Cauliflower Dessert

We had a bit of a surplus of cauliflower in the fridge, so my housemate challenged me to use this to make a dessert. I thought I'd play it safe and make a kind of rice pudding where the rice is cauliflower (so cauliflower pudding I guess). This is a pretty simple recipe, the experimental part is the idea. To be fair other people have tried this before on the internet although the stuff I read was more about it being vegan and low GI than being something nice or worth making for its own sake.

First I riced the cauliflower (well chopped it up as small as I could be bothered). I used about half of one.

The plan was to mix this with coconut milk and serve with golden syrup. Here are these ingredients decoratively arranged.

This was put in a pan for a medium heat for what was meant to be around half an hour. After about half this time this had resulted in something that tasted like bits of cauliflower floating in coconut milk. To correct this I upped the heat a little to try to thicken it up a bit and chucked in a cinnamon stick for flavour.

 This helped a little but it was still a bit to thin so to thicken it up I blitzed it up (without electrocuting myself this time). This was then put back on the heat with the cinnamon (I'd removed this whilst blending).

 Finally after another few minutes on the heat, up to the point the bits of cauliflower stuck to the edge of the pan were burnt, I declared it ready. At this staged I placed it in a bowl and 'decoratively' drizzled golden syrup over it.

Not being one to keep all of a good thing to myself I presented a slightly smaller portion to my housemate, also arranged decoratively below.

Review

In short this the the best cauliflower dessert anyone who has tasted it has ever tried. Although to be fair it is also the worst. It turned out quite well actually and I like to think because of my on the fly corrections (that tasting as you go thing the chefs talk about on the TV seems a good idea).

I think I got the cinnamon in there for the right amount of time, although the final result wasn't a thick as I would have liked...adding a large proportion of cauliflower would correct this, but probably unbalance the tasted. An odd thing about this was that I couldn't taste the coconut, so by replacing this with something slightly thicker (cream/condensed milk?) it might be possible to get a better overall result, although that would need testing.