Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice

This low carb side dish is a diabetes friendly take on the famous Cilantro Lime Rice from Chipotle. A quick search online will bring up numerous copycat recipes because it’s such a popular dish from the Mexican restaurant chain. I myself adore the cilantro lime combination and it works just as well with cauliflower as it does with real rice.

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Cilantro Lime Cauliflower Rice

Ingredients

1 medium head cauliflower
2 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
3 tbsp chopped cilantro
2 tbsp lime juice
Additional salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Cut cauliflower into florets and discard core and leaves. Place florets in a food processor and process on low until they resemble grains of rice.
In a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter until it begins to froth. Add cauliflower, salt and pepper and toss to coat in the butter. Cook, stirring frequently, until tender-crisp and beginning to brown, about 5 minutes.
Remove from heat and add chopped cilantro, lime juice and any additional salt and pepper to taste.

Yield: 4

Cholesterol: 15mg

Food energy: 69kcal

Total fat: 5.43g

Calories from fat: 48kcal

Carbohydrate: 4.02g

Protein per serving: 1.39g

Total dietary fiber: 1.41g

Sodium per serving: 311mg

Carolyn Ketchum

Carolyn Ketchum writes All Day I Dream About Food, a food blog that focuses primarily on low carb, gluten free recipes. She has a Masters in Physical Anthropology and Human Evolution from Arizona State University and has an extensive background in higher education administration. She currently lives in the Boston area with her husband and three children. You can check out her experiments with low carb baking at All Day I Dream About Food.

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Karen

1 month ago

I don’t like having to click more than one time to get to a recipe. However, for Carolyn’s recipes, it is usually worth clicking two or three times. Carolyn, your recipes are so good. I want to make this and I am wondering if you left out the cumin. It is so essential to good Mexican food. Anyway, I am going to add a little bit and see how it tastes. Girl, finding your blogs has been a God-send, really. Without your recipes and now your books, I would be floundering in the keto world! Thank you!

M Wheeler

1 year ago

If I used frozen riced cauliflower for a short cut, about how many cups of cauliflower do I need?