These vegan barbecue beer battered cauliflower wings are a great plant-powered addition to your parties, cook outs, or a cheatsy meal day. These fried guys are full of flavor without the animal products!
Whether chicken wing prices are up or if you’re just trying to cut out some of the meat, cauliflower is a great substitute. With our barbecue beer battered cauliflower wings, all you have to do is cut a head of cauliflower into similar pieces, add the breading, and bake or fry until cooked to perfection.
We fried our cauliflower wings for a quicker cook time. Make these a half an hour before you want to serve and they will be read to go!
You can bake cauliflower wings. With the batter we created for this recipe we recommend frying them. If you bake them, we suggest doing a dredging of wet and dry mixes and then baking them at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Add your sauce and then bake for another 10-15 minutes.
For the sauce we used our carolina barbecue sauce for a smokey and sweet flavor. But since the sauce can be a little intense for the neutral cauliflower we also made a cream vegan coleslaw to add on top or on the side of these bite-sized flavored bombs.
This barbecue sauce is such a great addition for game day recipes, grilling cookouts, or small amounts added to dressings for salads. You can find the recipe here.
Enjoy these recipes for your game day if you make them this year. If you make any of this week’s recipes whether it be our carne asada tacos with paleo tortillas or our plant-based cauliflower wings with our carolina barbecue sauce. The recipes are linked below.
- Whole30 Approved Carne Asada Tacos
- 6 Ingredient Paleo Tortillas (COMING SOON)
- Carolina Barbecue Sauce
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Beer Battered Cauliflower Wings with Creamy Coleslaw
Ingredients
Cauliflower Wings
- 1 medium head of cauliflower cut into similar sized pieces
- 1/2 cup vegan beer
- 1/2 cup water
- 1/2 cup corn starch or tapioca starch
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tbsp nutritional yeast
Vegan Creamy Coleslaw
- 1 14 oz bag or coleslaw mix
- 1/2 cup vegan mayo
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp celery salt
Instructions
Vegan Creamy coleslaw
- To make the coleslaw. In a small bowl, combine the mayo, apple cider vinegar, granulated sugar, salt, and celery seed. Mix until well combined.
- In a large add the bagged coleslaw mix and mayo mixture. Mix until well combined. Once the coleslaw is well combined set in the fridge while you are making the cauliflower wings.
Cauliflower wings
- To make the cauliflower wings. Heat a pot of frying oil to prepare. While the oil is heating up, make your batter by combining all the wet ingredients and dry ingredients until well combined and there are no clumps of starch or flour. This batter is going to have the consistency of thick pancake batter.
- Chop head of cauliflower into similar sized florets. Add to batter and stir together until the wings have been covered well with the batter.
- Once your oil has been heated up, drop cauliflower wings in small batches into the oil to help them cook evenly. Fry until wings have a golden color. Set on a paper towel to dry excess oil.
- Toss cauliflower wings with carolina barbecue sauce right before serving. Serve with creamy coleslaw, pickles, and extra sauce.
