Garlic Butter Cauliflower Rice - Quick Keto Side Dish (2024)

The perfect keto side dish that goes with almost every meal is this garlic butter cauliflower rice recipe!

This recipe is super-fast and has all your favorite flavors in it. It has such a wonderful taste that your entire family will love it too. Everyone loves the classic combination of garlic and butter – but this has an extra spice that gives it a little kick.

Similar Cauliflower Rice Recipe: Low-Carb Mushroom and Spinach Cauliflower Rice, Keto Cauliflower Chicken Fried Rice

One Of The Best 15-Minute Keto Recipes

I’m always looking for ways to speed up my low-carb cooking. With small children demanding my attention, I don’t have time to prep, saute, and basically labor over a stove.

This side dish takes less than 15 minutes. It’s amazing! In fact, it’s one of my favorite cauliflower recipes of all time now.

Vegetarian Side Dish

This recipe fits in so many dietary restrictions. It’s completely vegetarian. It does use butter, but you can use a vegetarian option like Earth Balance to stay compliant.

If you swap ghee for the butter, this is also a Whole30 side dish too. This is the perfect recipe to make when you invite someone over and don’t know their food allergies or eating restrictions. It’s amazing!

How To Make Garlic Butter Cauliflower Rice

The entire recipe is at the bottom of this post – but before we get to that, I want to share some tips and ideas that will give you the best cauliflower rice ever.

What’s In It

Here’s what I put in my garlic butter cauliflower rice:

• Cauliflower Rice – I used frozen cauliflower rice. It saved me lots of time.
• Butter
• Garlic Cloves – If you don’t have garlic cloves or minced garlic, you can use garlic powder. The garlic cloves give it a more robust flavor.
• Salt and Pepper
• Chili Powder
• Parsley – Fresh chopped parsley has a much better flavor and, it looks really pretty on the rice. You can use dried parsley as a substitute.
• Lemon Juice – Fresh-squeezed lemon juice has the best flavor. Use lime juice as a substitute.

Topping Ideas

Another fantastic thing about this recipe is that you can add different toppings and make it taste completely different. It’s an easy dish to customize.

If you are on the keto diet, I recommend using these toppings because they are naturally low-carb.

• Hot sauce
• Parmesan Cheese
• Chopped Bacon

Low-Carb Cauliflower Rice Mix-Ins

Another way to customize this recipe is by mixing things into it! While it’s on the skillet, try adding any of these things.

• Shrimp
• Chicken
• Mushroom
• Spinach
• Fried Egg

Remember that every time you add something to this recipe, it changes how many carbs it has. This is important if you are tracking your macros on the keto diet.

Garlic Butter Cauliflower Rice

Here’s the entire list of ingredients that you’ll need to make this recipe. The exact measurements can be found within the printable recipe card below.

Ingredients

Cauliflower rice (I use frozen)
Butter
Garlic
Salt and pepper
Chili powder
Parsley
Lemon or lime juice

Directions

Heat a skillet on medium-high heat and add butter.

When butter is melted, add, garlic and cook until fragrant.

Add cauliflower rice, salt and pepper, and chili. Stir and cook until cauliflower rice is light brown.

Remove skillet from heat and top with lemon juice and parsley.

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