subject: Ideas On How To Prepare And Boil Cauliflower Without The Bad Smell [print this page] Cauliflower is delicious when already cooked and prepared right, however they do not smell pleasant while still in the pot, cooking. What do you need to do to enjoy cauliflower without enduring the torture of smelling them while being cooked?
You need to fully understand where the cauliflower smell stems from and what brings it about. This vegetable contains natural chemical compounds that make cauliflower taste the way it does. However, when the vegetable is heated, these chemicals break down into compounds ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. This process makes it smell. The longer you heat the cauliflower, the more awful its smell is going to be.
You could consume the cauliflower raw. You'll definitely avoid the smell totally and you will not lose a lot of this vegetable's vitamins and nutrients. But if you really want to cook it, there are methods that you could utilize to have a cauliflower dish while getting around its smell.
Immediately after cleaning the cauliflower, taking away the leaves and cutting the base, woody stem and core, you could boil them in a pot of water with a bay leaf. The leaf will cover up the smell of cauliflower while it's cooking without really affecting the taste of the food. Take the leaf out when you are prepared to serve the cauliflower.
A different way of being rid of the undesirable smell is by pouring plain white cider or organic vinegar while you're cooking the cauliflower. The cauliflower smell will dissipate and do not worry about the vinegar because the vinegary smell is likewise dispelled.
You may also add a piece of bread on the cauliflower while it's boiling. The bread is going to absorb almost all of the smelly elements instead of letting it float up.
Please note to not use iron or aluminum pot whenever cooking cauliflowers. The sulfur compounds normally contained in the vegetable will react to aluminum and iron and will eventually make the smell of cauliflowers a lot more intense and also yellow in color.
