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Moroccan cooked salads are just delicious! Today we are making cauliflower zaalouk, an easy Moroccan spiced salad recipe that will become your favorite! Mash the cauliflower with a wooden spoon until Taste and adjust the same spices per your taste.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook cauliflower zaalouk (moroccan spiced salad) using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Cauliflower Zaalouk (Moroccan Spiced Salad):
- Make ready 1 medium sized cauliflower
- Get 4 large garlic cloves
- Make ready 1/4 cup chopped parsley and cilantro (mixed)
- Make ready 2 small preserved lemons (keep one aside for serving)
- Take 2 tablespoons olive oil
- Take 1 teaspoon ground paprika
- Make ready 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- Get Salt and pepper
- Prepare Sumac (optional)
Moroccan Zaalouk - Eggplant and Tomato Cooked Salad. Zaalouk is one of the most basic salads of Moroccan cuisine and there are a million ways of preparing it all across Morocco. From region to region or just from a family to another, the recipe often differs. Zaalouk is a traditional Moroccan salad made by cooking eggplant, tomatoes, garlic, and flavorings such as cumin, paprika, coriander, and parsley.
Steps to make Cauliflower Zaalouk (Moroccan Spiced Salad):
- Break or slice the cauliflower into medium-sized chunks.
- Bring a large pot filled with salted water to the boil, add the cauliflower chunks, cover, and cook until the cauliflower is tender enough to mash.
- In the meantime, prepare the rest of the ingredients. Crush and finely chop the garlic cloves. Finely chop the fresh parsley and cilantro. Remove the pulp of one of the preserved lemons, and finely chop it.
- Once the cauliflower is cooked (it should be tender enough that you can easily cut and mash it using a fork), drain the cauliflower and place in a large bowl. Mash the cauliflower with a wooden spoon until you get a soft mixture. It doesn't have to be completely smooth, leave some pieces for texture.
- In a large skillet, heat olive oil on medium heat, add the crushed garlic and cook for 2 minutes. Now add the mashed cauliflower, ground paprika, ground cumin, chopped preserved lemon pulp, chopped parsley and cilantro, salt, and pepper. Mix well.
- Cook for a few minutes, stirring constantly. Taste and adjust the spices to your taste. Continue cooking for another 10 minutes until the liquids are absorbed.
- Serve decorated with slices of preserved lemon, a sprinkling of sumac (optional) and crusty bread!
- Enjoy!
Although it can be served on its own, zaalouk is also often served as a side dish, a spread for sandwiches, or a dip, when it is paired with crusty bread. In Moroccan cooking, a Zaalouk is a roughly mashed dip, usually scooped up with pita bread. It's really pretty simple, and consists of mashing cooked cauliflower and sautéing it with tomatoes, olive oil, and spices. It makes a nice accompaniment or change to the traditional hummus in an appetizer. By Claire Georgiou, Reboot Naturopath, B.
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