Crispy Sheet Pan Cauliflower Fried Rice is your new favorite side dish, or you know, entire meal. Easily beefed up for a full-on takeout fakeout meal!
You know my love for sheet pan meals runs deep and I also love fried rice. Not that the one skillet meal isn’t easy enough, but getting cauliflower rice to crisp stovetop is hard, impossible, takes too long. So here I’ve created an equally easy cauliflower fried rice recipe that is addicting AF.
This cauliflower fried rice uses hemp hearts, extra sesame seeds, coconut aminos and loads of flavor for a super satisfying, nutrient-packed, comfort food side dish that comes together in less than 30 minutes. Add some shredded chicken or left-over ground pork for a full meal!
Crispy Sheet Pan Cauliflower Fried Rice
It’s really the only way to eat it, and this cooking method, along with the seed to cauliflower rice rations ensures a wonderful texture and also lots of satisfying fiber, fats, and protein!
Crispy Sheet Pan Cauliflower Fried Rice is easy to make, and versatile. You can add more diced veggies, add more eggs, and if you can’t to hemp, skip them all together and double the amount of cauliflower rice.
Ingredients
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Crispy Sheet Pan Cauliflower Fried Rice (Paleo, Keto, Whole30)
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 25
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: side dish
- Method: sheet pan
- Cuisine: asian
Description
Delicious, flavorful and easy! This Crispy Cauliflower Fried rice is made easy as a sheet pan recipe!
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups frozen riced cauliflower
- 1 ½ cup hemp seeds (or you can use fewer hemp seeds and more cauliflower)
- 1 shallot or small onion, minced
- 1 medium carrot, small dice
- 4–5 broccoli florets or stems, small diced
- 1 teaspoon fine salt
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ½ teaspoons black pepper
- ¼ cup sesame seeds
- 3 tablespoons bacon fat, lard or other fat
- 3 tablespoon coconut aminos, divided
- 1 tablespoon sesame oil
- 2 eggs, scrambled (yes, cooked)
- 2 green onion, sliced thin
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400F.
- On a large sheet pan with a rim, toss together the cauliflower rice, hemp hearts, diced onion, carrots, broccoli, salt, ginger, pepper and sesame seeds.
- Drizzle the fat over everything and toss again to combine then spread the mixture out evenly over the entire sheet pan in one, thin, even layer.
- Drizzle 2 tablespoons coconut aminos over everything.
- Roast at 400F for 25-30 minutes or until parts of the rice are browned and toasty (yes, practically burnt, but so good).
- Remove from the oven, and use a thin spatula to scrape up and mix all of the toasty rice together, add in the remaining coconut aminos, the sesame oil, and the scrambled eggs, lifting and folding in all the ingredients!
- Sprinkle with green onion and dig in!
Recipe Notes:
*you can use fresh instead of frozen cauliflower rice. Same cook time.*
*you may omit the hemp seeds and double the cauliflower rice*
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1/4 recipe
- Calories: 582
- Fat: 47.3g
- Carbohydrates: 11.5g
- Fiber: 6.2g
- Protein: 26.4g
Keywords: crispy cauliflower fried rice
Julie Tummonds says
Delicious! Made this with shaved brussel sprouts, red pepper, and ground pork. Soooo good!
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Cristina says
Thanks Julie!
Linda says
Thanks for another great recipe, Cristina! Sooooooo good!!! And easy/simple. Great way to disguise veggies for the family…even cauliflower-hater LOVED it! May add crispy bacon to it next time because, um, bacon….but it’s perfect as is too (genius actually :-))
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tiff says
this is one of the best recipes I have ever found on the internet! amazing! I did carrots, celery and egyptian onions from my garden for the added veggies, it turned out so well!
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Cristina says
yeahhh thank you so much!
Dianna says
This is so good and so easy! Mix, spread, bake, enjoy! It’s a definite family favorite here.
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Cristina says
Yeahh thank you! We love it too!
Christine says
Is 1/4 cup seriously 582 calories??
Cristina says
1/4 of the entire recipe not 1/4 cup.
Hannah A Burns says
when you say 4-5 broccoli florets, do you mean small individual floret or like 4-5 of the larger florets on a big stem? how much would it be approximately in cups?
Cristina says
It’s literally just a handful of florets all diced up. Watch the video for visual 🙂
Kristen says
Are you cooking the fried rice first before baking it?
Cristina says
It’s cauliflower rice, not regular rice
Peggy says
The BEST keto “fried rice” recipe out there!!! Totally addictive! I eat like a little piggy without the bloat and guilt that comes from rice. Thank you for creating this truly amazing recipe!!
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Cristina says
Thank you Peggy!!! We love it too!