Roast cauliflower with chilli, garlic and thyme

Name: Roast cauliflower with chilli, garlic and thyme
Ingredients: olive oil; 3 sprigs of thyme, plus extra leaves to serve (optional); balsamic or sherry vinegar; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 large head of cauliflower, broken into roughly equal-sized florets, stalk trimmed and chopped; 2 garlic cloves, sliced; 1 fresh red chilli, thickly sliced

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Solo

By Signe Johansen

Published 2018

About

As any good cook will tell you, this is a ridiculously easy way to transform what is otherwise quite a bland vegetable: roasting cauliflower brings out its sweet nuttiness, and I love this dish on nights when I just want to veg out (sorry, couldn’t resist) in front of the TV.

Ingredients

1 large head of cauliflower, broken into roughly equal-sized florets, stalk trimmed and chopped
1 fresh red chilli, thickly sliced

Side dish
Main course
Gluten-free
Vegan

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6.

Put the florets of cauliflower and chopped stalk in a bowl with the chilli, garlic and thyme sprigs, and stir. Drizzle over a glug of oil and season with salt and pepper. Tip it all into a roasting dish or tray and drizzle a little vinegar