How To Make Baja-Style Cauliflower Tacos
Test cook Elle Simone Scott makes Julia showstopping Vegan Baja-Style Cauliflower Tacos.
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The sum of this recipe is far greater than its parts! Finally got a chance to make this and it far exceeded my expectations. Total Winner!!
Elle is the best and those tacos look amazing!
You look good girl!!!!!
I made this for my wife and I tonight and it was very delicious. It probably won’t make the weekly rotation just because it’s time consuming to batter and bread the cauliflower. It was delicious and pretty fun to make though. I modified the cilantro sauce into a cashew cream based sauce because I don’t care for mayo or sour cream but that’s an easy detail to change. Thanks for the recipe.
The tacos were not the only thing that looked delicious !!!❤❤
Hello test kitchen Mrs. Ella I'm so glad you are back on test once again . I miss your cooking show on test kitchen.
This is served similar at a local restaurant, but no taco (tortilla); it's great on its own.
Oh wow, too bad we don’t have “smell o vision”. That looks yummy
Just made these and they are amazing!!!!! Thank you!!
This is something I would like to make.
Best thing about fried cauli is that you get all the delights of the coating but the cauli on the inside contributes basically no extra calories 😛
Elle is awesome too!
I have to try this. Looks delish!
That really does sound good, although I wouldn't use mango. But that's just me.
Oh Elle this meat eater will definitely be making these. Yum!
Awesome that it is vegan! Wish you would do more.
I make this recipe all the time and it is my husband’s favorite. Such great flavor combos!!!
Thanks for this great vegan recipe.
Yummy!
I make a mango salad very much like that slaw, or at least the additions she made to the slaw. I use diced mangos, minced jalapenos, minced shallots, chopped cilantro, and lime juice. It is a great side dish for pad Thai.
Looks awesome! Can't wait to try it
I'm on board with the flavor profile and even the vegan part but I'm thinking, use an air fryer or just deep fry those dudes because the color just isn't there
They ran out of ideas….
Yuck. You do not put cauliflower into a taco. Gas and farting all night.
I'm a lot more sloppy on the coating: I use one hand to put them in the coconut ("the wet hand") and the other to take them out ("the dry hand"), and I do 3 or 4 at a time.
Thanks so much for the vegan recipe! Would love to see more recipes based around plants without the meat, dairy, and eggs.
I absolutely LOVE fried or baked cauliflower! But I'd have to cut the cayenne down because I'm a woos. For sure will make this next week. Thanks beautiful ladies!
Thanks for some more vegan content!! Keep it coming!
Also, these look delicious and I love that it doesn’t involve deep frying! I love cauliflower, but so often vegan recipes with it involve deep frying – and while I deeply (haha) love fried cauliflower it’s just a lot more work than I think is worth it most of the time. But roasting, that I can do!
Really excited to make these!
Baja style is beer batter, almost like tempura, that coconut breading and mango slaw, seems more Caribbean. 😂😂😂
Elle looking good and cooking good. Thanks
Love watching Miss Elle do the thang. Need to see more of her.
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Any video with Elle is a good video!
Elle is 1 of my top fave chefs on you tube, mango is my fave fruit & this recipe is perfect, I like soft puffy tacos, & ever since she did her video on the perfect baked potato I do mine that way now & I 'm Irish !
Those look so yummy!
Yummy looks good!! Thanks for not calling it something its not like " vegan shrimp "😅😅😅😅
Ive always liked cauliflower and especially roasted cauliflower but Im not a big fan of coconut. Ive added riced cauliflower to taco meat in the past with good results so I expect using a taco seasoning in the breading would work well or even use a crab boil/old bay type of seasoning
I hate to say it, but cauliflower tacos don't sound good at all. As a native Southern Californian I can attest that the word "cauliflower" should never be used with the words "Baja" and "taco". Bad juju.
Elle looks terrific and Iove her hair—perfect for working in a Test Kitchen—and if my daughter weren’t allergic to coconut—I would be making it.
I don't hate cauliflower, but I don't love it either. It's a really healthy vegetable and I'm always on the lookout for new ways to use it, this looks like a delicious option. If anyone else here has a favorite way to prepare cauliflower I'd be grateful to hear what you have to say.
The cauliflower looks amazing coming out of the oven. I definitely have to steal a bite of one, lol.
However, I would double check your tortillas. As this is a vegan meal and you did not specifically say that you were using vegan tortillas. Some companies still use lard.