sauce is another way to add in those veggies!

• Add the cauliflower to any soup. Cauliflower in chicken soup is divine!

• Try treating cauliflower like potatoes. You can cook the cauliflower like you’d cook the potato and add the same fixins to it. Deee-licious!

By Sarah Koszyk, MA, RDN