Flamin Hot Buffalo Cauliflower Bites
Air fried/baked cauliflower bites coated with spicy buffalo sauce and hint of tandoori masala, crisped up using flamin hot cheetos crumbs!
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1 Medium Cauliflower cut into florets, as dry as possible!
- 3 tsp Tandoori Masala
- 1 cup Chickpea flour
- 4 tbsp Salted Butter oil to make it vegan
- 1 tsp Garlic Powder
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ cup Frank's RedHot Original Red Hot Sauce
- ¼ cup Buffalo Sauce
- ¼ tsp Tabasco Sauce
- 2 cup Flamin Hot Cheetos Crumbs
Instructions
- Preheat an air fryer or an oven on 375° F.
- Mix 1 cup of chickpea flour, 4-5 tbsp of salted/melted butter (or oil if making it vegan) and 3 tsp of tandoori masala, 1 tsp of garlic powder and ½ tsp of salt in a big wide bowl. Mix well.
- Add little water at a time to the chickpea flour mix and smooth it out until you get to pancake like consistency.
- Coat cauliflower florets evenly with chickpea tandoori batter.
- Air fry the coated cauliflower florets on 375° F for 8-9 minutes or bake them on 375°F for 15 minutes. Shaking them once or twice in the middle. Do not over crowd the air fryer tray ot baking tray. If making a lot of it, air fry or bake them in couple of batches.
- While the florets are air frying/baking, mix hot sauce, bufalo sauce and tabasco sauce in a wide bowl. Keep it aside.
- Process flamin hot cheetos in a food processor until you get breadcrumbs like consistency. You can use regular cheetos if you prefer not spicy. Keep it aside.
- Once the florets are air fried/baked first time around, take them out and keep it aside for 5-7 minutes to cool it down a little.
- Once the florets are cooled down a little, coat them first with the hot sauce mix.
- Them coat them with the cheetos crumbs.
- Air fry them again on 400° F for 5-6 minutes or bake them for 10 minutes. Shaking them in the middle.
- Once done air frying/baking, serve them hot with side of vegan or regular ranch dressing, celery and carrots!
