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Recipe: Cream Cheese and Chive Cauliflower Mash

July 8, 2013 by Sparky 5 Comments

When I was a teenager, I worked at Wendy’s (a fast food chain). For 99 cents, you could get a baked potato with sour cream and chives. To a hungry, cash strapped teenager, this was one of the most glorious things EVER. I feasted many a night upon this potato. Fast forward to now, I don’t eat blood-sugar-spike inducing potatoes and have switched over to the glory that is cauliflower.

The below recipe for cauliflower mash is so simple. Not a new or novel recipe, but a strong contender for most appreciated low carb substitute out. I used cream cheese, as it is thicker than sour cream and helps keep the mash from being too goopy/liquidy.

Cauliflower mash sour cream and chive

Om nom nom

Cauliflower sour cream and chive mash
Cream Cheese and Chive Cauliflower Mash
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Cream Cheese and Chive Cauliflower Mash - A tasty spin on "sour cream and chive" potatoes - low carb style!
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
15
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
15
Cauliflower sour cream and chive mash
Cream Cheese and Chive Cauliflower Mash
Print Recipe
Cream Cheese and Chive Cauliflower Mash - A tasty spin on "sour cream and chive" potatoes - low carb style!
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
15
Prep Time
10 minutes
Cook Time
15
Ingredients
  • 1 head Cauliflower
  • 3 ounces Neufchatel/cream Cheese
  • Chives
  • 2 tablespoons Butter
  • Salt And Pepper
Servings:
Instructions
  1. Coarsely chop cauliflower and steam until very, very tender (steaming ensures a smooth versus gritty cauliflower mash)
  2. In your handy, dandy food processor (a low carber's best friend), blend the cauliflower, butter and cream cheese. Heavily salt and pepper to taste
  3. Finely mince up the chives and sprinkle on top of the mash when serving
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So easy that it feels like cheating, but it’s so tasty and really evokes the ‘sour cream and chive’ baked potato taste. My dad exclaimed that he couldn’t even taste the difference (and he’s a hard core carb addict).

cauliflower mash

I served the mash with baked haddock, beet greens and a beet cauli mash.

The “Pretty in Pink” Beet CauliMash recipe can found over at GiryaGirl.com, where I guest blogged for this amazing fitness and health queen!

Summary
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Recipe Name
Cream Cheese and Chive Cauliflower Mash
Published On
2013-07-08
Preparation Time
10M
Cook Time
15M
Total Time
35M
Average Rating
51star1star1star1star1star Based on 3 Review(s)

Filed Under: Dinner, Gluten Free, Low Carb, Lunch, Recipe, Steamer, Substitute, Vegetarian, Veggie Tagged With: cauliflower, chive, cream cheese, mash

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Comments

  1. Homeschooling6 Mom says

    November 25, 2013 at 4:10 pm

    I have a Vitamix (no food processor) if I pulse do you think it will or will it come out overly smooth? Any suggestions?

    Thanks so much!

    Linda<

    Reply
    • Sparky says

      November 25, 2013 at 4:38 pm

      Oh, good question.I love my Vitamix but haven’t done a lot of ‘chunky’ in it. Nothing too wrong with smooth – keep it around a ‘4’ or ‘5’ and mush it with the mush-stick (not sure what that thing is called LOL)? I think it’ll come out good, no worries.

      Reply
  2. Homeschooling6 Mom says

    November 25, 2013 at 4:49 pm

    Thanks so much!

    Reply
  3. Charlie says

    November 28, 2013 at 9:57 pm

    I just made this (without the chives) for Thanksgiving dinner. Worked out great, and even the potato-eaters liked them! This is the first time I’ve done anything with cauliflower besides the Normandy frozen veggie mix, so thanks for not scaring me away from it! 😀

    Reply
    • Sparky says

      November 28, 2013 at 10:08 pm

      Hi Charlie,
      Thank you SO much for letting me know the caulimash worked out so well that even the potato eaters like them! And WOW rock on for you for branching out and busting out the impressive cooking skills. I also made the same thing (sans chives as well) and everyone gobbled it up.
      Rock on!
      Sarah

      Reply

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