Cut the carbs and greasy take-out and still get your chicken fried rice fix with this 25-minute chicken cauliflower fried rice recipe. Cauliflower fried rice is a delicious, easy, and healthy fried rice substitute!
Guys, I’m really excited to share this Chicken Cauliflower Fried Rice recipe with you. Not only is it a sneaky way to add in more veggies into your diet, but it’s also a great way to, well, eat more fried rice.
Because fried rice is pretty awesome, if you ask me.
While you could make your typical fried rice more healthy just by subbing brown rice for white rice, I like taking it another step further on the wild side and turning cauliflower into rice.
I know, I’m quite wild. Watch out.
But I adore cauliflower recipes and this cauliflower fried rice recipe is one of my faves. And, since I didn’t want to make just a delicious side dish, I paired the cauliflower fried rice with chicken and ta-dah – chicken stir fry with cauliflower rice.
You have absolutely no reason to wait for cheat days to enjoy chicken fried rice if you combine the chicken with the low carb fried rice because the chicken and cauliflower rice is clean, healthy, low-calorie, and low carb.
Amazeballs!
So, next time you’re thinking about ordering take out fried rice, try this 25-minute chicken cauliflower fried rice and skip all the unnecessary grease, carbs, and money.
If you never made cauliflower rice before, you’re probably wondering how the amazing cauliflower can turn into rice? Or how to make cauliflower fried rice. Well, let me start by telling you the process of making cauliflower fried rice involves only 2 simple steps. Woot! You basically break raw cauliflower into tiny, rice-size pieces and then cook them until tender. Here’s how to make cauliflower rice:
Grate cauliflower (keep reading for detailed steps about this part); Cook the cauliflower rice into a pan with sesame seed oil over medium-high heat.How long to cook cauliflower rice – until it’s tender, approximately 5-8 minutes.
What to do with cauliflower rice – try cauliflower rice recipes with chicken like my chicken cauliflower fried rice. I like to add diced chicken and scrambled egg into this chicken cauliflower fried rice recipe, but you can easily just leave those out if you’re looking to keep it vegan or go vegetarian. Both are good, but I prefer mine with the chicken and egg.
There are a few more options you can try if the cauliflower chicken fried rice is not for you or if you have dietary restrictions that prevent from following my recipe as it is right now.
How to make cauliflower fried rice vegan:
If you’d prefer to make this cauliflower fried rice recipe vegan, you’d just need to leave out the chicken and eggs. You can replace with some tofu, if you’d like.
How to make cauliflower fried rice gluten-free or paleo:
If looking to make this cauliflower fried rice recipe gluten-free, you can replace the soy sauce with coconut aminos. Otherwise, no other substitutions are required!
If you’ve never made homemade cauliflower rice before, it’s pretty much a game changer. It totally mimics the look and feel of white rice, but has so much more fiber and nutrients and fewer carbs, too.
As to whether or not cauliflower is better for you than rice, the short answer is YES. Cauliflower is basically a powerhouse of goodness.
Cauliflower is loaded with nutrients including:
fiber; vitamins C; vitamin K; vitamin B6; potassium.Plus cauliflower has 25 calories per cup versus 218 per cup of cooked brown rice. And cauliflower has 5g carbs per cup versus 46g carbs for a cup of brown rice. And that’s brown rice! Amazing, right?
Calories in cauliflower fried rice? If you make the chicken stir fry with cauliflower rice – only 377 kcal per serving.
To make cauliflower rice, you have a few options, which I’ve listed below:
Use a kitchen grater and grate the cauliflower by hand into small, rice-size pieces; Use a food processor to make quick work of the cauliflower, florets by floret.The food processor makes quick and easy work of the cauliflower, but it is easier to puree the cauliflower, as compared to using the kitchen grater. If using a grater, keep the cauliflower whole and grate as you would cheese. If using a processor, break the cauliflower into florets – it may be necessary to do this in 2-3 batches.
While making cauliflower rice stir fry is extremely easy to do, you might have extra on your hands and need to freeze it for later. Fortunately, the low carb cauliflower fried rice freezes very well — just follow these easy steps:
How to freeze cauliflower rice:
add the cauliflower rice to a freezer safe bag or storage container; place in the freezer.If using a bag, I recommend either quart or gallon size and then freezing flat first on a baking sheet so it freezes flat.
To reheat healthy cauliflower rice:
You can cook the cauliflower rice straight from the freezer in a covered fry pan.
If you are reheating frozen cauliflower fried rice, just add the entire contents straight from the freezer into a large fry pan, cover, and cook until heated through. Once fully heated through, remove the lid and allow for some of the additional moisture to cook out. HOW LONG DOES CHICKEN CAULIFLOWER FRIED RICE LAST?This chicken cauliflower fried rice will last in the fridge for 3-4 days if you store it properly in an airtight container or Ziploc bag.
In the freezer, cauliflower rice, cauliflower fried rice, and chicken cauliflower fried rice last for up to 6 months.
Seriously though, let’s take a moment to discuss how crazy awesome cauliflower is. It’s such a sneaky vegetable that can be added to so many recipes. For example, here are some more yummy cauliflower recipes you should try. All of these are great cauliflower recipes that we very much love and have enjoyed a ton of times.
CREAMY PARMESAN CAULIFLOWER MASHED POTATOESThe Creamy Parmesan Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes are a great low-carb, low-calorie, healthy, and yummy alternative to traditional mashed potatoes. Not identical but delicious nonetheless.
The Creamy Parmesan Cauliflower Mashed Potatoes have the perfect creamy texture, can be easily adjusted for paleo and vegan diets, and they are easy to make. Get the recipe.
HOW TO MAKE CAULIFLOWER PIZZA CRUST + MY GO-TO CAULIFLOWER PIZZA RECIPESLearn How To Make Cauliflower Pizza Crust and try My Go-To Cauliflower Pizza Recipe. Healthier crust = healthier pizza. Which means being able to enjoy pizza any time you want.
The How To Make Cauliflower Pizza Crust My Go-To Cauliflower Pizza Recipe post includes the cauliflower pizza crust recipe, tips for making cauliflower pizza crust, plus a delicious pizza recipe you can use to test the cauliflower crust. Get the recipe.
CAULIFLOWER TORTILLAS (JUST 42 CALORIES!)Make Cauliflower Tortillas (Just 42 Calories!) and then enjoy all your favorite Mexican foods guilt-free.
Cauliflower tortillas are amazing gluten-free and clean eating approved tortillas you can use to make enchiladas, tacos, burritos, and many other amazing foods. Get the recipe.
Cut the carbs and greasy take-out and still get your chicken fried rice fix with this 25 minute chicken cauliflower fried rice recipe. Cauliflower fried rice is a delicious, easy, and healthy fried rice substitute!
Serve hot, topped with sliced green onions, if desired.
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We’ve been living in a winter wonderland lately. We’ve gotten so much snow that Cookie can barely keep her head above it when we go outside (she’s smaller than you think). I’m thankful to have power and gearing up for more winter weather this weekend.
This hearty soup is exactly what I need. It’s brimming with fresh veggies and warms me right up. Soup to the rescue!
This homemade vegetable soup with quinoa is light but filling and packs great for lunch. Like most soups, it tastes even better the next day. Bonus? It freezes well, too. I love keeping my freezer stocked with hearty soups and defrosting one whenever I need a quick but nutritious meal.
This soup is vegan unless you want to top it with Parmesan cheese, which isn’t a bad idea if you ask me. The ingredients list, while a little on the long side, includes mostly pantry items. Every single one of them is nutritious!
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The best veggie stir fry out there! This stir fry vegetables with homemade teriyaki sauce is a favorite tasty and easy vegetarian recipe.
Ready for the best veggie stir fry? Of course that’s our humble opinion! But these stir fry vegetables are so simple and turned out so good that Alex and I are slapping the label “best” on them too. This stir fry vegetables recipe uses our homemade teriyaki sauce: it has just 4 ingredients and comes together in 5 minutes! Oh, and it’s naturally sweet using maple syrup. Using homemade teriyaki sauce makes this stir fry taste natural and delicious: instead of the over-salted and sugary teriyaki stir fries that you might be used to. Since this is a vegetarian and vegan stir fry recipe, we’ve included one of our favorite veggie proteins: tempeh! While we don’t eat a lot of tofu, a tempeh stir fry is something we can stand behind. It’s ultra delicious and worth finding for this recipe. Though of course, you could just omit and go straight up stir fry vegetables. Keep reading for the recipe!
Alex and I specialize in Mediterranean food, so we’re often making vegan and vegetarian Italian recipes. That said, sometimes we forget about how delicious stir fry vegetables are as a quick weeknight meal. Perhaps you think that you don’t need a recipe for stir fry vegetables, just throw them in a pan? That’s true too. But we’ve found in our experimenting that it’s equally as easy to make really bad stir fry vegetables without a recipe. There’s an art form to making the best stir fry vegetables that are cooked properly and seasoned well.
For our best stir fry vegetables recipe, we’ve used our homemade teriyaki sauce recipe to bring big flavor to some humble veggies. If you read our teriyaki sauce post, you’ll notice that teriyaki sauce is inspired by Japanese tradition, but it’s really an American invention. So it goes without saying that these stir fry vegetables are not an authentic Asian recipe. In our stir fry vegetables we’ve used brocolli and three colors of bell peppers, which we’ve sauteed up with some fresh ginger root and green onion. As the veggie protein, we’ve used our favorite: tempeh! If you haven’t used tempeh before, keep reading for why a tempeh stir fry is where it’s at.
What is tempeh? This veggie protein is starting to become more popular here in the US. Tempeh is a compressed cake of whole soybeans (and sometime grains like wheat or barley). To make tempeh, the soybeans are soaked, cooked and slightly fermented before being formed into a firm patty or block. Because tempeh is made from whole soybeans, it has a hearty texture and slightly nutty flavor that makes it an ideal meat substitute. We prefer tempeh to tofu because it’s firmer and has a more interesting flavor. You can find tempeh at many mainstream grocery stores here in the US. We hope you give it a try in this stir fry vegetables with tempeh: let us know what you think!
Related: What is Tempeh? A Guide to This Popular Meat Alternative
Our homemade teriyaki sauce
For these stir fry vegetables, we’ve seasoned them with our homemade teriyaki sauce. It takes literally 5 minutes to make, and is so worth making it at home! We’ll never buy storebought teriayki sauce again. It’s perfectly salted, and it also has no refined sugar. Being made with maple syrup makes it a naturally sweet sauce. Using the homemade sauce for these teriyaki vegetables makes them taste perfectly flavored: not too salty or too sweet. After having lots of Chinese takeout teriyaki vegetables growing up, the homemade teriyaki sauce takes these to a new level. No preservatives, MSG, and no refined sugar: just natural, delicious flavor.
In addition to our best stir fry vegetables with teriyaki, here a few more of our favorite fast and easy dinner recipes:
Loaded Quinoa Tacos 5 Minute Romesco Gnocchi Sauce Quick Coconut Lentil Curry Vegan Italian Pasta Salad Chickpea Couscous Bowls with Tahini Sauce Tropical Mango Bowls with Citrus Drizzle Vegan Banh Mi Sandwich Tex Mex Migas Recipe Avocado Black Bean Vegetarian Quesadilla Thai Curry Pizza with Naan Bread All Easy Dinner Ideas!
This stir fry vegetables with teriyaki recipe is vegetarian, gluten-free, vegan, plant-based, and dairy-free.
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Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Yield: 4
Category: Main Dish
Method: Stovetop
Cuisine: Asian Inspired
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Keywords: Stir Fry Vegetables, Tempeh Stir Fry, Teriyaki Vegetables, Teriyaki Sauce, Vegetarian Dinner Ideas, Vegan Dinner Ideas, Plant Based Dinner
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