WHOLE ROASTED CAULIFLOWER WITH LEMON VINAIGRETTE

This dish is worth the cook time. It tastes as beautiful as it looks! Prep time: 5 minutes Cook time: 1 hour Servings: 8 Serving size: 1/2 cup Cauliflower 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 pounds whole cauliflower Vinaigrette Juice of 1/2 lemon 2 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon dried parsley 1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper Preheat oven to 425°F. In a small bowl, mix together olive oil and salt. Place cauliflower, cut side down, in a large baking dish. Pour olive oil evenly over cauliflower and use your hands to rub the oil and salt mixture into the cauliflower. Place on the middle oven rack and roast 60 minutes (if cauliflower starts getting too dark, then cover with aluminum foil). While cauliflower is roasting, whisk together all the vinaigrette ingredients in a small bowl. When cauliflower is finished roasting, pour vinaigrette evenly over entire head. To serve, cut whole cauliflower in half, and then cut each half into 4 pieces. Choices/Exchanges 1 Nonstarchy Vegetable, 1 ½ Fat Nutrition Facts Calories 80 Calories from fat 60 Total fat 7.0 g Saturated fat 1.0 g Trans fat 0.0 g Cholesterol 0 mg Sodium 170 mg Potassium 260 mg Total carbohydrate 4 g Dietary fiber 2 g Sugars 2 g Protein 2 g Phosphorus 40 mg ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Lara Rondinelli-Hamilton, RD, CDE, counsels a wide variety of people from those wanting to lose weight to others trying to better control their diabetes or cholesterol. Her role is to educate people on the importance of a healthy lifestyle, but also to help them incorporate it into real life with healthy eating and cooking. Jennifer Bucko Lamplough, MBA, and Chef, is working to help solve hunger by working with food pantries, soup kitchens, and meal programs in northern Illinois to not only distribute meals, but to provide nutrition education in those settings. She continues to work as a cooking demonstrator, teaching people how to cook healthy and showing that it can be delicious and easy! As a team, Chef Jennifer Bucko Lamplough and Lara Rondinelli-Hamilton have written two previous books for the American Diabetes Association The Healthy Carb Diabetes Cookbook and the best-selling Healthy Calendar Diabetic Cooking and developed hundreds of recipes for the Association’s healthy eating programs, many of which are appearing here for the first time in print. For more information, please visit www.diabetesfoodhub.org orwww.diabetes.org. ABOUT THE BOOK: The Diabetes Cookbook: 300 Recipes for Healthy Living Powered by the Diabetes Food Hub (American Diabetes Association, November 2018, ISBN: 978-1- 580-40680-2, $24.95) is available at bookstores nationwide and from major online booksellers.