Sprouting cauliflower
Sprouting cauliflower is an elongated type with green stems. The head is made up of many florets that separate and curl upwards and outwards.
24 November 2021
Sprouting cauliflower is sweet with very little bitterness. Eat it raw in salads, blanched, steamed, pickled, roasted, mashed or barbecued. You’ll know its tender and cooked when its stems turn brighter green.
Sprouting cauliflower is a new vegetable developed by the Tokita seed company in Japan in 2012. It’s a cross between cauliflower and broccoli. We are in love, and we hope to grow many more!
November 2022
This succession is the Fiorreto, its our first time growing this variety of it ever. And I think its officially become one of my favourite veggies ever, absolutely one of my favourite brassicas to eat. The stem is very sweet, and it only just starts getting woody right at the base. This Sprouting Cauliflower is a cross between Cauliflower and Gai lan. Wow, I can really taste those genetics in this variety! That stem…oof. The stem is so sweet, and we’ve been eating it in cuisines styles from all around the world. Cooking it like Gai lan, and then also like Cauliflower. Its also really delicious in salads because its so tender.
You may have noticed this week that the Fioretto Sprouting cauliflower has a different shape compared to the last time we had it in the box a few weeks ago. We did our best to harvest them a little bit earlier so they were a bit less stretched out, and now we are really happy.
You might also notice a bit of a purple hue to the tops of the most stretched out cauliflower florets? This morning I asked Dylan what this was from and he explained that its a normal cauliflower trait. And it’s a result of the florets being exposed to light, and it’s the reason that regular cauliflowers are bred to have very tight wrapping leaves to hug the cauliflower so as to protect it from the light, keeping it very white.
I thought this was really cool ~ and I had to share with you. These Sprouting cauliflowers just sprout up like crazy with absolutely no foliage shielding them from the UV, so they get a bit purple.
