The Cauliflower Pie

This dish has distant peasant origins, where with little expense they had to make up for the lack of meat. So the housewives of the time invented this dish, where with the vegetables they had available in the countryside, the eggs from the chickens they raised on the ground, and with stale bread they created excellent dishes.
The ham came from the Nebrodi pigs, so it was local.
The Sicilian-style breadcrumbs reign in almost all Sicilian traditional dishes, and could not be missing here, follow the embedded link to see how it’s done.
It differs from the cauliflower pizza, because in the pie the cauliflower is first boiled and seasoned as if it were Sicilian-style cauliflower pancakes, while for the cauliflower pizza it is used raw and then baked.

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Cost: Very economical
Rest time: 10 Minutes
Preparation time: 3 Minutes
Portions: 4
Cooking methods: Boiling, Oven
Cuisine: Regional Italian
Region: Sicily
Seasonality: All seasons

375.18 Kcal

calories per serving

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Energy 375.18 (Kcal)
Carbohydrates 47.51 (g) of which sugars 4.84 (g)
Proteins 19.88 (g)
Fat 12.97 (g) of which saturated 2.70 (g)of which unsaturated 4.77 (g)
Fibers 6.83 (g)
Sodium 719.33 (mg)

Indicative values for a portion of 250 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA^* and FoodData Central^** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.

^* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ^** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov

Ingredients

The Cauliflower Pie

17.6 oz cauliflower (of any type)
2 eggs
1.5 cups breadcrumbs (Sicilian-style seasoned)
0.4 cups flour
to taste salt
2 leaves bay leaf
0.85 cups tomato puree (reduced and seasoned)
2.5 oz cooked ham
3.5 oz smoked provolone cheese
2.1 oz black olives (pitted)

The Cauliflower Pie

Tools

What we need to make

1 Pot
1 Colander
1 Bowl
1 Baking Pan for pies, 10 inch
1 Oven
Piping bag

Steps

Let’s go to the kitchen

Choose a nice fresh cauliflower, it can be of any kind, from white to green or purple. Remove the outer leaves, and trim it. Wash it in plenty of water, changing it several times.
In a pot, bring water to a boil with a pinch of salt and the bay leaves.
As soon as the water boils, add the cauliflower florets, cover and let cook for 10 minutes.
Drain and leave it in the colander
After the time, drain it, and leave it in the colander
In the meantime, prepare the Sicilian-style seasoned breadcrumbs click here for the recipe.
Once the cauliflower has cooled, add the eggs
and the flour, and the Sicilian-style seasoned breadcrumbs
Mix until the cauliflower has absorbed everything.
Preheat the convection oven to 375°F
Place parchment paper in the baking pan or use a non-stick spray,
and line the base of the pan with the mixture, also raising the edges by at least 0.4 inches to accommodate the filling.
Bake the pie base for 20 minutes.
After the time, take the pan out of the oven and sprinkle the base with seasoned tomato puree.
cooked ham,
The olives and the smoked provolone cheese.
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Switch the oven to grill at 400°F and bake for just 5 minutes
The Cauliflower Pie is ready to be served.