Healthy Baked Buffalo Cauliflower Recipe
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This oven roasted Buffalo cauliflower is so spicy and delicious! This is a perfect healthy alternative to Buffalo wings!
Buffalo cauliflower is so healthy and tastes amazing! Cauliflower florets are tossed in spicy Buffalo sauce and oven roasted to perfection! Delicious!
Unlike some other Buffalo cauliflower recipes that dip the cauliflower in egg and flour and fry it afterwards, this recipe is super healthy! This version of Buffalo cauliflower does not contain flour, so it’s gluten-free and low-carb! It is also baked in the oven, not fried, so it’s low in calories as well!
Buffalo cauliflower makes a great appetizer, these spicy cauliflowers are so addictive! Serve it with Ranch dressing for dipping. YUM!
Buffalo cauliflower can also serve as a vegan alternative to Buffalo wings. Classic Buffalo sauce is not vegan as it contains butter, but you can easily make a vegan Buffalo sauce yourself by mixing 2/3 cups of hot pepper sauce with 1/3 cup of olive oil or coconut oil. When you use this vegan Buffalo sauce mixture in this recipe, you get perfect vegan Buffalo cauliflower!
Cauliflower has a very mild flavor of its own, so it really takes on the flavor of the sauce it’s cooked in. In this case, a Buffalo sauce!
This cauliflower is oven baked at a high temperature for a short time, so it develops a roasted flavor but still remains crunchy – so addictive!
How To Make Buffalo Cauliflower
Making Buffalo cauliflower is very quick and easy. All you need to do is toss cauliflower florets in Buffalo sauce and bake in the oven at 450F for 20 minutes! Doesn’t get easier that that :) To make the cauliflower evenly coated with Buffalo sauce, put cauliflower and sauce in a ziploc bag and shake until cauliflower turns orange all over!
You can use a bottled Buffalo sauce or make your own! Check out my Buffalo sauce recipe for really easy homemade version!
If you like Buffalo cauliflower, you will also love these easy recipes:
Best Ever Guacamole – this homemade guacamole is truly epic, you’ll want to eat the whole tub all by yourself! Everyone will beg you to make it!
Homemade Buffalo Sauce – take your Buffalo cauliflower to the whole new level by making it with the homemade Buffalo sauce!
Cauliflower Rice Recipe – the healthiest alternative to rice is cauliflower rice!
Buffalo Chicken Quesadillas – spicy Buffalo shredded chicken and gooey melted cheese cooked inside the tortilla, yummy in my tummy!
Baked Whole Cauliflower – you can roast the cauliflower in the oven whole, it looks so impressive and tastes amazing!
Parmesan Cauliflower – if you are a Parmesan addict, you’ll go crazy for this Parmesan garlic roasted cauliflower!
Healthy Baked Buffalo Cauliflower Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 head cauliflower cut into florets
- 3/4 cup bottled or <a href="https://www.melaniecooks.com/homemade-buffalo-sauce/13330/">homemade</a> Buffalo sauce
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Put the cauliflower florets in a gallon-size Ziploc bag. Add Buffalo sauce to the bag. Close the bag and shake until the cauliflower florets are fully coated with Buffalo sauce.
- Put the Buffalo cauliflower on a baking sheet in a single layer.
- Put in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
