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Guest recipe: Chefs in Schools Jerk cauliflower (ve)
A tasty, flavourful side dish or why not add it to your salad bar for something different. Portion sizes relate to a child of secondary school age, please amend to suit your needs.
Chefs in schools is a solutions-focused charity on a mission to transform the food children eat and their understanding of it. Working directly in schools, they train and inspire kitchen teams, improve the quality of school food, and embed food education into the school day. Their chefs don't just cook – they teach, mentor, and champion scratch cooking, with a focus on seasonal, sustainable ingredients.
Ingredients
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130 gspring onions
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12.5 mloil
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25 gfresh thyme leaves or 5g dried thyme
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25 ggarlic
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4 gscotch bonnet chilli deseeded
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3 gred chillies deseeded
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1.5 gallspice
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15 gdark brown sugar
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7 gground cinnamon
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7 gground nutmeg
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4 gground ginger
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4 gblack pepper
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13 mlfresh lime juice
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13 mlorange juice
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27 mlwhite distilled vinegar
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27 mltamari (gluten-free soy sauce)
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800 gcauliflower cut into florets
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140 gtinned green lentils drained weight
Instructions
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In a food processor, blend the spring onion, oil, thyme, garlic, and chillies to a paste.
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Add the sugar and continue blending.
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Add the spices, lime juice, orange juice, vinegar, and tamari and blend until combined.
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Put the cauliflower florets into a bowl and marinate in the jerk sauce for at least one hour, or for maximum flavour you can leave overnight in the fridge.
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Roast the cauliflower in the oven at 180°C for 20-30 minutes or until the cauliflower is cooked. Add the lentils to the cauliflower and return to the oven for 5 minutes, and then serve. This can be served hot or cold.
Notes
Top tip: this makes a side portion, perfect for serving as part of a salad bar. To make it into a main course, increase the cooked lentils to 100g per portion.
Key facts per serving:
Fibre: 3.9g
Protein: 4g
Saturated fat: 0.5g
Other nutrition facts: contains iron, zinc & calcium
Allergens: soya
Carbon rating: 0.13kg, very low carbon (A rated)
