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Dialysis Discussion => Dialysis: Diet and Recipes => Topic started by: okarol on March 22, 2010, 09:44:14 AM
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Mock Mashed Potatoes
Six Servings
From the Kidney HELPER Cookbook
Ingredients
1 ten-ounce package frozen cauliflower
2 T. warm milk
Optional seasonings: ground pepper (black or white), onion
powder, garlic powder, rosemary, parsley flakes
Note: Do not use any salt mixtures or items containing potassium preservatives. We use frozen cauliflower here because it has a lower potassium value than fresh.
Directions
Cook cauliflower until very soft. Blend in food processor or with egg beater until smooth. Then add warm milk.
Add desired seasonings. Serve hot.
about Mock Mashed Potatoes
This cauliflower dish is a wonderful substitute when you are craving mashed potatoes. It has an amazingly satisfying texture and taste. It's a real comfort food--and it's acceptably low in potassium!
Variation
Prepare the cauliflower as in the recipe, but omit the milk.
Place mixture in baking dish that has been lightly oiled or sprayed with non-fat cooking spray.
Create swirls with a knife, as in shaping a meringue.
Dust with 1 T. of grated parmesan cheese. (The cheese will add 1 mg. potassium and 7 mg. phosphorus to each serving.)
Place under the broiler until golden brown.
Nutritional Values of One Serving Protein 1 gram Calories 17
Potassium 106 mg. Phosphorus 25 mg.
Sodium 16 mg. Calcium 21 mg.
Carbo. 3 grams Fat 0
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I love using mashed cauliflower instead of mashed potatoes on Shepherd's pie. I make the beef mixture pretty spicy and it's a nice contrast with the mildness of the cauliflower.
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Sorry,
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Sorry you didn't enjoy that Rerun. :rofl;
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I've done them half potato, half cauliflower, and served them to my FIL, who hates all cooked veggies except corn and potatoes. He couldn't even tell they weren't regular potatoes. Of course, I did them with sour cream, butter and bacon crumbles, so who would notice anything else with those flavors, but still...it's a serving of a real cooked veggie!
I add cauliflower now whenever I make cream of potato soup. Lowers the calories, increases the fiber, and tastes just as good.
If you really want the texture to be like mashed potatoes, you need to press fluid out of the cauliflower before mashing it.
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:cheer:
I just LOVE mashed potatoes and gravey, mashed potatoes with butter, with cottage pie. I now don't have to dice potatoes and soak them, drain, repeat the water soak drain.... Now if I can only control my protien (I'm pre-dialysis).