Would you use cauliflower stalks

I've always used all of the cauliflower. I only remove the outer leaves, I chop up all the rest, cook it and serve it with the rest of the vegetables. The same goes for broccoli stalks, and celery leaves.

Yes, i used some last night in a stir fry. I use the all the time. Peel them first though!

I’m making a low carb cottage pie this evening.
The topping will be cauliflower stalk, sweet potato, potato and carrot mashed.

I always use cauliflower stalks. Either in soup or minced up and added to rice for last 6-7 minutes of cooking. . Tastes really nice

I use the green leaf part of cauliflower along with the head, but it has never occurred to me to use the stalks. Like others, I absolutely love the raw peeled broccoli stem - could eat it all day long (probably best not to, though!?).

Yes I do.
This is but one of many of my
waste not want not learned from my late mother during the years of food rationing.

JackyB

I do all that with broccoli stalks - use the thick parts peeled and cut in cubes, and nibble them raw while I'm doing it. Can't eat Cauliflower though - may as well swallow a hand grenade.

I was thinking the answer to the question was 'only if I was constipated'

EllanVannin

I save them for the neighbour's bunnies

Blimey, I haven't reached that stage yet, eating stalks and peelings !

Why wouldn't anyone eat them? The stalks, that is. They are a good, nutritious part of the plant.

Come to that, so are the so-called 'peelings' on many veg.
Not that I eat peelings - they are still very much attached to my carrots, potatoes, apples etc. when I eat them, so definitely not peelings.

I use them when I’m making cauliflower rice or broccoli rice.
Nobody has complained yet.

I read somewhere that cauliflower stalks give you terrible wind so I have always avoided them. I will give them another go.

No. But that's because I cut them up and eat them raw

The most nutritious and vitamin-full bits of most vegetables are just under the skin/peel - so the bunnies are eating well.

EllanVannin

I save them for the neighbour's bunnies

Blimey, I haven't reached that stage yet, eating stalks and peelings !

Who mentioned eating peelings? This thread is about using cauliflower STALKS. We use the stalks of celery, chard and rhubarb, so why not the stalks of brassicas?

Try the peeled inners sometime, EV Your neighbour's bunnies may not get them in future.

I put chopped up broccoli stalks in the pot along with the florets ?.

Yes, definitely, if they got as far as the cooking pot.........I love raw cauliflower ?

I save them for the neighbour's bunnies

Blimey, I haven't reached that stage yet, eating stalks and peelings !

I also include them when making cauliflower puree.

Of course. Cauliflower and broccoli stalks are great in soups: why wouldn't they be?

Yes I will today when I make a broccoli pasta.

I don’t waste them or broccoli stalks they are chopped up and used in the recipe.

I always prepare, cook and eat the stalk from vegetables, including cauliflower. Never had a tough one.

I do all that with broccoli stalks - use the thick parts peeled and cut in cubes, and nibble them raw while I'm doing it. Can't eat Cauliflower though - may as well swallow a hand grenade.

If you peel off the thick outer skin to leave the crisp juicy inner, you can even eat the chunks raw (not the coarser lower parts of the stalk) Try it, you may be pleasantly surprised. I munch these while cutting up the rest of the cauliflower.

(My mother made us cut a V shape in every cabbage leaf - and throw away all the stalk, before shredding them for cooking. Now I just slice them, along with the rest.)

Certainly would use CS.