Mock Mash Potatoes?

They are AMAZING! I make mine by steaming one head of cauliflower that I cut up into bite size pieces. I love garlic so I steam three or four peeled cloves along with the cauliflower, but you can leave that out. I then throw my soft cauliflower into my Ninja Blender (any blender would do the trick, or a food processor) I put in a little sea salt, pepper, and a table spoon of light butter and pulse it till smooth. In my opinion, it tastes just like mashed potatoes. They can be refrigerated and reheated as well.

I've tried just mashing them like potatos with a fork or with the actual potato masher but I just don't find it gets smooth enough. Blending works perfectly! I've also heard of people adding a little chicken broth to give flavor but I found mine to have enough.

I just made a mock "loaded potato casserole" the other night and my husband loved it.!

1 head cauliflower - cook your preferred way (steamed or boiled) until very tender
4oz fat free cream cheese
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
4 tablespoons bacon pieces
2 tablespoons parmesan cheese
1/2 tablespoon minced garlic

Once the cauliflower is cooked, drain excess moisture and put in food processor with all the other ingredients. Blend well. Transfer into glass baking dish, sprinkle with a little cheese and bake for 20 min at 350 degrees.
At 6 servings, this comes to about 168 calories per serving. This was my first time making it and the ingredients made this LOADED with flavor. You could easily cut back on the 2 cheeses and bacon to about half what is mentioned here and still have plenty of flavor. It would also drop your calories down to around 100 per serving.

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need to try this sometime... keep hearing about it... glad you brought it up OP!:drinker:

I agree with everyone, they are delicious!

I just steam the cauliflower with a few cloves of garlic and then run it through the food processor with some salt, pepper, garlic powder, and plain greek yogurt (which I use in leiu of sour cream for the added protein).

My favorite main dish to make with that is a simple pan fried spinach and feta stuffed chicken breast.

They are awesome!!!!

Can't wait to try this!

Not only were they amazing, we were also able to fool our 10 year-old. He thought they were just mashed potatoes.

Personally, i think they are better than mashed potatoes, and my mashed potatoes are pretty damn good.

i tried them and was really hopeful because of people's general positive reviews. let me just say, NEVER again. I chose a recipe that had tons of 5-star reviews and support, from a food blogger I love, and while I may like mashed potatoes more than most (that was my mom's pregnancy craving lol) I could not find a single equivalency other than the appearance. It was incredibly disappointing because I had wanted it to work so badly.

Gotta be Debbie Downer here. I love cauliflower and I tried making the South Beach "Surprise" mashed potatoes which is the mashed cauliflower. I thought it tasted O.K. (would much rather just have roasted or grilled cauliflower) but my husband asked that I not surprise him again and told our kids they didn't have to eat it!