Cauliflower Buffalo Wings are delicious with a creamy Vegan Blue Cheese dressing – perfect for your Super Bowl party!
Game day around the Beets household means sitting in front of the TV watching football, cheering on the Arizona State Sun Devils and eating. Eating lots of snack foods, like Buffalo Cauliflower Wings and Blue Cheese Dressing.
Cauliflower is a delicious and healthy alternative to traditional chicken wings. The sauce can be made as spicy or as mild as you like – in this case I use Frank’s RedHot and mix it with a Vegan butter to make the wings a little spicy.
I am a big fan of all things cauliflower wings. The Buffalo sauce can be swapped out with Terryaki sauce and dipped in homemade Vegan Ranch dressing. There is really no way to serve these wings wrong.
Cauliflower is super versatile as well. It makes a great base for meatless crumbles or boil with a veggie stock for a delicious stand in for mashed potatoes.
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The Vegan Blue Cheese dressing is super easy to make and tastes best when made the day before and kept in the fridge as the flavors blend. Extra firm tofu mimicks blue cheese crumbles and takes on the flavor of the various spices added into the recipe.
These Cauliflower Buffalo Wings are a great way to sneak vegetables into a carnivore’s diet without sacrificing flavor and texture.
Cauliflower Buffalo Wings with Vegan Blue Cheese Dressing
Cauliflower Buffalo Wings are delicious with a creamy Vegan Blue Cheese dressing - perfect for your Super Bowl party!
Ingredients
For the "wings":
- 1 cup unsweetened non-dairy milk, can substitute plain water as well
- 1 cup flour, gluten-free works well
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 head of cauliflower, chopped into bite-sized pieces
- 1 cup hot sauce
- 1 tablespoon olive oil or melted vegan butter
For the Vegan Blue Cheese Dressing:
- 1/4 block of extra firm tofu
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 cup Veganaise
- 1/4 teaspoon tahini paste
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 450°F.
- Combine the soy milk, flour, and garlic powder in a bowl and mix until well combined.
- Coat the cauliflower pieces with the milk and flour mixture and place in a shallow baking dish. Bake for 18 minutes.
- While the cauliflower is baking, combine your buffalo sauce and olive oil or melted butter in a small bowl.
- Pour the hot sauce mixture over the baked cauliflower and continue baking for an additional 5 to 8 minutes.
- Serve alongside Vegan Blue Cheese dressing and celery sticks.
For the Blue Cheese Dressing:
- In a medium bowl, mix all ingredients except the tofu until you have a nice creamy dressing-like consistency.
- Crumble tofu into the dressing mixture to resemble blue cheese crumbles. Stir to combine.
Helen Corbin
Wednesday 16th of July 2014
Having made these upon your recommendation, I have to say these are really fantastic. Even my husband who loved loved loved Buffalo wings back in the day thought these were excellent. He didn’t miss the meat.