Grilled cauliflower with winter pesto

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Time: 1 hr
Serves: 4

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Ingredients

3 banana shallots or 1 onion

olive oil

1 large cauliflower

1 teaspoon ground dried chillies

2 x 400 g tins cannellini beans

HERB PESTO

25 g unsalted nuts , (whatever kind you have)

3-4 sprigs of woody herbs, such as rosemary, thyme, flat-leaf parsley

1 lemon

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Instructions

To make the crispy onions, peel and thinly slice the shallots or onion into rings. Heat a good splash of oil in a pan and slowly fry the shallots for 15 minutes, until golden. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside on kitchen paper to crisp up.

Trim away the cauliflower stalk, then boil the cauliflower whole in a pan of salted water over a medium heat for 3 minutes, then drain and leave to cool.

Next rub in the chilli, sea salt and black pepper, and drizzle with a little oil. Leave to one side.

For the pesto, toast the nuts in a dry pan over a low heat until golden, then either bash with a pestle and mortar or blitz in a food processor until combined.

Pick and add the herbs with a pinch of salt and blitz or bash again until you have a thin paste. Season with lemon juice, oil, salt and pepper, and set aside.

Heat the cannellini beans and a couple of tablespoons of their liquid in a pan over a low heat for 10 minutes, or until warmed through. Mash and stir through 1 to 2 tablespoons of the pesto.

Preheat a griddle pan over a high heat.

Quarter the cauliflower and char on the griddle for 6 to 8 minutes, or until golden and charred.

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