Cauliflower rice is a great basic recipe to have on hand. It's easy to make a big batch — and stock your refrigerator or freezer with a ready-to-cook, 5-minute side dish that goes with just about anything. Here's how to make cauliflower rice for multiple meals.
Most cauliflower rice recipes call for pulsing the cauliflower in a food processor, working in batches. This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. You can read my my full disclosure policy here.
But I think the fastest and easiest way is to use the grater blade in the food processor. I use the fine shredding disc
Once the cauliflower is riced, cook what you need, and store the rest, uncooked, in the refrigerator or freezer. I like to keep a big bowl of riced cauliflower in the refrigerator. It lasts for a few days, and it's easy to just scoop out a couple of cups to cook with dinner. If you need to keep it longer, here's how to freeze cauliflower rice.
My favorite way to cook cauli-rice is a quick saute. The only essential ingredients are a little bit of cooking fat, salt, and pepper. You can cook as much, or as little as you need. And add whatever flavorings you like. I like my cauliflower rice al dente, so I cook it about 5 minutes.
Lately, I've been adding a drizzle of truffle oil at the end and topping the cauli rice with fried eggs for breakfast. And cauliflower rice topped with crock pot pulled pork is an easy weeknight dinner.
Great for meal prep—stock your refrigerator or freezer with this ready-to-cook, 5-minute side dish that goes with just about anything.
- 1 head cauliflower
- 1 tablespoon olive oil ghee, or bacon fat
- sea salt
- fresh ground pepper
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Cut cauliflower into large florets.
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Rice cauliflower using shredding blade on food processor. Or pulse cauliflower in food processor with chopping blade, or grate by hand on box grater.
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Heat fat in large frying pan over medium heat. Add cauliflower rice and saute until just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
More Easy Paleo Recipes Using Cauliflower
Crock Pot Cauliflower Chicken Chili
Easy Paleo Gravy
Roasted Cauliflower Hummus
Thanks for sharing this- I need to make some big changes and make healthier decisions! Pinning!
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Interesting, I would have never thought to do this. Thanks for sharing on the #HomeMattersParty I hope you will join us again next week.
Oh wow! I really thought this was rice! Such a great healthy alternative to rice. Thanks for this little tip! 🙂
I’ve always wanted to try this, and you make it look incredibly easy! Thanks for sharing at Merry Monday. 🙂
Easy and delicious! I did add cayenne pepper for a kick and cilantro while serving.
Loved it! I wasn’t too excited about it but very curious and since I’ve been looking for healthier alternatives to my regular food choices I decided to give it a try, and surprise surprise!. It is very delicious and quite filling too!. Thank you for sharing.
Yay! I’m so glad you loved it, Virginia!
Could you shred the cauliflower and freeze some? I have a one person household and that would be alot of servings for me.
Yes, you can freeze it, Jo Ann. I freeze it in 1 or 2 cup portions so it’s easy to pull just as much as I need out of the freezer.
But do u cook it before freezing thericed cauliflower
Hi Victoria, I freeze it raw. And I cook it straight from the freezer. It cooks so quickly you don’t need to thaw it first. Hope this helps!
I was beginning to think I was the only one who uses the grater attachment on my food processor to make cauliflower rice! All th other recipes use the chopper blade which takes twice as long as you have to do it in batches if you are doing a big weekly cook up. Spread the word!
Could you use a manual ricer (normally used for potatoes to make mashed potatoes) for this instead of a food processor?
Hi Amanda, I haven’t tried this. If you do, let me know how it turns out!
I do not recommend a potatoe ricer for cauliflower “rice”, it would change the texture to a mashed consistency plus the cauliflower rice is grated raw. If you want a mashed potatoe texture then that ricer might wirk but the cauliflower neefs to be cooked first..good luck
So easy, healthy and darn delicious. This was a lifesaver for my low carb diet. Now I can serve my sauced recipes over this. Thanks! My only complaint is the mess grinding in the food processor creates but it’s worth it!