 We're making party food today. We are making cauliflower bites or some people call them cauliflower wings or buffalo cauliflower bites or wings whatever you want. Basically it's kind of a substitute for chicken wings but it's just a little bit healthier right. We're going to be baking these in the oven and I'm going to be using some seasonings to just bring out a lot of great flavor and get some crispiness on this. I'm going to show you how to do that and I'm going to be using a store-bought barbecue sauce and I'm going to show you which brand I really like to use because it's delicious and the ingredients are very clean so you're going to love that. Alright I'm rocking Robin and I'm going to show you how to do it right after my chef joke. Okay I like to start off here with chef joke number one and number two will be a little bit later in the video. Alright this is for all you dog lovers out there. Alright what do you get if you cross a dog with a daisy? A cauliflower. So we're going to start off here by cutting up our cauliflower into florets. I'm using a an organic cauliflower here. So you want to cut out that stem first that way you get good access to all the florets and then you can start cutting out those florets. Once you cut all the florets off then you're going to want to cut those into bite-sized pieces and then once you get all your florets cut place the cauliflower into a bowl. So now we're going to make our batter which is going to give us a nice crust or at least a part of our crust. So I'm going to be using some gluten-free flour here. I'm using Bob's Red Mill one to one and we're going to add some almond milk to that. You need to use unsweetened or at least that's what I'm using. Then we're going to add some garlic powder, smoked paprika and some ancho chili powder. We're going to add a touch of salt to season it up and we're just going to whisk that up and you're going to find that it's very very thick and when it sits it gets thicker so you may have to thin it out a little bit by adding just maybe a teaspoon of almond milk as you go. So this is the consistency you're looking for. Now I'm going to show you how to get a real nice crunch on this all right. This is what to me really makes it because I like that to be nice and crunchy right. Okay so we're going to be using some panko bread crumbs. I'm using alias they are gluten-free but you can use any any panko crumbs you want and to that I'm going to be adding just a little bit of Italian seasoning just because I like it and it makes it just a little more flavorful. Now I make my own Italian seasoning you can uh I'll leave a link for you so you can make that yourself and try it out or you can use store-bought whatever you want. So I'm going to add a little bit of that to my panko crumbs and just stir it so that it's evenly distributed and we're ready to put these together. You're going to want to cover a baking sheet with some parchment paper for making this you know easy to clean up otherwise you're going to have a lot of burnt stuff going on so definitely use the parchment paper. Okay you're going to want to preheat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit and now is where it gets a little messy. We're going to take our cauliflower and we're going to put it into our batter so we'll take a handful of cauliflower and just toss it in there and just kind of coat it. I'll just take a spoon here and of course my fingers and just dip that cauliflower right into the sauce and try and coat all of it and from here it goes into the panko breadcrumbs. Make sure you coat all sides and actually press the breadcrumbs into the cauliflower so it sticks. So when I do this I like to use my left hand for dipping into the sauce and coating and my right hand for the crumbs. Once they're coated we'll place the cauliflower onto our baking sheet and make sure to space out the cauliflower so they're not touching each other. These are going in the oven preheated 425 degrees Fahrenheit for about 12 minutes. All right I think it's time for chef joke number two. Now this one was actually sent in to me from one of my viewers so if you have a good joke send it in to me and I might use it. Okay what is the tallest building in the world? The library because it has the most stories so while our cauliflower bites are cooking in the oven it's time to make our barbecue sauce. I'm using primal kitchens barbecue sauce which has some really great ingredients in there. I mean it's really clean very little sugar but I like a little sweetness in this so I'm going to be adding some maple syrup to it and for a little bit of tang we're going to add some fresh lemon juice. It's going to be delicious. Give that a quick stir and you're ready for action. So I checked on the cauliflower bites after 12 minutes and now they need to be turned over. I'm taking them out of the oven so that I can turn them over without cooling off the oven. These are going back in the oven for another 11 or 12 minutes. I just took these out of the oven so they were in there for 12 minutes turned them over and then they went in for another 12 minutes. Now you can see all the little pieces here on the tray that are actually burnt those don't taste good. So what I've been doing and you can do it any way you want I've been kind of moving those aside because I don't want them to get into you know onto my cauliflower bites because I'm going to be adding the sauce now. These turned out they're very crispy right now they're I can feel it with the tongs so we're just going to take our sauce and you want to coat these. These are they're really not that hot at this point so what I do is I take them I actually pick them up they're not that hot right now and they've only been out here about two minutes and you want to coat them with the sauce and I coat all sides you don't want to make this super thick you just want to get a little coating all the way around okay so that's what I'm going to do I'm going to go through here and just do all these it just takes you know a couple minutes here they are all covered in sauce. These are going back in the oven for about 15 minutes. Here are cauliflower bites all finished and I'm serving it up here on a little platter with some carrots and celery and of course our dipping sauces. I've got my barbecue sauce here and some ranch dressing. I don't know if you can hear the crunch but it's there no question about it these are really good nice and crunchy lots of flavor we got a little bit of heat in there not too much it's about medium I'd say with a little bit of maple syrup brings out a little sweetness to counterbalance that and the lemon really brightens it up delicious. You are definitely going to want to try my homemade ranch dressing that has a little healthier side to it I'm using avocado mayo in this so you're getting a good dose of good fats click the link to see this recipe. If you enjoyed today's video you can let me know by smashing the like button all right and leave me a comment if you have a recipe request I'd love to hear it all right well thanks for watching we'll see you back here next week for another rockin recipe