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    Creamy Cauliflower Sauce

    This creamy cauliflower sauce is a hit. Perfect for pasta, pizza, or anything else you might want to cover in white cauliflower creamy deliciousness.

    Creamy cauliflower sauce in a skillet.

    This. Sauce. I make it all the time. I use it in tons of recipes. I spoon-feed it to myself straight out of the blender.

    So it’s only appropriate that I dedicate an entire post to my all-time favorite, super adaptable, absolutely totally delicious creamy cauliflower sauce. The garlic, butter, creamy cauliflower cooked to perfection all pureed up in that blender (or food processor, because you have a well stocked kitchen unlike me even though I blog about food, say what?) is just life changing.

    I honestly have a hard time NOT putting it in every recipe that I make. If something seems to be lacking, this sauce just magically pops into my mind. Bing! Like, hey! maybe a little cauliflower sauce will help this recipe be amazing! Which is a great idea until things start to get out of control as is often the case in my brain, and somehow I find myself wondering if cauliflower sauce would be good in pumpkin bread. Gross. No, it wouldn’t. But maybe…

    Too much, Lindsay. Too much.

    HOW TO MAKE OUR CREAMY CAULIFLOWER SAUCE:

    Cauliflower sauce pouring into a skillet in two photos.

    This sauce is really flexible. It can kinda become anything.

    Mostly for me, it becomes Alfredo sauce for my noodles and I call it Healthy Fettuccine Alfredo.

    Alfredo with cauliflower sauce in a skillet with wooden spoons.

    And it can also become creamy cauliflower garlic rice. Good grief, I love this stuff.

    Creamy cauliflower sauce over grains in a skillet on a wooden spoon.

    Hey guess what? Coming soon it will become sauce for a white chicken alfredo pizza. Yeahhhh there’s a reason why I want you to have this recipe in your head. A reason that involves thick yummy whole wheat crust, this sauce, white melty cheese, chicken, tomatoes, and on, and on, and on, and on.

    Cauliflower sauce in a skillet with a wooden spoon.

    Before I launch you into the recipe, I feel like I should say this: this is not made from cream and butter and flour. It’s made from caul-i-flower. Get it? Flour? Flower? While I personally consider this sauce to be magical, it’s not going to taste like it’s made from cream and butter. Well, actually, it kind of does, and MANY of you have said how much your cauliflower-shy families loved this sauce, so who knows. I just want to remind the skeptics that this is indeed cauliflower sauce, so you can expect it to be at least a little bit, um, cauliflowery.

    And creamily delicious.

    Did I already mention howmuchIlovethisstuff?

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    Creamy Cauliflower Sauce


    • Author: Pinch of Yum
    • Total Time: 30 minutes
    • Yield: makes about 5 cups 1x

    Description

    This creamy cauliflower sauce is a hit! Perfect for pasta, pizza, or anything else you might want to cover in white cauliflower creamy deliciousness.


    Ingredients

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    • 8 large cloves garlic, minced
    • 2 tablespoons butter
    • 56 cups cauliflower florets
    • 67 cups vegetable broth or water
    • 1 teaspoon salt (more to taste)
    • 1/2 teaspoon pepper (more to taste)
    • 1/2 cup milk (more to taste)

    Instructions

    1. Garlic: Saute the minced garlic with the butter in a large nonstick skillet over low heat. Cook for several minutes or until the garlic is soft and fragrant but not browned (browned or burnt garlic will taste bitter). Remove from heat and set aside.
    2. Cauliflower: Bring the water or vegetable broth to a boil in a large pot. Add the cauliflower and cook, covered, for 7-10 minutes or until cauliflower is fork tender. Do not drain.
    3. Puree: Use a slotted spoon to transfer the cauliflower pieces to the blender. Add 1 cup vegetable broth or cooking liquid, sauteed garlic/butter, salt, pepper, and milk. Blend or puree for several minutes until the sauce is very smooth, adding more broth or milk depending on how thick you want the sauce. You may have to do this in batches depending on the size of your blender. Serve hot! If the sauce starts to look dry, add a few drops of water, milk, or olive oil.

    Notes

    I like to add a little bit of olive oil for the flavor and to help keep the sauce really smooth. Several other readers have mentioned that they really liked the addition of Parmesan cheese as well.

    • Prep Time: 15 mins
    • Cook Time: 15 mins
    • Category: Sauce
    • Cuisine: American

    Keywords: creamy cauliflower sauce, cauliflower sauce, alfredo cauliflower sauce

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