My 117th recipe, “Kung Pao Cauliflower”, an exquisite dish from the Chinese cuisine featuring my favorite cauliflower. There are so many great things I have learnt and enjoyed since starting this blog. One such thing is the social media network, “Pinterest”. Pinterest is something which I had never heard of prior to starting this blog.
But once I learnt that it is a very important traffic source for many food blogs, I too jumped onto it. I am glad that I did so. With so many lovely people using it, my recipes get good visibility and importantly more traffic to my site. And even better is the numerous delicious recipes I get to see on Pinterest from different cuisines, most of which I never even knew existed. Social media has certainly made the world a small place.
This Kung Pao Cauliflower is one such recipe which I found on pinterest. While I knew that a dish by the name Kung Pao chicken exists, I never knew how it would look or taste. Thanks to Miryam, who made my life easy with a well explained recipe. When I made it today, RK absolutely loved it and rated it among one of the best foods he has ever tasted. It was sweet, saucy, salty, spicy and bowl licking good 😉 This recipe was adapted from here.
Kung Pao Cauliflower

Kung Pao Cauliflower
Ingredients
For Noodles
- Regular Noodles - 100 gms (I used 3 pieces from a 12 piece packet of Inchin's Bamboo Garden's Vegan Noodles)
- Water - 2 Cups (Adjust as needed to cook the noodles)
- Salt - 1/2 tsp
- Sesame Oil - 1/2 tsp
For Sauce
- Distilled white vinegar - 1 Tbsp
- Tomato ketchup - 1 Tbsp
- Soy Sauce - 2 Tbsp
- Asian hot sauce - 1/2 Tbsp
- Sugar - 1 Tbsp
- Salt - 1/4 tsp (adjust as needed)
- Corn starch - 1 1/2 tsp
- Water - 2 Tbsp
Ingredients
- Sesame / Olive Oil - 2 Tbsp
- Cauliflower - 1/2 Large (Cut into small florets)
- Red bell pepper - 1/2 (diced)
- Green bell pepper - 1/2 (diced)
- Ginger - 1/2 inch cube (minced)
- Garlic - 3 cloves (minced)
- Spring Onion - 3 (chopped, white and green part separated)
- Cashews - 10
- Dry Red pepper flakes - 1/2 tsp
Instructions
- First let us cook the noodles. Heat required quantity of water along with 1/2 tsp salt. Add the noodles and cook until the noodle is fully done. Turn off the flame and drain the water completely from the noodles. Add about 1/2 tsp of sesame oil to the noodles and toss well until the noodles are coated. This will help the noodles from not sticking to each other.
- While the noodles is cooking, we can prepare the sauce. Add all items given under "For sauce" into a small bowl and mix well until combined. Keep aside.
- Now, chop all the required veggies and keep aside. Then heat a large pan / wok with oil in medium flame, add the cauliflower and saute for 5 mins until they are half cooked. Transfer the cauliflower to a separate plate.
- To the same pan, add the bell peppers and saute for 3 mins until their skins start to blister a little. Now, add the cauliflower back to the pan and continue to saute for a further 5 mins until the cauliflower is almost done.
- Now, add the ginger, garlic, white part of spring onion, cashews, red pepper flakes and saute for 2 more mins. Take care not to break the veggies.
- Finally, add the prepared sauce, turn the flame to high and saute for about 1 min until the sauce thickens and coats the veggies. Turn off the flame.
- Garnish with green portion of spring onion.
- Serve hot along with the noodles.
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Tuesday 6th of December 2016
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Priti
Friday 3rd of June 2016
I tried a few of you recipes. All are very nice. Thank you for such an easyway to cook n delicious recipes.
revifood
Friday 3rd of June 2016
Thanks Priti for such lovely comments :-)
Claudia
Sunday 28th of June 2015
I just made this dish and followed the recipe exactly. Sooooooo good!! Every vegan should have this on rotation. Although I am not a vegan, my son is. We both loved it! I served it over white rice.
revifood
Sunday 28th of June 2015
Hi Claudia, thanks sooo much for your wonderful comments... Very happy to hear that you loved it... you made my day :-)
Sandra Vungi
Wednesday 8th of April 2015
This looks like a dream! So beautiful!
revifood
Wednesday 8th of April 2015
Thanks Sandra !!!
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