Buffalo Cauliflower Bites

Buffalo Cauliflower Bites

These are one of my favorite snacks to make. They are super easy to make and you can play around with the recipe. I chose to make these with hot sauce but feel free to not add the hot sauce and just use ranch or keep them plain. But for any vegetarians out there who want something with buffalo sauce, this might be a good recipe to try!

Ingredients:

1 head of cauliflower

All purpose flour

Almond milk (or any dairy free milk of your choice)

Frank's Red Hot Buffalo Sauce (or choose any brand that YOU love)

Panko Bread Crumbs

1 Ranch seasoning packet

Cayenne Powder

Garlic Powder

Onion Powder

Black Pepper

Instructions:

1. Preheat your oven to about 350°F. If you are using an air fryer (like I did), don't worry about preheating.
2. Clean and cut up the cauliflower into bite sized pieces.
3. Take 3 bowls for the batters. In the first bowl, fill it with almond milk and the buffalo hot sauce. Mix.
4. In the second bowl, add all purpose flour, half of the ranch seasoning packet, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne powder, and black pepper.
5. In the third bowl, add panko bread crumbs, the other half of the ranch packet, and a little of the other seasonings you used in the flour batter (not as much). Arrange the bowls in this order to make a little assembly line- flour bowl, wet batter, and panko bowl.
6. Take a piece of the cut up cauliflower and roll in the flour batter, then roll in the wet batter (really quick- dont let these sit in the wet batter too long), and lastly roll the cauliflower in the panko bread crumbs. Place on baking sheet or in basket of air fryer. Continue this till you have used up all the cauliflower.
7. Place your baking sheet in the oven and let bake until panko is a golden brown. OR place in air fryer and cook on a low temp (about 275°F) for about 15-20 minutes to thoroughly cook cauliflower. Then turn the heat setting to 375°F or 400°F for the last 10-15 minutes. Just keep an eye on it to make sure it doesn't start burning. You may want to turn the pieces (for both the oven and air fryer) but it works perfectly well if you don't.

The Sauce????

I mixed the hot sauce with some ranch. it was a good dipping sauce since I wanted a little more spice. But honestly, you could eat them plain and it would work out just fine!