Rasika, an immensely popular Indian restaurant here in D.C., offers a cauliflower bezule on its menu, but it’s not something I can eat because it contains egg and is therefore not vegan. Also, the Rasika version – like all bezules vegetarian and otherwise – is deep fried, which, in my kitchen, is okay for a rainy day, but not every day. So when I made this recipe, I baked the cauliflower instead of deep frying it: an easy choice because cauliflower roasts up beautifully. Also, the cauliflower florets, after frying (or roasting, in my case) are stir-fried once more with curry leaves, so that helps further with making this dish fresh and flavorful. The deep frying is completely dispensable. For this bezule, make sure your cauliflower florets are chunky enough that they’ll hold up to the roasting and the sauteeing. Making the cauliflower pieces too small will end up in mushy cauliflower and you definitely don’t want that. Besides the cauliflower, the ingredient dish is impeccably simple: cornstarch, ginger, garlic, paprika, and a few curry leaves. Thanks for all of your lovely messages and well wishes and hugs for our new kid, Leo. He sends a friendly “woof” and a wag of his jaunty tail back at you. By now he has made himself completely comfortable in his new home. He is picking up on potty training rather well, already reducing the need to crate him when he’s in the house. On Sunday and Monday, the first two days after he came home, he was terrified about the stairs in the house and to the backyard, having never encountered steps before, but with Lily encouraging him, he’s already mastered those and runs up and down and around the house and backyard all day, his tail up high and wagging. His latest project is to try and climb into our bed which is rather high – something we aren’t encouraging him to do because he isn’t potty trained yet. But I have a feeling we are in a losing battle. 🙂 Check to get new recipe updates by email.
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