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Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F.
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Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
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Wash and chop your cauliflower into large florets (discarding the core and leaves).
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Finely chop your cauliflower in a food processor until the grain is a little larger than an actual rice.
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You may have to do this in batches depending on the size of your processor.
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Spread your chopped cauliflower out over your parchment lined cookie sheet.
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Bake cauliflower for 20 minutes, remove from oven and let it cool for 15 minutes.
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Transfer cauliflower onto one or two large, clean, thin dishtowels.
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Ball cauliflower up in the towel and twist up the towel so no cauliflower is able to escape the towel.
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Squeeze as much liquid out of the cauliflower ball as possible (I was able to squeeze out about 12 fl. oz.).
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In a medium sized mixing bowl combine the squeezed cauliflower, the rosemary, Salt & Pepper, egg whites, and ¾ of the Parmesan. Stir.
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Ball the cauliflower up, like meatballs, into Ping-Pong sized balls (I used a cookie dough scoop).
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Space out the cauliflower balls on your parchment lined cookie sheet.
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Press down the top of each ball so you get more of a tater tot shape.
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You can place them close together on the paper. I was able to place all of mine on one sheet.
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Sprinkle the remaining Parmesan on top of the tots.
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Bake tots at 375° for 20 minutes. Turn up your oven to 450° and bake your tots for 10 to 20 more minutes (depending on how brown you want them).
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Remove from oven and EAT!!! (Makes ~28 tots)
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Note: I dipped mine into a little hot sauce, but you can dip them into whatever awesome sauce you want to.
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Cauliflower Tots recipe adapted from the Cauliflower Breadsticks Recipe at ifoodreal. Note: If you go to Olena’s site you will find her amazing breadsticks recipe along with excellent instructions for getting the moisture out of the cauliflower.