🌿 Cauliflower Agrodolce

How to make Agrodolce Sauce + Cauliflower Roasting Mantra

Agrodolce is a famous Italian sauce punctuated by its agro (sour) and dolce (sweet) flavour. It is sticky and tart and jammy. Just like life. An Agrodolce Life! Sweet and sour and delicious with all its sticky, messy bits.

Agrodolce is made by reducing sugar or honey with vinegar and sweet dried fruit like currants, and cherries into a perfectly balanced tart concoction that is exquisite for coating roasted veggies.

And although onion, pumpkin, sweet potato are roasted veg gold, I am not so sure that they belong with agrodolce. You see, the sweetness of this gorgeous condiment needs a deep savouriness to balance all the sugar. And what is more savoury in the roast vegetable department than cauliflower? A Cauliflower Agrodolce is the perfect symphony of textures, flavours and mouthfeel. This is a truly easy and divine dish, made for sharing!

I’ve been testing agrodolce sauce and agrodolce relish for various projects and thought that an agrodolce salad dressing might be lovely to have on hand. Hence this recipe was born. This sticky, sweet, sour and tart warm dressing (yes, it is cooked!) is perfect for all the warm salads you might want to make. Cauliflower is most definitely the favourite to take this glamorous dressing out for a spin.

And if you haven’t yet, you must try my recent warm salads,

Cabbage & Potato Baked Salad, Spicy Fried Potato Salad, Healthy Dill Potato Salad, Buttery Mexican Corn Salad, Taco Rice Salad, Corn Chaat and Brown Rice Biryani Salad.

Roasting Cauliflower

I have shared so many different techniques and ways of roasting cauliflower here on Live More Veg - Air-Fried, Wok-Fried and Oven Baked. But today’s recipe has another clever little trick for maximizing caramelization.