Cauliflower Rice with Mushrooms and Feta! – This combo will make you quickly forget it’s cauliflower and not rice!
Cauliflower rice where have you been all my life! I mean I have heard of it, but I really didn’t think it would taste like rice…but it does! Especially with a little help from my beloved mushrooms and pinch of thyme and feta!
A huge tasty helping of this stuff clocks in at only 99 calories a serving, and it’s a big serving!
I bought a two pound bag of it at Costco. I used fresh, but frozen will work fine. Just increase the cooking time by a few minutes.
The mushrooms and the thyme give it an earthy flavor and the feta? Well everyone knows feta makes everything beta!
Easy of course…I mean super easy! Chop, chop, sauté, sauté, eat eat!
How to make Cauliflower Rice with Mushrooms and Feta
First things first, the mushrooms, onions and garlic. TIP: Do not salt your mushrooms until they are as brown as you want them. Salt keeps them from reaching their full browning potential!
Cauliflower rice comes several ways. Fresh or frozen works in this recipe.
- Buy a fresh whole cauliflower head and either grate on a box grater or pulverize in your food processor.
- Store bought fresh riced cauliflower.
- Store bought frozen riced cauliflower.
After a quick sauté add your stock, a pinch of thyme then toss in a little feta.
Need some better tips on how to make this? Watch this video!
NOTES:
- If you are Paleo, Whole30 or on any other eating program that restricts dairy, simply omit the feta. The flavor is still fabulous!
- Fresh or frozen (unthawed or thawed) works, just increase the cooking time a bit if working with frozen.
- Add more veggies! Carrots, broccoli, leeks are a few that come to mind.
To healthy and flavorful food!
Clink!
Kathi
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Cauliflower Rice with Feta and Mushrooms
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 cups cremini mushrooms sliced or quartered
- 1 cup onion diced
- 3 cloves garlic chopped
- 4 cups cauliflower rice fresh or frozen (does not need to be thawed if frozen)
- 1/2 cup chicken or vegetable stock low sodium
- 1/4 cup feta cheese crumbled
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black ground pepper
Instructions
- In large skillet heat olive oil.
- Add mushrooms and onion, sauté until onions are translucent. About 3-4 minutes.
- Add garlic, cauliflower rice, salt and pepper.
- Saute until cauliflower is slightly tender. About 5 minutes.
- Add stock and thyme.
- Continue to cook until cauliflower rice is fully tender and most of the liquid has been absorbed. About 5 minutes.
- Add feta and taste. More salt? pepper? thyme?.
- Garnish with additional thyme and a bit more feta if desired.
Nutrition
Martha says
Love this recipe! It was the first time cooking cauliflower-rice and it was fantastic! Even without the cheese, it has wonderful flavour! I doubled the recipe because I had 2 heads of cauliflower to use up and it turned out great! Will definitely be adding this recipe to my “faves” list.
Jennifer Rey says
This was great! Would serve to guests, it was that good. One of the most flavorful vegetable side dish. Will take leftovers for lunch.
Lauri Yoe says
I can’t tell you how pleasantly surprised I was at how delicious this was! I used the cauliflower rice from Costco, and I did add spinach and wilted at the end. I didn’t have Thyme, so I skipped it. The first plate full I had (I used as an entree), I put a little hot sauce on to give it a little kick, and some flavor. Totally didn’t need added flavor. The second plate I had I didn’t use hot sauce. It was so good, I over ate. Almost used Parmesan cheese instead of Feta, but so glad I didn’t. It was so good, I passed this on to my daughter this morning. Thank You!
LaughingSpatula.com says
So glad you loved it Lauri! It was based on a recipe for risotto but I used cauli-rice. Served it to friends, they couldn’t figure out what ‘grain’ it was :). Thanks for the nice note!
Mayra Marchi MacDonald says
Thanks for sharing this. I saved it to my favorite recipes. I added extra feta cheese and peas to it. AMAZING!!
Christin says
Delicious! Added some steamed broccoli. Thanks for a great meatless recipe!