Easy barbecue cauliflower wings with homemade sweet and spicy bbq sauce – This recipe is vegan, healthy, gluten-free and the perfect side dish & finger food! Please watch the recipe video for visual instruction!
Barbecue Cauliflower Wings Recipe
Cauliflower – either you love it, or you think it is just “okay”. But I guarantee that everyone will like these BBQ Cauliflower Wings. And because I love them so much, I want to share the recipe with you today.
These Barbecue Cauliflower Wings are a healthy alternative to traditional wings. They’re vegan, gluten-free, and almost oil-free. Just baked with a few simple ingredients and then dipped into a spicy Homemade BBQ Sauce.
You can serve these flavorful and crispy barbecue cauliflower wings as a side dish over rice or as an appetizer or snack. However, I think they would even make a great finger food snack to any party!
For this barbecue cauliflower wings recipe, you don’t need many ingredients. All you need is just one head of cauliflower, chickpea, or other gluten-free flour, plant-based milk (I used soy milk), water, seasonings, a bit of oil, and your favorite barbecue sauce to coat.
The sauce you use is totally up to you. However, I highly recommend making my Homemade BBQ Sauce. It tastes sweet, spicy, and smoky. Furthermore, it has no artificial flavors, flavor enhancers, or other additives that you can often find in store-bought sauces.
Anyway, if you prefer to buy a sauce for a quicker option, I recommend checking the ingredient list to make sure that it has no unusual ingredients.
And if you prefer more dips, you can also serve them with my ’cashew herb dip’ or ’guacamole’ or ’ajvar dip’ but also ’hummus’ / ’spicy hummus’ because I mean snacking finger foods makes so much more fun when you dip them. Do you agree?
But now let’s start making the barbecue cauliflower wings recipe:
Barbecue Cauliflower Wings (vegan + GF)
Ingredients
To prepare the cauliflower:
- 1 head of cauliflower
- ¾ cup plant-based milk I used soy milk (180ml)
- ¼ cup of water 60ml
- ¾ cup chickpea flour or gluten-free all-purpose flour (approx. 100-120gr)
- 2-3 tbsp garlic powder
- 1 tbsp oil
- ¼ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp sweet red paprika powder
- 1 cup barbecue sauce
To prepare the barbecue sauce:
- 1 cup ketchup 250g
- ¼ cup water 50ml
- 2-3 tbsp brown sugar
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar or other vinegar
- 2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce or soy or teriyaki sauce
- a dash of hot pepper sauce or tabasco, chili flakes
- 1 tsp red paprika powder mild
- ½ tsp garlic powder or onion powder
- 1 tsp mustard powder
- salt to taste
Instructions
- *Note: Please watch the recipe video for visual instruction.
- Preheat your oven to 428°F (220°C).
- Wash and cut the cauliflower head into florets.
- Mix milk, water, flour and seasonings in a bowl until the batter is thick.
- Dip the cauliflower one by one in the batter, shake off excess batter and place them single layer on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for about 20 minutes until golden brown, flipping the florets over halfway through to get all sides golden brown and crispy.
- In the meantime, prepare the barbecue sauce: Put all the ingredients in a pot, bring them to a boil and simmer over low heat for about 10 minutes while stirring occasionally. Add more water if needed.
- If you prefer it more spicy, add more hot pepper sauce or tabasco or chili flakes.
- Let the sauce cool down. Then combine 1 cup from the sauce with 1 tbsp oil for the marinade.
- Once the cauliflower is done, remove from the oven and toss all the baked florets with the bbq sauce to coat evenly.
- Return cauliflower in the oven and bake for further approx. 20 minutes.
- You can fill the remaining BBQ sauce in a closed jar and store it in the fridge.
- If serving with rice, then prepare it in this time.
- Serve the cauliflower wings with rice (or your favorite side dish) and dipping sauces of choice.
- Enjoy!
Video
Notes
- The dip which you can see in the video is part of my crispy baked cauliflower nuggets recipe!
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Tried and tested last weekend – absolutely delicious 😋!
I didn’t have any Worcester sauce, but still tasted great. I served it with vegan mayo as a starter 👌🏽
Thank you Bianca for such inspiring recipes and photography 🙌🏽☺️x
So glad you love my recipes and photography! Thank you so much! ❤️
Do you happen to know if coconut flour would work in this recipe? Thanks so much!
I haven’t tried it yet.
Hi!
I would love to make these wings but I wasn’t able to find mustard powder in local stores. Could I use a regular mustard or something else to replace it?
Sure you can use regular mustard, too! 🙂
This was delish, and quite easy as I used store bought barbecue sauce. My hubby who’s a meat eater enjoyed it too.
So glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Was amazing?
This recipe works well with so many things, but the cauliflower tastes good just on its own too.
Can’t wait to try out more recipes xx
Hi Emma,
So glad that you liked the recipe! ?
Thank you for your kind comment.
Much love,
Bianca ❤️
Dear Bianca, thank you for this incredible recipe!!! It is quick, delicious and healthy. I love homemade food and definitely your cauliflower recipe will stay in my kitchen for good. Those ‘wings’ are truly AMAZING!!!
Hi Aga,
Thank you so much for your lovely words?
I‘m very happy that you like the recipe?
Much love,
Bianca ❤️
Bianca, you really make the most delicious flavorful recipes! I so love your barbecue sauce here. Thanks for sharing, Dee xx
Hi Dee,
I‘m so happy that you like my recipes.
This is one of my favorites!
It’s such a great and healthy alternative to normal wings?
Much love,
Bianca ❤️
Made it today and it’s delicious ??
Thank you so much for your feedback!
Glad to read this ?❤️
Such a gorgeous recipe. I’m going to try making it tonight. thanks hun
Thank you Sara ???
I‘m very happy about that!
Much love,
Bianca ?❤️
Such a creative recipe, Bianca! I love that you use chickpea flour to coat the cauliflower and making your own barbecue sauce is amazing – always so much better than the overly sweet varieties sold at the store.
Thank you for your lovely feedback, Nisha ???
I always prefer to make everything by my own because good ingredients are very important for me ?
Much love,
Bianca ❤️