Garlic
Cauliflower Mash
This recipe is focusing on the side dish, rather than the main dish. For dinner, we made a seasoned, baked pork chop. It was good, fine, nothing spectacular. I'd definitely use different seasonings the next time around, I was just playing around with some different things. The cauliflower mash was definitely a different take on a side dish. I wish I had an immersion blender to really have gotten it creamy, I think it would have tasted much more like mashed potatoes, but they were still good. I had a hard time figuring up the points for this one because it was pretty much all vegetables, with the exception of a little milk and one tablespoon of butter, and vegetables are free, so if I go into weight watchers and mark each ingredient separately, it would have been like 1 3 points for the whole pot of them. However, if you use the recipe builder on weight watchers, it doesn't necessarily count fruit and veggies free like the PointsPlus system does, it figures up the nutritional value of every ingredient then divides it out by servings, so according to that, it was like 2 points a serving. Either way, it's low points, I went with the 1 point, because it was eating a lot of vegetables and I felt good about that.
Ingredients:
1
large head of cauliflower
3
cups water
4
garlic cloves
1
tsp salt
1
bay leaf
1
T. butter
½
c. skim milk
Salt
and pepper
Directions:
1.
Cut cauliflower into florets and place
in slow cooker.
2.
Add water, garlic, salt, and bay leaf.
3.
Cover and cook on high 2-3 hours or
low 4-6 hours.
4.
Remove garlic and bay leaf and drain
water.
5.
Add in butter and let it melt.
6.
Then using a potato masher or
immersion blender, mash it up adding the milk as needed. Add salt and pepper to
taste.
Yields
4 servings – WWP+ 1 per serving
Shown
here with a 1 point salad: lettuce, tomatoes, mushrooms, cucumbers and 2 T. fat
free Caesar Italian dressing, and a 5 point seasoned, baked pork chop.
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