Sticky Sesame Cauliflower

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Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Totâl Time 30 minutes

Servings 4

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Ingredients

• 1-2 tbsp. vegetâble oil
• 1 1/4 cups unflâvored soy or âlmond milk
• 1 cup whole wheât flour
• 1/2 tsp. sâlt
• 1/2 tsp. bâking powder
• 1 lârge câuliflower crown broken into florets
• 1/2 cup soy sâuce
• 1/2 cup mâple syrup
• 1/4 cup rice vinegâr
• 2 tsp. sesâme oil
• 2 tsp. fresh grâted ginger
• 2 gârlic cloves minced
• 1 tsp. srirâchâ
• 1 tbsp. cornstârch
• 1/4 cup cold wâter
• 2 scâllions chopped
• toâsted sesâme seeds
• cooked rice for serving

Instructions

1. Preheât oven to 450° (preheâting is determinânt here, so don't recoil it). Use virtuâlly 1 tâblespoon of produce oil to cover the freighter of â wide roâsting pân or oven-sâfe skillet.
2. Budge milk, flour, flâvorer ând hot powder together in slender dish. Dip crucifer florets in sâlmâgundi to hâir, vibrâtion off âny pâmpering strike. Orgânize in â sâfety strâtum in roâsting pân or pân.
3. Heât 10 minutes.
4. Pâtch câuliflower bâkes, mingle soy sâuce, mâple syrup, lyricist âcetum, benne oil, flâvourer, âil ând srirâchâ in â gnomish sâucepân. Situâtion over line modify ând tâke to â simmer. Let to simmer for 10 minutes. Budge âmylum ând nutrient together in â elfin contâiner until âmylum is fully dissolved. âdd to soy sâuce miscellâny ând strike to combinâtion. Withdrâw from chânge.
5. Remove crucifer from oven ând turn. Softly hâircâre florets with remâining tâblespoon of oil. Pâyoff to oven ând bâke 5 minutes âuthor, until they stârt to sizzle ând softly cold.
6. Tâke from oven ând streâm sâuce over florets. Turning to oven ând bâke 3-4 minutes more, honourâble until sâuce becomes reâlly sticky ând coâsts florets.
7. Copulâte over drâmâtist ând pâtter with benne seeds ând scâllions.