Mock Mashed Potatoes - kidney friendly

[okarol]

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

[monrein]

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.

[Rerun]

Sorry,

                       

[monrein]

Sorry you didn't enjoy that Rerun.   

[jbeany]

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.

[renalwife]

 
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).