Pulled pork and fried ‘cice’
First things first… I’ve been a major paleo-slacker. My husband and I have been in vacation mode for the past month, with him on summer break from teaching until very recently and me feeling too worn out at the end of the day to cook. So we’ve been eating out a lot — and 99.9% of those meals out haven’t fit paleo. We haven’t consumed massive plates of pasta or anything — but some thin crusted pizza here, some fresh baked bread there… needless to say I’ve put back on the 6 pounds I had previously lost from paleo. In the words of one of my favorite bloggers, ‘paleo-fail-eo‘. Yup, fail is right.
But last week I managed to get back in the swing of things, and came up with a fabulous recipe inspired by a pale girlfriend of mine, Kristen.
I’ve often heard of cauliflower as being a sub for starches – mashed potatoes in particular – but I hadn’t heard of it being processed and turned into ‘rice’ until Kristen told me she had tried that with success. Simply insert frozen/defrosted cauliflower florets into the food processor, turn on ‘shred’, and fry it up with some other veggies and an egg or too, and voila!
Unfortunately, I live in a 450 sq/ft apartment and don’t own a food processor (though I’m totally going to buy one after making this by hand) – so I used a cheese grater to shred the cauliflower. It’s ok, you can laugh. I thought it was funny, too.
My recipe isn’t exact by any means – I more threw things together -and one ingredient that isn’t uh, super paleo (um, soy sauce) – but I feel confident that this recipe would be fab even without those ‘sketchy’ ingredients.
Fried ‘cice’ and pulled pork
Ingredients:
2 packages frozen cauliflower florets, shredded
1 package of frozen stir fried veggies, finely chopped
1 carrot, shredded/grated
4 eggs
4 links of non-nitrate sausage (any kind will do) chopped finely
1 cup of smoked pulled pork (I buy this in bulk from Costco – not sure if it’s a Hawaii thing or not – I hope you can get it, too!)
2-4 tbsps soy sauce (so not paleo) – or coconut aminos (I can’t find this anywhere but supposedly it exists)
1/2 tsp chipotle seasoning
1 tbsp garlic
1tbsp ginger (grated)
Instructions:
Scramble eggs. Set aside. Cook sausage with garlic and ginger in large wok – add grated veggies, soy sauce, and chipotle seasoning. Warm pulled pork in another pot with some water and sauce of your choice (any will do). Serve pork over fried ‘cice’ and enjoy!
Posted on August 21, 2011, in Recipes and tagged Barbecue, Cauliflower, cooking, Costco, fried rice, Hawaii, paleo, paleo fried rice, paleo recipes, pork, Pulled pork, Soy sauce. Bookmark the permalink. 7 Comments.
Looks really really yummy -especially the pork.
It looks soooo good! How creative!
Good to have you back!
Thanks! I know, it’s been a long time. I’m going to get better at posting! I have so many recipes waiting to be shared…
What are the ingredients in the pulled pork? I don’t know if we have that at costco here. Which aisle? Is it frozen?
It’s in the middle of costco, in the shallow fridge section – it’s luau pork and it’s slow cooked with salt – that’s it! I think you could make it yourself with a crock pot and pork butt – you just have to cook it really, really slowly. Liquid smoke might help get that flavor – though I have no idea if liquid smoke is paleo or not.
If you are having issues grinding down the cauliflower, try a small processor like the Magic Bullet (I hear you can cook with it.) or any of the ones from Cuisinart. They’re only about 3 or 4 cups and you’ll have to do a few batches, but it sure beats hand-grinding. And the little bit of space they do take up can be offset by how often you’ll use it on everything else.
Love the blog!
Nice, Joey! We ended up buying a real food processor right after we spent an hour and a half making this dish. It’s already come in handy several times! How did I live without it????