Salads are very easy and quick to make, so they are always an excellent resource when we don’t have enough time to cook more elaborate dishes. Likewise, they allow us to mix a whole series of ingredients with a high nutritional value, such as fruits, vegetables or legumes. For all these reasons, including salad recipes in our diet is more than recommended!
We share a simple but delicious and complete cooked cauliflower salad, which includes carrot, onion, spices and mayonnaise. Although it is true that mayonnaise is not usually a light sauce, if we choose to make it homemade we will make sure to use quality products and the result will be much healthier. This salad is perfect to eat alone or to accompany grilled meat, grilled or baked fish, vegetable burgers, etc. And if you want to discover other options, we share more recipes for cauliflower salad, raw, light and much more. Keep reading and discover with us how to make cauliflower salad.
Ingredients to make Cold Cauliflower Salad:
- 1 cauliflower
- 2 carrots
- 1 purple onion
- 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise
- chopped parsley
- black pepper
- Salt
For the mayonnaise
- 1 egg
- 1 splash of olive oil
How to make Cold Cauliflower Salad:
Wash the cauliflower, separate it into small trees and cut them to obtain smaller pieces. Apart, peel the carrots and cut them to your liking. Of course, try to make pieces of a similar size to those of cauliflower. Cook the cauliflower and carrot in a pot of boiling water for 5-10 minutes, depending on how done you want them to be. If you prefer to make the cauliflower salad raw, you can too! In this case, you can skip this step. Drain the vegetables when they are ready and run them under cold water to stop the cooking. Then, place them in a bowl or a salad bowl, add the chopped onion, the chopped parsley, salt and pepper to taste. Then, prepare the mayonnaise by constantly beating the egg with the oil and add the indicated amount to the salad. For detailed steps, don’t miss Homemade Mayonnaise Recipe.
Tip: We recommend using red onion because it is one of the softest varieties of onion, ideal to consume raw.
And ready! You can now enjoy this delicious cauliflower and carrot salad recipe. We have opted for a cauliflower salad with mayonnaise, however, to make the dish lighter, you can always eliminate this sauce and replace it with a drizzle of olive oil. Likewise, we can include other ingredients and prepare, for example, a cauliflower and broccoli salad or a cauliflower and potato salad, the possibilities are endless!
How to make a light and raw cauliflower salad – Other recipes
The cooked cauliflower salad that we have shared is a delight and it is very easy to make, however, it is even easier and faster to make it without any type of cooking. To do this, we will simply have to wash the cauliflower well, chop it and mix it with the ingredients that we like the most. If what we are looking for is to make a light cauliflower salad, we recommend opting for these ingredients:
- Carrot
- Potato
- Tuna
- Broccoli
- Onions
- Pepper
- Boiled egg
- Lettuce
- Avocado
- Tomatoes
We can prepare the raw cauliflower salad by mixing all the above ingredients or selecting the ones we like the most. Thus, we can make cauliflower and tuna salad, for example, or cauliflower and tomato salad. On the other hand, another very healthy and light option is to add legumes such as chickpeas. Here are some of these recipes:
Cauliflower salad with mayonnaise
The cauliflower salad that we have learned to prepare already has mayonnaise; however, there are many types of mayonnaise that we can use, such as the following:
- avocado mayonnaise
- Eggless Mayonnaise
Cauliflower and tuna salad
To prepare this salad, we recommend adding: cauliflower washed and chopped two cans of raw tuna (no oil if we are looking for a light option), a chopped tomato, and a peeled and chopped carrot, well-washed lettuce and chopped green pepper. Once all the ingredients are ready, mix and dress the cauliflower and tuna salad with a drizzle of olive oil or sugar-free soy sauce.
Cauliflower and potato salad
The cauliflower and carrot salad that we have shared is low in carbohydrates, so including potatoes is more than recommended if we are not going to eat carbohydrates in another way. Carbohydrates are essential to keep us healthy, so they should always be present in our diet, whether or not to lose weight.
To make this salad we must cook the potatoes or cook them in the microwave, let them cool and mix them with the raw or cooked cauliflower and the vegetables that we like the most.
Cold cauliflower salad for diet
Given that mayonnaise contains a considerable amount of oil, if we are looking for a diet cauliflower salad recipe, it would be better to do without this ingredient. As an alternative, we recommend dressing the salad with olive oil (maximum two tablespoons per person) or with sugar-free soy sauce, which will also add extra flavor to the dish.
However, if we make homemade mayonnaise we should know that we can include it perfectly in the salad, as long as we are not used to eat this type of sauce on a daily basis and, in addition, we compensate the intake of these calories with the rest of the day’s meals.
