Roasted Sriracha Cauliflower Bites with Peanut Dipping Sauce----Thug Kitchen

So I got this new cookbook from my daughter for my birthday. Thug Kitchen. I have to say it has some ass-kicking recipes in it. And it is all vegan. Before you let that scare you off, consider how much more there is to a meal than the meat. I'm omnivorous. I like meat. But meat is taking up less and less real estate on my plate. It is expensive. There are way to many antibiotics and other crap in there. The animals are treated like shit before they are killed. There are a lot of reasons to rethink meat. But even if you don't, you still have to eat more than meat.

So far I've tried the veggie lasagna, one of the stir-fry dishes, and tomorrow I am going to serve lots of hungry college students "Roasted Sriracha Cauliflower Bites w/ Peanut Dipping Sauce". The recipe looks easy enough to scale for 400. I made about 5 gallons of the Peanut Dipping Sauce today. It is good, with a citrus tang that really cuts the cloying tendency of the peanut butter. I'll let you know how it goes. Meanwhile, here is the recipe, straight from "Eat Like You Give A Fu*k" by Thug Kitchen, unedited and unadulterated.

2 medium heads cauliflower
1/2 c flour
1/2 c water

Hot Sauce
2 t oil, olive, coconut, grapeseed...whatever you got
1/2 to 2/3 c Sriracha, if you like it hot go for the 2/3c
1/4 c rice vinegar
1/2 t soy sauce or tamari

Peanut Dipping Sauce
1/4 c warm water
1/4 c plus 2 T creamy peanut butter
2 T rice vinegar
2 T lime juice
2 t minced fresh ginger
1 t maple syrup or agave syrup


1 cucumber cut into finger-long sticks

1. Crank your oven to 450 F. Lightly grease a rimmed baking sheet. Chop up your cauliflower into little trees no bigger than your thumb.
2. Whisk together the flour and water in a big bowl until a batter forms with no chunks. Did you already fuck up and its chunky? Start that shit over again. Toss in the cauliflower and mix it around until all the pieces look a little coated.  Spread the cauliflower out on the baking sheet and roast for 15 minutes. Mix those fuckers around halfway through roasting so all the sides get a little love.
3. Make the hot sauce. In a small pan mix the oil, sriracha, vinegar, and soy sauce. Heat over a low heat until the sauce is warm but not bubbling. Turn off the heat and leave it alone.
4. Now its time for the peanut dipping sauce. In a medium glass, whisk together the wate rand the peanut butter until it looks all creamy. Add all the other ingredients and keep stirring until everything is incorporated. Stick that in the fridge until it's go time.
5. After 15 minutes in the oven, dump the cauliflower back in a big bowl and toss it with the hot sauce mixture from the stove-top. Make sure everything is coated. Drop those motherfuckers back on the baking sheet, leaving the extra sauce in the bowl, and roast for another 3 minutes just so everything is warm and delicious.
6. Serve hot or at room temperature with the cucumber sticks and peanut dipping sauce on the side.