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New
Food Cookbook Chapter: Colored Cauliflower
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Purple
Cauliflower
- Origin
and cultivation: discovered
as a spontaneous mutation in the 1980s, and improved through breeding in Denmark
- Availability:
year-round
- Appearance:
bright purple color
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Flavor:
like regular white cauliflower
- Trivia:
Pigment is from anthocyanin pigments, which since water soluble, will wash out
if cooked with too much water
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Recipes:
Colored
Cauliflower with Garlic Aioli Orange
and Purple Cauliflower Cheese Soup ••••••••
Orange
Cauliflower - Also
known as: Cheddar Cauliflower
- Origin
and cultivation: discovered
as a spontaneous mutation in 1970 in Canada; improved through breeding at Cornell
University
- Availability:
year-round
- Appearance:
bright orange color
- Flavor:
like regular white cauliflower
- Trivia:
Pigment is from beta-carotene (converts to Vitamin A once you eat it), the same
as in orange carrots. If you eat a lot of orange cauliflower, or carrots, or anything
else with beta-carotene every day, your skin will turn orange, a condition known
as carotenemia
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Recipes:
Cauliflower
Goat Cheese Terrine Roasted
Colored Cauliflower ••••••••
Green
Romanesco- Also
known as: Romanesco Broccoli, Pyramidenblumenkohl, Chou Romanesco or Calabrese
Romanesco
- Origin
and cultivation:
a variety was cultivated around Rome and Naples in Italy and in the early 1990s,
the variety was bred for larger scale cultivation
- Availability:
year-round
- Appearance:
green color comes from chlorophyll
- Flavor:
this hybrid of cauliflower and broccoli, as you might guess, tastes like a
mix between the two o Trivia: florets occur in a fractal pattern
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Recipes:
Romanesco
Cauliflower Pasta | |
