Sticky Baked Cauliflower Wings coated in Seaweed Crisps

These are crunchy, oven baked cauliflower wings tossed in a delicious sweet-spicy sauce. I have used Abakus Foods sea salted seaweed crisps with panko breadcrumbs for coating the florets. The seaweed crisps give an added crunch and a unique flavour of the seaweeds. These vegan cauliflower wings are great as party starters. To make the dish gluten-free, just use gluten free bread crumbs. Feel free to skip the seaweed crisps.

Serves

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ingredients

Batter

Plain flour: 4-5 tbsp
Corn flour: 3 tbsp
Water: 1/3 cup
Salt: 1/3 tsp
White pepper powder: 1/5 tsp
Black pepper powder: 1/5 tsp

Sauce

Olive oil: 1 tbsp
Maple syrup: 3 tbsp
Hot chilli Sriracha sauce: 4 tbsp
Corn flour: 1 1/2 tsp
Water: 6 tbsp
Soy sauce: 1/2 tsp
Sesame seeds: 1 tsp

Other ingredients

Cauli flower: 1 (cut into florets)
Oil Spray
Panko bread crumbs: 1 1/2 cup
Abakus sea salted seaweed crisp packet: 1 (Optional)

Sticky Baked Cauliflower Wings coated in Seaweed Crisps

Step 1:

Pre-heat the oven at 200C fan. Prepare the baking tray lined with baking paper. Spray and coat it with any oil of your choice.

Step 2:

Prepare the batter using the ingredients written under 'batter'. The batter should be of pancake batter consistency and lump free.

Step 3:

Cut the cauliflower into small florets.

Step 4:

Place the panko breadcrumbs in a large bowl. Crush the sea weed crisps and mix them with the bread crumbs.

Step 5:

Dip each cauliflower floret in the batter using one hand and use the other hand to coat them with the bread crumbs to avoid clumping of bread crumbs. Place each floret on the baking tray. Spay oil on each floret.

Step 6:

Bake them for 20 minutes.

Step 7:

Meanwhile, in a bowl prepare the sauce adding maple syrup, hot sauce, soy sauce, corn flour and water.

Step 8:

In a large wok add olive oil and let it heat up on a medium flame. Add the prepared sauce and mix well until it thickens and starts to bubble around the edges. This will take about 3-4 minutes. Switch off the flame.

Step 9:

Add the baked cauliflower wings and sesame seeds, mix well. Switch on the flame again. You can add few table spoon of water if required (if the sauce is too thick) and coat the wings with the sticky sauce. Switch off the flame and serve. Enjoy these cauliflower wings while they are hot.