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Spicy Green Rice Bowls with Roasted Cauliflower
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
36 mins
Total Time
50 mins
 

Brown rice tossed in a spicy herb-flecked green sauce made with Basbaas Coconut Cilantro Chutney, topped with roasted cauliflower and garnished with toasted cashews and fresh herbs. 

Servings: 3
Ingredients
Spicy Green Rice
  • 2 cloves garlic, peeled
  • 1 cup cilantro leaves
  • 1/2 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves
  • 2 jalapeños
  • 2 Tbsp Basbaas Coconut Cilantro Chutney
  • 1 tsp lime juice
  • pinch sea salt
  • 1/8 cup olive oil
  • 3 cups cooked brown rice
Roasted Cauliflower
  • 1 medium head cauliflower, cut into florets
  • 1 Tbsp olive oil
  • 1/2 tsp coriander
  • 1/4 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
  • 1/4 tsp sea salt
Cashews
  • 3/4 cup raw, unsalted cashews
  • 1/2 tsp olive oil
  • pinch sea salt
Toppings
  • 2 green onions, sliced thin
  • 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
  • lime wedges
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 475 degrees F and line a baking pan with parchment paper. Set prepared pan aside. 

  2. Once the oven is hot, place jalapeños directly on the oven rack and roast, turning every 3-5 minutes for about 15 minutes. You want the skins to blacken and blister. 

  3. Once jalapeños are blistered, remove from the oven and place in a bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and let the jalapeños steam for 15 minutes. This will make removing the skins far easier. 

  4. While jalapeños are steaming, prepare the roasted cauliflower. Decrease oven temperature to 375 degrees F. In a large bowl toss and combine cauliflower with olive oil, coriander, garlic powder, cayenne, and salt. Lay cauliflower in a single layer on the prepared baking pan. Roast for 36 minutes, stirring halfway.

  5. Once jalapeños are done steaming, remove and discard the skins. Slice off and throw away the tops of each jalapeno, cut lengthwise and seed, if desired. 

  6. To make the sauce, put garlic cloves in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until garlic is finely chopped. Add cilantro, parsley, jalapeños, Basbaas sauce, lime juice, and salt. Pulse food processor until ingredients are combined, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl, as needed. 

  7. While the food processor is running, stream in olive oil and let run until ingredients are well combined and only flecks of herbs remain. Taste for salt. Set aside.

  8. In a small pan over medium heat, dry toast the cashews stirring them often, until golden and fragrant, about 5-8 minutes. Remove from heat.

  9. Once you can handle the cashews, chop roughly leaving some whole. In a medium bowl combine cashews with olive oil and sea salt and toss until nuts are well coated. 

  10. To serve, in a large bowl combine cooked rice with the spicy green herb sauce, coating rice well. Dish rice out into wide bowls and top with roasted cauliflower and cashews. Garnish bowls with green onion, cilantro, and lime wedges. 

Notes

I prefer to roast and salt my nuts so I can better control the salt in a dish, but if you already have roasted, salted cashews on hand, you can use those, you may just have to decrease the salt elsewhere. For the jalapeños, I seeded one and left the other one and the dish was perfectly spicy for my personal taste.  Remember that you can always add more spice, but you can't take it away.