Freezing & Making Cauliflower Rice

I’m a believer of the cauliflower rice. I love it so much that I can’t get enough of it. When you’re trying to be healthier and all you want to do is carb load, this is your number one savior. Since I’m doing the Whole 30 diet this month I’m striving to come up with different ways to recreate my favorite meals and with me being Filipino anything with a side of rice is heaven on earth for me. I saw a pack of cauliflower rice at Costco in the refrigerator section going for approximately $ 4.00 for 2lbs (32 oz.). I saw that price and I knew that I could out do it. Sure enough, I totally did. At the 99 cent store, I bought 3 huge heads of cauliflower for $3 dollars and created 9 zip lock bags of 2 cups of cauliflower rice each (144 oz.).  That’s 4.5 times more than the store bought rice!   If I bought that amount in the pre-packaged Costco version I would've spent $18.00 instead of just $3.00! It’s so easy to make and so worth saving the extra money on this. 

WHAT YOU NEED

• Food processor w/ shredder attachment ( you may also use a hand grater)
• Head of cauliflower
• Zip lock bags ( I used the sandwich sized bags)

DIRECTIONS

1. Wash, trim and chop your cauliflower heads. I try to take off the green parts of the stems and leave everything else. I trim all of the imperfections that I see on the cauliflower heads as well. Once all trimmed, I chop my cauliflower head to pieces that will fit in my food processor.
   
   
   
   
2. Once the cauliflower is ready to shred place in the food processor with the shredding attachment and shred.
   
3. Once shredded place spoon your cauliflower rice into zip lock bags ensuring that all the air is taken out of the bag. Make sure that you flatten your bags out so that they lay flat in the freezer.
   
4. Store cauliflower rice in the freezer. Rice is good for 6 months in the freezer.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Thawing out your rice, place in fridge overnight on a plate for it to thaw out prior to cooking.

Creating your own cauliflower rice is so simple! This process is a messy process, but it’s worth it. Storing them in the sandwich size zip lock bags allows me to perfectly portion out the servings that my family needs. Now, I’ve created them for easy weeknight dinners, meal prep, saved a ton of money and time. It doesn’t get any better than that. I don’t think I will ever buy the pre-packaged rice since I know how easy it is to make it myself. My favorite recipes for this rice are the “fried ice” and the garlic rice. I can’t wait to create more rice recipes. Stay tuned on some delicious cauliflower rice ideas.