Tips On How To Prepare and Boil Cauliflower Minus The Bad Smell

There are particular vegetables that tastes good once already cooked, however produces an undesirable scent while cooking. A good example of this are cauliflowers. How can one get to eat cauliflower without going through the torture of smelling them while being cooked?

It's important to understand where the cauliflower smell originates from and also precisely what brings it about. This vegetable contains natural chemical compounds that make cauliflower taste, well, like cauliflowers. But when the vegetable is heated, these chemicals break up into compounds ammonia and hydrogen sulfide. This process makes it smell. The smell become worse as you heat the cauliflower longer.

You can eat the cauliflower raw. You'll definitely steer clear of the smell altogether and you won't lose much of the vegetable's nutrients and vitamins. If you want to cook it, there are actually techniques that you could implement to make a cauliflower dish while getting around its smell.

After cleaning the cauliflower, taking away the leaves and chopping the base, woody stem and core, you could boil them in a pot of water with a bay leaf. The leaf will mask the smell of cauliflower while it is cooking without  affecting the taste of the food. Simply take the leaf out when you are all set to serve the cauliflower.

One way of getting rid of the bad smell is by pouring plain white cider or organic vinegar when you are preparing the cauliflower. The cauliflower smell will dissipate and don't worry about the vinegar as the vinegary smell will also be dispelled.

You could add a piece of bread on the cauliflower while it's boiling. The bread would absorb much of the smelly elements instead of allowing it to float in the air.

Please note to never use aluminum or iron container when cooking cauliflowers. The sulfur compounds normally contained in the vegetable might react to aluminum and iron and definitely will make the smell of cauliflowers more intense and also yellow in color.