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We can all benefit sometimes from lowering our carbs and I love creating low carb recipes. This weekend’s edition – low-carb cauliflower waffles! The cool thing is it’s pretty easy to put a keto spin on some recipes by swapping out the high carb ingredient with cauliflower. I’ve done this with pizza and mashed potatoes. Now it’s time for waffles!
I’ve been learning a lot of about the Ketogenic (keto) diet lately because a lot of my readers are asking for keto friendly recipes. I don’t follow a keto diet myself, but I’ve seen it do wonders in shedding weight and improving the health of a lot of people, even close friends and families of mine. The premise of it is very low carb and high-fat, which is similar to the Atkins diet.
There are less than 3 grams of net carbs in an entire cup of cauliflower. So you can see why it’s such a popular low carb vegetable that can sometimes mimic your favorite high carb dishes. To me, I can always still taste the cauliflower which doesn’t really taste like bread, batter or potatoes. But, to me it makes the dish unique, and saving on the carbs and calories means you can add other items to the recipe, like eggs! Hooray for low carb waffles!
How to Make Cauliflower Waffles
To start, I create “riced” cauliflower. What I do is cut it into florets first and then place it in the food processor and pulse until it kinda looks like couscous. Can you see it? You can also buy riced cauliflower at most grocery stores now. So I totally recommend that shortcut.
Next it’s hammer time. I mean batter time! 2 cups of that grated cauliflower and a little lovin from some cheese, eggs and spices.
Depending on your waffle iron, these could take anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes. Mine took 6-7 minutes each. You want the batter to be completely cooked, golden in color and crispy. Thank you cheese!
When it’s all done, you can have these low carb waffles as is with ketchup or maple syrup…both equally amazing! I like to serve it with an egg on top for a full meal. This recipe makes 3 waffles and each one alone is only 3 grams of carbs and 9 grams of protein. Add on the egg and it’s breakfast of champs, baby!
If you make this healthy-ish feelgood Cauliflower waffles recipe, please be sure to leave a comment and/or give this recipe a rating! I would love to hear about your experience making it. And if you snapped some shots of it, share it with me on Instagram so I can repost on my stories!
For other low carb breakfast recipes
Cauliflower Waffles
Ingredients
- 2 cups cauliflower grated
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1/2 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp oregano
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the waffle iron.
- Cut the cauliflower in half. Save half for another use, and cut the florets from the other half. Pulse the florets in a food processor until the cauliflower is minced and looks almost like rice or couscous.
- Transfer the cauliflower to a bowl, then add the cheese, eggs, flour, paprika, onion powder, oregano, salt and pepper. Mix together until well-blended.
- Spray the waffle maker with non-stick spray and add about one cup of the cauliflower mixture to the pre-heated waffle iron. Cook for 6 minutes.
- Remove the cauliflower waffle from the waffle iron and make the next waffle.
- Serve with your favorite toppings!
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I made your recipe today, but as I’m in lockdown and didn’t have cauliflower I used red cabbage. It worked really well. Thank you for this idea.
I’m glad you were able to make it work and enjoyed it! Hope you’re safe!
I was skeptical because I have tried many keto waffles and failed. Seriously this recipe is amazing! Sooo delicious. It was so close to a hash brown I was amazed. I squeezed as much liquid out of the cauliflower as I could and added only one tablespoon of flour. They turned out so crispy. I made 4 out of this recipe. Thank you so much.
So glad you tried it and enjoyed! You’re so welcome!!
So yummy!!! I found this recipe when looking for ideas about how to get my 13-month-old granddaughter to eat vegetables. I’ll serve this to her tomorrow, with avocado ranch dressing. I HOPE she’ll like them as much as I do!
That’s such a great idea! Let me know how it goes!
I think toddlers have a special spirit on their shoulders alerting them to the presence of veggies. ;-(
Very good but I had trouble getting them out of my waffle maker? Really needs a topping… ideas welcome!
Be sure to spray the waffle maker with non-stick spray! Hmmm, I really like it with avocado slices and a fried egg.
I made this for breakfast today. My kiddos loved how it tasted when the yolk popped on the waffle. After breakfast, they asked me to make it again.
One of my favorite parts too! Hope they continue to enjoy!
Will this work with broccoli?
I have never tried it, but it seems like it would!
Use non-dairy cheese for Whole30! Tonight, while the rest of the family enjoys shredded potato waffes (with bacon, sour cream, chives, salsa & eggs), this is going to be my dinner!
So smart! I love that idea! 🙂
These look insanely good! They’re not Whole30 tho – no dairy allowed 🙁
Oh no…you’re totally right!! I’m sorry I’m going to correct this.
Love your cauliflower reciped