Baked Cauliflower Bites

If you love healthy, low carb recipes then these Cheesy Cauliflower Bites are just what you need! They’re highly addictive and a tasty way to sneak extra vegetables into your kids’ day.

Soft on the inside, crispy on the outside Cauliflower Bites are impossible to pass up! They’re a close relative to the regular tater tots and you can enjoy them with marinara sauce, honey mustard, or homemade ranch dressing.

How to Make Cauliflower Bites

Instead of breading and baking the cauliflower florets whole, these bites are made with mashed cauliflower. Texture wise they taste a lot like the beloved tater tot, just crispier on the outside.

First, you’ll want to steam the cauliflower until they are fall-apart tender, about 15 minutes. You can make this recipe faster by using frozen cauliflower which is already pre-steamed and cooks much faster.

Once the cauliflower is cooked, everything gets mashed Cheddar and Parmesan cheese and shaped into tater tot sized bites. Give them a quick roll in seasoned Panko bread crumbs and bake until they reach golden brown perfection.

Now, would be a good time to mention the necessity of doubling the batch, because hot, cheesy, bite-size foods don’t last long with kids around.

Are Cauliflower Bites Gluten-Free?

Thanks to gluten-free panko breadcrumbs these Cauliflower Bites are gluten-free and we still get that irresistible crispy, crunchy coating. If gluten isn’t a problem for your family and you keep regular Panko bread crumbs on hand, go ahead and use them. The cauliflower bites may be a little less crunchy, but no less delicious.

Also, regular bread crumbs will not work the same as Panko. The bites will come out soft with no crisp at all, so make sure you have enough for this batch. If you don’t use Panko that often, no worries I’ve got many kid-favorite recipes like Salmon Nuggets and some epic fish tacos that will convert you to Panko.

Kid-Friendly Cauliflower Recipe

This recipe is excellent served as an appetizer for parties or side dish and kid’s love them for their crispy, cheesy goodness. That’s another reason we LOVE cauliflower around here! It gives kid-favorite recipes an extra boost of nutrition while keeping everything low carb for us adults.

Sometimes the way you serve a vegetable can be the difference between a child loving it or a child refusing to even try it. Kids who turn up their noses at steamed cauliflower just might be begging for MORE of these cheese, crunchy cauli bites.

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Best Seasonings for Cauliflower Bites

When it comes to seasoning these bites, I like to leave that up to you. Here’s a list of things I’ve already tried or plan to try in future batches:

• Italian seasoning
• Cajun/Creole seasoning- if you like spice
• Taco Seasoning- For all my taco fanatics
• Any combo you enjoy- garlic & oregano, lemon pepper & dill, you fill in the blank ________.

Easy Cauliflower Recipes

We couldn’t make those family-favorite recipes like Shrimp Fried Rice or Burrito Bowls, Kickstart approved without cauliflower.

• Chicken & Sausage Jambalaya
• Buffalo Cauliflower Bites 
• Low carb Pizza Crusts
• Egg Roll in a Bowl

Due to its versatility, you can use cauliflower rice for regular rice in your favorite stir fry recipe or roast/mash it instead of regular potatoes. Here are a few of our favorite ways to use cauliflower:

What are some of your favorite recipes with cauliflower? Are there any other recipes you’d like to see made low carb?