You will love these delicious Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos! Crispy fried cauliflower florets tossed with buffalo sauce make the perfect recipe to add to taco night and the whole family will love these easy vegetarian tacos.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
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Simple ingredients: Made with simple ingredients that you likely already have in your pantry.
Easy recipe: although this recipe entails frying, it is super simple and fast making this an easy weeknight dinner the whole family will love.
New Taco Tuesday favorite: everyone loves the crunchy buffalo cauliflower wings, and the combination of flavor and textures addictingly delicious!
🥘 Ingredients
Cauliflower: buy the whole head of cauliflower and break it down into bite-sized pieces.
Flour: all purpose flour will be part of the crispy batter on the cauliflower.
Cornstarch: this will aid in making a very crispy tempura like batter.
Frank's Red Hot Seasoning blend: this is added to the tempura batter to add extra buffalo flavor
White and purple cabbage mix: to make an optional slaw
Green onions and/ or fresh cilantro: to sprinkle on top of the tacos and to use in making the sauce.
Flour tortillas or corn tortillas: street taco size is best.
Hot sauce: my preference is Frank's hot sauce, you will use this to make your own spicy buffalo sauce.
Butter: to make the buffalo sauce.
Soda water: to mix the tempura batter.
🔪 Instructions
- Wash, dry, and chop cauliflower into bite sized pieces. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, Frank's seasoning blend, and soda water until combined.
- Add cauliflower pieces to the batter and stir to coat combine cauliflower and batter, coating all of the pieces completely.
- Add oil to a large skillet at least 2 inches deep. Heat a oil over medium high heat until it reaches a temperature of 350 degrees.
- Using a fork, remove cauliflower piece by piece from the bowl, tapping the fork on the edge of the bowl to remove any excess batter.
- Add to hot oil and cook for 3-4 minutes, turning cauliflower occasionally, until cauliflower is crispy about browned.
- Remove fried cauliflower wings from the hot oil with a slotted spoon and place in a paper towel lined large bowl to drain any excess oil.
- In a large saucepan over medium heat, add the butter and heat until melted and bubbly. Add the white part of the green onion and cook for 1 minute, until softened.
- Whisk the hot sauce and cayenne pepper into the butter. Pour buffalo sauce over top of the fried cauliflower, tossing well until all pieces of cauliflower are coated.
- Serve as wings with dipping sauce or in soft tortillas with your favorite toppings.
🥄 Equipment
Large skillet: you want a skillet with deep sides since you will essentially be deep frying the cauliflower.
Skimmer: use a metal skimmer that can be used in hot oil.
Large bowl
Small saucepan
🥫Storage
Refrigerate: store leftover buffalo cauliflower in an airtight container in the fridge up to 5 days.
Freeze: in a freezer safe container up to 3 months.
Reheat: refrigerated or frozen buffalo cauliflower can be reheated in the oven or the air fryer. Place cauliflower in a single layer on a parchment paper lined baking sheet or air fryer and reheat at 350 degrees for 7-10 minutes until hot.
📖 Variations
- Feel free to use your favorite buffalo sauce (premade) in place of the buffalo sauce recipe.
- Skip the tortillas and serve these as buffalo cauliflower wings with a side of blue cheese or ranch dressing.
- Substitute a teaspoon each of cayenne pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and salt, and black pepper.
- Toss together 2 cups of cabbage slaw mix with 1 teaspoons rice vinegar, 2 teaspoons lime juice, 1 teaspoon sugar, and pinch of salt. Top tacos with slaw.
💭 Tips
- Be sure to dip and place individual pieces of battered cauliflower in the hot oil in an even layer. This will prevent the cauliflower from clumping and frying together.
- For best results, do not substitute the cornstarch for regular flour. You will not get that extra crispy buffalo cauliflower end result if you do.
- If you need to substitute cornstarch, use a gluten free rice flour or potato starch.
📚 Related Recipes
This Red and White Cauliflower Bake is a delicious vegetarian recipe made in a casserole dish.
My family loves this Garlic Mashed Cauliflower with Browned Butter.
Coconut Cauliflower Rice is a great low carb version of coconut rice.
🍽 Serve with...
Enjoy these buffalo cauliflower pieces in a taco with slaw and cilantro, topped with blue cheese and green onion, or serve them as buffalo cauliflower bites in a bowl without the taco shell at all! The sky's the limit with this very versatile recipe.
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📖 Recipe
Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos
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Ingredients
- 1 head cauliflower , cut into bite sized pieces
- Frank's Red Hot Seasoning
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cornstarch
- 1 cup seltzer water
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 4 tablespoons hot sauce
- 2 green onions, sliced, white and green parts divided
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 12 street corn tortillas
- oil , for frying
Instructions
- Wash, dry, and chop cauliflower into bite sized pieces. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, cornstarch, Frank's seasoning blend, and soda water until combined.
- Add cauliflower pieces to the batter and stir to coat combine cauliflower and batter, coating all of the pieces completely.
- Add oil to a large skillet at least 2 inches deep. Heat a oil over medium high heat until it reaches a temperature of 350 degrees.
- Using a fork, remove cauliflower piece by piece from the bowl, tapping the fork on the edge of the bowl to remove any excess batter.
- Add to hot oil and cook for 3-4 minutes, turning cauliflower occasionally, until cauliflower is crispy about browned.
- Remove fried cauliflower wings from the hot oil with a slotted spoon and place in a paper towel lined large bowl to drain any excess oil.
- In a large saucepan over medium heat, add the butter and heat until melted and bubbly. Add the white part of the green onion and cook for 1 minute, until softened.
- Whisk the hot sauce and cayenne pepper into the butter. Pour buffalo sauce over top of the fried cauliflower, tossing well until all pieces of cauliflower are coated.
- Serve as wings with dipping sauce or in soft tortillas with your favorite toppings.
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