How to Make Cauliflower Rice at Home

Homemade riced cauliflower is the perfect substitute and solution that fits into almost any diet.

Whether you’re meal prepping, cutting back on calories, or just want a veggie-packed side dish, learning how to rice cauliflower is a kitchen skill worth mastering and believe it or not super easy.

It’s quick, budget-friendly, and can be made fresh or frozen for later use.

In this guide, I’ll show you how to make riced cauliflower at home with or without a food processor, plus tips for storage, cooking, and how to avoid a soggy result.

Let’s turn this humble vegetable into a weeknight staple!

I also love using my mashed potato cauliflower recipe and when in a hurry, even eating it riced with just a quick saute with a little soy sauce on it.

I am sure you will find many ways to use this versatile vegetable riced and have the same experience our family had with being pleasantly surprised how delicious it is.

Here are two great recipes below with how to rice the cauliflower in a step by step detail today.

Scroll down to my printable recipe card and find out how to rice this cauliflower along with two special easy recipes!

Why Make This Recipe?

1. Cost-Effective: Making it yourself is cheaper than buying pre-packaged cauliflower rice from the store.
2. Takes Just 5 Minutes: All you need is a head of cauliflower and a grater or food processor.
3. Make ahead of time: Batch prep and store for busy weeknights.
4. Customizable: Add herbs, garlic, lemon zest, or even parmesan cheese to flavor it your way.

Tips for Making Perfect Cauliflower Rice

1. Don’t skip drying; Excess water leads to soggy rice.
   Use firm, fresh cauliflower – Avoid limp or browning heads.
2. Cook in small batches; Overcrowding the pan leads to steaming, not sautéing.
3. Flavor it up; Garlic, onion powder, curry, or soy sauce go a long way.Sake will keep up to 1 year opened stored in the refrigerator
4. Sake; Only use Sake made in Japan
5. Vegetables; substitute any kinds of veggies your family prefers
6. Cauliflower rice; stored in the freezer for 1-month blot dry before using. Fridge: Store raw cauliflower rice in an airtight container for up to 3 days
7. No precooking; Do not ever precook cauliflower, this is always to be used raw
8. Freeze in portions; Use zip freezer bags and remove as much air as possible before freezing.

Additions Suggestions:

• Cauliflower Fried Rice; Add peas, carrots, scrambled eggs, and soy sauce.
• Garlic Parmesan Cauliflower Rice; Stir in minced garlic and freshly grated parmesan.
• Lemon Herb Cauliflower Rice; Finish with fresh lemon juice and chopped parsley.
• thinly chopped
• bok choy or cabbage
  medallion
• cut sweet potatoes or carrots
• peas
• thinly sliced onion
• corn
• mushrooms
• sauteed boneless chicken breast or another boneless cooked meat of choice
  sauteed shrimp or other seafood

Shopping List

for exact measurements scroll down to the printable recipe card

Japanese Steakhouse Cauliflower Rice

• riced cauliflower kept raw not cooked (or use cooked long-grain rice) 
• large eggs
• soy sauce
• teriyaki
• sauce
• peanut or vegetable oil
• sake
• butter
• cloves garlic
• salt, pepper
• gomasio usually found in the international aisle ( if you can find this just add a teaspoon of honey to the cauliflower or rice it is a combination of sugar, sea salt, seaweed and sesame seeds)
  Optional: carrots, thinly shaved and diced ( you can also add some fresh or frozen peas for color)

Shopping List for Cauliflower Italian Rice

• cauliflower, trimmed and riced
  whole tomatoes squeezed by hand into a large bowl leaving chunks with juice
• tomato sauce
• sliced thin bell or hot peppers
• garlic cloves, minced
• fresh basil leaves
• dried oregano
  salt, pepper and cayenne pepper to taste
• olive oil
• Optional: grated Pecorino Romano Cheese or low moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese shredded

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Our Final Thoughts

Making riced cauliflower at home is one of the easiest kitchen swaps you can do for a healthier lifestyle.

It’s versatile, fast to prepare, and stores beautifully for meal prep. Once you make it yourself, you’ll never want to buy frozen again!

So next time you see a fresh head of cauliflower, skip the rice aisle and try this simple method instead.

Your healhty diet will thank you.

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How to Make Cauliflower Rice at Home

Homemade riced cauliflower is the perfect substitute that fits into almost any diet

Prep time: 5 MinCook time: 5 MinTotal time: 10 Min

Ingredients

• Ingredients for Cauliflower Italian Rice
• 1 large head of cauliflower, trimmed and riced
• 1 (28-ounce) can whole tomatoes squeezed by hand into a large bowl leaving chunks with juice
• 1/2 cup tomato sauce
• 1 cup sliced thin bell or hot peppers
• 3 garlic cloves, minced or 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 3 chopped fresh basil leaves
• 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
• salt, pepper and cayenne pepper to taste
• olive oil
• Optional: grated Pecorino Romano Cheese or low moisture part-skim mozzarella cheese shredded
• Ingredients for Japanese Steakhouse Cauliflower Rice
• 2 cups riced cauliflower kept raw not cooked (or use cooked long-grain rice)
• 2 large eggs
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon teriyaki sauce
• 3 tablespoons peanut or vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoon sake
• 2 tablespoon butter
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 2 teaspoon gomasio usually found in the international aisle ( if you can find this just add a teaspoon of honey to the cauliflower or rice it is a combination of sugar, sea salt, seaweed and sesame seeds)
• Optional: 3 carrots, thinly shaved and diced ( you can also add some fresh or frozen peas for color) add any cooked meats like boneless chicken, steak, seafood of any kind

Instructions

1. Instructions on How To Make Cauliflower Rice
2. There are two techniques for making cauliflower rice.
3. You can either use a box grater with the medium-size holes traditionally used for cheese, or a food processor shown with the grater blade to blitz it into small pieces on the pulse speed.
4. The cauliflower needs to look like small rice bits
5. Blot dry with a paper towel.
6. Next, you can simply saute this in a pan with olive oil for around 8 minutes seasoned with salt, pepper, and soy sauce or store it in a tight container for 2 days.
7. Cauliflower tends to mold quickly, so I do not recommend saving it and making it ahead of time however it can be done.
8. There are two additional recipes below using riced cauliflower.
9. Instructions for Cauliflower Italian Rice
10. In a medium-sized frying pan, add a few tablespoons of olive oil and saute the garlic, peppers, and cauliflower for around 3 minutes.
11. Pour in the juice for the whole tomatoes with chunks, sauce, oregano, salt pepper to taste.
12. Simmer until the cauliflower is softened and half the liquid is boiled out.
13. Serve with grated cheese or mozzarella on top.
14. Instructions for Japanese Steakhouse Cauliflower
15. In a large pan over medium heat, add some oil and scramble the eggs.
16. When the egg is cooked all the way through adding the raw cauliflower (or cooked rice) with the carrots and garlic saute until the cauliflower is soft around 7 minutes stirring.
17. Stir in the teriyaki, soy sauce, and the sake.
18. Add the salt and pepper to taste and gomasio or honey.
19. Serve with any meal as a side dish or you can add cooked meats of choice to this dish.

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Recipe was first pubished in 2020 and updated in 2025