Loaded ‘Cheese, Chives & Bacon Baked Potato’ salad - low carb version

 Who loves potato salad? It is the one comfort 'grain' based food that I miss but thankfully there is always ways to adapt one's favorite recipes to a healthier low carb alternative! 

Meet the 'Faux' Loaded Cheese, Chives and Bacon Baked Potato!

Now the original recipe I found that inspired this said to 'steam' the cauliflower however I found the texture of that method less than desirable - not a fan of steamed cauliflower! 

So I roast mine! Cut them into bite size pieces. Toss with some extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and black pepper and roast for 20-30 minutes on 400F until they are tender and start to get some caramelized edges. Let cool.

While the cauliflower is cooling chop up your favorite veggies - either traditional potato salad veggies or I like a lot of colour so to mine I have added 1/4 cup each of onion, chives, celery, shredded carrots, red pepper from my garden and radish. I have also chopped up 4 slices of crispy bacon!

Now for my potato salad sauce I love the quick and easy spice blend from Epicure ...just need 2 tablespoons and add in 1/2 cup of mayo and 1/2 cup of plain Greek Yogurt! Mix well!

It looks and tastes AMAZING!!!! And swapping out the Potatoes for Cauliflower lowers the carb count and insulin reaction considerable so I can enjoy this tonight with a nice BBQ pork chop guilty free!

 

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