These Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos have all your favorite buffalo flavors in a neat taco packaging. Buffalo Cauliflower, avocado, blue cheese sauce & cilantro make this dish a winner very time. Easy to make in just 40 minutes in the oven or air fryer!
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So I feel a warning is in place here. If you make these Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos for your friends, be prepared to make them every, single, time, they come over.
At least that's what happened with my friends. Anytime we have a dinner at my house, this is THE dish they request.
But I don't mind. Because it's probably my #1 favorite dish as well.
Why you will love this recipe
- It's easy with just a few simple steps
- It's quick and all done in just 40 minutes
- All the best buffalo flavors in an easy-to-enjoy taco package
- Avocado & blue cheese sauce soften the spicy bite
- Fresh cilantro & lime add a fresh touch
What you need to make it
Ingredient notes
- Blue cheese: If you want to make these tacos vegetarian, make sure you choose a vegetarian blue cheese
- Tortillas: I like wheat flour tortillas for this recipe
- Mayonnaise: Store bought is fine
- Hot sauce: I always use Cholula or Frank's Red Hot, but any similar type will do
Ingredient substitutions & exclusions
- Spinach can be swapped for another leafy green
- Lemon juice can be switched for lime juice
- Fresh cilantro & lime can be skipped, but add a nice extra dimension
- Panko breadcrumbs can be swapped for regular breadcrumbs
How to make it
There are three parts to making Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos:
- Making Buffalo Cauliflower
- Making Blue Cheese Sauce
- Making Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos
How to make Buffalo Cauliflower
For detailed process pictures and video showing how to make Buffalo Cauliflower, head on over to either the Oven Baked Buffalo Cauliflower or Air Fryer Buffalo Cauliflower Wings post, depending on which method you want to use.
Here follows a shorter description of how to make them with either method.
- Mix flour and spices in a large bowl
- Add milk and mix well
- Mix in cauliflower florets until well coated
- Add Panko breadcrumbs and mix well, making sure the cauliflower is coated on all sides. Then either spread out on a baking sheet and bake at 430°F (225°C) for 20 minutes, or air fry at 350°F (180°C) for 14 minutes. Whichever method you choose, turn them halfway.
- Meanwhile, make Buffalo sauce by melting butter and adding the hot sauce
- Mix well while still over the heat, until you have a smooth sauce
- Place baked or air fried cauliflower in a large mixing bowl and pour over Buffalo sauce
- Mix well, then bake or air fry for 5 more minutes
How to make Blue Cheese Sauce
Depending on how much time you have you can make this before you make the Buffalo Cauliflower, or while it's baking. For best results, let the blue cheese sauce rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes before serving.
- Place blue cheese, mayonnaise, sour cream and milk in a bowl and mix with an immersion blender
- Season with lemon juice, salt and black pepper
- Mix well and taste test, add more of either seasoning if needed
How to make Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos
- Place spinach on a small tortilla
- Add avocado slices
- Add buffalo cauliflower and fresh cilantro
- Top with blue cheese sauce. Repeat to make all tacos, and serve with a wedge of lime!
Tips & tricks
- Make them gluten free by using 100% corn tortillas, gluten free flour and gluten free breadcrumbs
- Make the sauce first, if you have time, so the flavors can really set
- If you're in a hurry - make the sauce while the buffalo cauliflower is in the oven or air fryer
- Choose your size of cauliflower bites - larger will have more substance and less spice, smaller will be crispier and spicier. Adjust cook time depending on what size you choose, cook time stated in the recipe is for medium-sized pieces.
- Warm tortillas for the tastiest tacos
- Just make as many tacos as you will eat and store any leftover components separately
- Switch it up by topping with blue cheese coleslaw
- Store leftover components separate if possible - store everything in air tight containers in the fridge and consume within 5 days
- Reheat leftover buffalo cauliflower in the microwave in 30 second increments
- Or reheat in the air fryer at 350°F (180°C) for a few minutes
Recipe FAQ
What other toppings can I use?
For these tacos you want toppings that will cool down the heat from the spicy buffalo sauce a bit.
Instead of blue cheese sauce, you could serve them with a ranch dressing or avocado crema.
A coleslaw style salad will work great to cool down that spiciness as well - double up on the cauliflower with my Caulislaw.
Is this recipe vegetarian?
This recipe is vegetarian as long as you choose a vegetarian (animal rennet free) blue cheese.
What to serve with Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos
These tacos are delicious on their own, but even better with one or two sides. Some of my favorites include:
- Potato Wedges
- Air Fryer Tortilla Chips
- Mexican Potatoes
- Carrot Fries
- Air Fryer Sweet Potatoes
- Avocado Mango Salad
More quick & easy buffalo recipes
Looking for more quick & easy spicy recipes?
- Instant Pot Buffalo Chicken Dip
- 30-minute Buffalo Chicken Quesadillas
- 15-minute Buffalo Chicken Pasta
- Buffalo Bacon Loaded Sweet Potato Skins
- Buffalo Cauliflower Puff Pastry Pizza
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Recipe
Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos
Print RateServings: 4 people
Calories: 1126kcal
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 25 minutes
Total time: 40 minutes
Ingredients
Blue Cheese Sauce
- 1 cup crumbled blue cheese, crumbled
- ½ cup sour cream
- 1 cup mayonnaise*
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice according to taste
- ½ teaspoon salt according to taste
- ½ teaspoon black pepper according to taste
Buffalo Cauliflower
- 1 medium-sized head of cauliflower cut into bite-size pieces
- ½ cup flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ cup milk
- ⅔ cups panko breadcrumbs
- 3 tablespoon salted butter
- ½ cup hot sauce Cholula or Frank's Red Hot
To serve
- 8 small wheat tortillas
- 2 handfuls fresh spinach
- 2 avocados peeled, pitted and sliced
- 1 cup fresh cilantro
- 2 limes cut in wedges
Instructions
Blue Cheese Sauce
- Place blue cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise and milk in a bowl and mix together with an immersion blender. Season with lemon juice, salt and pepper and taste test. Then cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.1 cup crumbled blue cheese, crumbled, ½ cup sour cream, 1 cup mayonnaise*, 1 Tbsp fresh lemon juice, ½ tsp salt, ½ tsp black pepper
Buffalo Cauliflower (oven method)
- Preheat the oven to 430°F (225°C) and place parchment paper on a sheet pan.
- Mix flour, salt, black pepper and garlic powder in a bowl, then mix in milk. Add cauliflower and mix well, making sure the pieces get covered on all sides.½ cup flour, ¼ tsp salt, ¼ tsp black pepper, ¼ tsp garlic powder, ½ cup milk, 1 medium-sized head of cauliflower
- Add the panko to the bowl, and mix well. Make sure the cauliflower pieces get covered on all sides with panko as well.⅔ cups panko breadcrumbs
- Spread out the cauliflower pieces on the sheet pan and make sure they are well separated. Bake in the middle of the oven for 20 minutes.
- While the cauliflower is cooking you can prepare the buffalo sauce. Melt butter in a sauce pan and pour in the hot sauce while the butter is still hot on the stove. Mix well to an even consistency.3 Tbsp salted butter, ½ cup hot sauce
- After 20 minutes, remove the cauliflower from the oven and place in a bowl. Pour over the buffalo sauce. Toss, making sure to cover the cauliflower well, and then return to the baking sheet. Pour over any remaining buffalo sauce and place back in the oven for an additional 5 min.
Buffalo Cauliflower (air fryer method)
- Mix flour, salt, black pepper and garlic powder in a large bowl, then mix in milk. Add cauliflower and mix well, making sure the pieces get well covered.½ cup flour, ¼ tsp salt, ¼ tsp black pepper, ¼ tsp garlic powder, ½ cup milk, 1 medium-sized head of cauliflower
- Add half of the panko breadcrumbs to the bowl, and mix well. Then add the rest and mix again. Make sure the cauliflower pieces get well covered with breadcrumbs as well.⅔ cups panko breadcrumbs
- Preheat the air fryer by running it for 5 minutes at 350°F (180°C).
- Spread out the cauliflower pieces in the preheated air fryer basket, in a single layer. If they don't all fit you will need to air fry in batches. Air fry for 14 minutes, bringing out the basket once halfway and shaking to turn them. They are done when they are slightly browned at the edges and fork tender but still with some resistance.
- While the cauliflower is air frying you can prepare the buffalo sauce. Melt butter in a sauce pan over medium, then mix in the hot sauce with the melted butter. Mix well to an even consistency.3 Tbsp salted butter, ½ cup hot sauce
- Place air fried cauliflower in a large bowl and pour over the buffalo sauce. Toss, making sure to cover the cauliflower well, and then return to the air fryer basket.
- Air fry for 5 more minutes.
Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos
- Place tortillas on a plate and top with spinach, buffalo cauliflower, avocado, fresh cilantro and blue cheese sauce. Serve with a wedge of lime and more blue cheese sauce and cilantro on the side.8 small wheat tortillas, 2 handfuls fresh spinach, 2 avocados, 1 cup fresh cilantro, 2 limes
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Notes
Ingredient notes
- Blue cheese: If you want to make these tacos vegetarian, make sure you choose a vegetarian blue cheese.
- Tortillas: I like wheat flour tortillas for this recipe
- Mayonnaise: Store bought is fine
- Hot sauce: I always use Cholula or Frank's Red Hot, but any similar type will do
Ingredient substitutions & exclusions
- Spinach can be swapped for another leafy green
- Lemon juice can be switched for lime juice
- Fresh cilantro & lime can be skipped, but add a nice extra dimension
- Panko breadcrumbs can be swapped for regular breadcrumbs
Tips & tricks
- Make the sauce first, if you have time, so the flavors can really set
- If you're in a hurry - make the sauce while the buffalo cauliflower is in the oven or air fryer *
- Choose your size of cauliflower bites - larger will have more substance and less spice, smaller will be crispier and spicier. Adjust cook time depending on what size you choose, cook time stated in the recipe is for medium-sized pieces.
- Warm tortillas for the tastiest tacos
- Just make as many tacos as you will eat for best storing of leftovers
- Store leftover components separate if possible - store everything in air tight containers in the fridge and consume within 5 days
- Reheat leftover buffalo cauliflower in the microwave in 30 second increments
- Or reheat in the air fryer * at 350°F (180°C) for a few minutes
Nutrition
Calories: 1126kcal | Carbohydrates: 71g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 83g | Saturated Fat: 24g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 89mg | Sodium: 2350mg | Potassium: 1323mg | Fiber: 12g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 2662IU | Vitamin C: 119mg | Calcium: 351mg | Iron: 4mg
Nutritional information is approximate and automatically calculated, and should only be viewed as an indication.
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Alison
OMG these tacos. A friend had been raving about them and now I know why. They’re sooooo good!! Thank you for bringing them into my life!
Emmeline Kemperyd
Hi Alison! You win best comment ever 😉 Happy you enjoyed them!
Katie
These are the best tacos ever! I've had them made for me a couple of times but I recently tried making them myself, and they turned out great and were so easy to make. Love the crunchy, spicy cauliflower and the cool blue cheese sauce. Definitely going to become a repeat item in my house!
Emmeline Kemperyd
Thank you Katie! So happy they turned out well for you!