Last June during Whole 30, I found myself poring over grain-free recipes. The diet never left me hungry, but I did miss certain textures and seriously craved comfort food. Cauliflower rice sounded odd, but fried rice for dinner sounded like a lifesaver. It turned out to be one of my favorite meals.
The only problem is that making cauliflower rice is typically a real pain. Most recipes call for it to be blitz up in a food processor and I really hate cleaning my food processor. However, now I’ve discovered this blender method and YOU MUST MAKE ALL OF YOUR CAULIFLOWER RICE THIS WAY FOREVER. In 5 blender pulses, you have cauliflower rice! It’s ridiculously easy.
Add cauliflower florets to a blender and fill with water. Do not overfill past your max fill line.
Pulse 5 times.
Drain using a fine mesh strainer and use. That’s it!
The best part is now you can make tasty cauliflower fried rice. This bacon + kimchi version is coming at ya next week!
We made cauliflower pizza crust last month. We both felt the same way, why such a mess in damn food processor?!? Well, you just changed everything didn’t you?! Of course you did. <3
How did you like the cauliflower pizza crust? I’ve been curious! So glad this is helpful! I thought future cauliflower rice recipes were off the table for me, ha.
I loved it. We used the recipe from a Cozy Kitchen. I bet it would be perfection with your SKILLZ. Our skillz weren’t up to par, so we know we need some work. I think we’re doing it again this Friday. 🙂
Oh, you guys have the skillz for sure! Good luck, I hope on Friday you can high-five over how good it is!
I love this idea! I’ve been wanting to make cauliflower rice… My husband thinks he doesn’t like cauliflower and will totally think I’m trying to trick him, but I have a feeling he would love a fried rice dish like this 🙂
Sometimes a little trick isn’t too bad, right? 🙂 I don’t think the cauliflower fried rice tastes like cauliflower. And one of these days I’ll try that cauliflower pizza crust and see how that goes!
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Whole30 brought me here. Totally trying this tonight. Whats the best way to drain it? Seems like the whole in my colander would be too big.
hole, not whole haha!
Hi Katie! I’m sorry I wasn’t more specific, but I updated the recipe to include using a fine mesh strainer. I have 2 and they come in handy for recipes like these where you don’t want to lose anything down the drain. Thanks for commenting and good luck with Whole 30!
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You are my new favorite person on the planet! So easy and no food processor mess! Thank you!
I’m so glad it was helpful to you! Thanks for returning to comment!
first time i tried cauliflower rice this way and it tastes amazing!!!! thank you for the easy no mess way loved it.
Glad to hear that, Michelle!
Great tip! Grated my finger tips last week making cauliflower rice – this is much safer, faster, and amazing how much better it works than the grater.
Agree! We need our finger tips, ha!
have always wanted to try it using my blender (breville). do you think it will ruin the blades though? I suppose that’s why you add water instead of blending it dry?
Hi Jaclyn! Yes, the water prevents the cauliflower from taxing the blender too much. Blend in batches if you have an especially large cauliflower.