Baked Sweet Potato Cauliflower Patties are easy to make in the oven or air fryer! They’ll come out perfectly crispy and delicious with no eggs needed. A vegetarian appetizer or meal loaded with flavor! Paleo and vegan options included.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
These have been one of my favorite snacks to make lately. It’s a recipe made my heart swoon with flavor love. You can make them in the oven or air fryer and they make for a delicious vegetarian meal, snack, or appetizer. Plus they freeze well for meal prep.
Think of these cauliflower patties as mini veggie sliders without the bread. The texture is spot on and the flavor is all kinds of crazy ranchy good! Plus they are healthy, loaded with vitamin A, Vitamin K, fiber, omegas, and more. And yes, they are paleo-friendly and vegan-friendly!
Cauliflower Sweet Potato Patty Ingredients
Below is an overview of the ingredients and recipe. Please be sure to scroll down to the recipe card below for the complete details and nutrition information.
- Cauliflower florets – This recipe calls for 2 cups of cauliflower, which is about half of a large head.
- Sweet potato – You’ll just need a single sweet potato for this recipe, and while you will need to peel and chop, you don’t need to cook it before hand.
- Garlic and herbs – Green onion, fresh garlic, and cilantro.
- Seasoning packet of choice – We used ranch, but feel free to use your favorite seasoning mix.
- Sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds – Tiny but mighty, pumpkin seeds are a great source of iron, zinc, and magnesium. Sunflower seeds are especially high in selenium and vitamin E!
- Arrowroot starch – Or gluten-free flour of choice
- Flaxseeds – There are no eggs in this recipe, so groud flaxseed works as a binder.
- Salt, pepper, cumin and chili powder
- Your favorite dipping sauce – I suggest a garlic herby aioli or summery dip.
How to Make Cauliflower Sweet Potato Patties
Pre-heat oven to 400°F, line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat, and set aside.
- Peel and cut the sweet potato into small pieces. Place in a food processor or blender and pulse until the larger pieces are broken up.
- Add cauliflower, green onion, and garlic and pulse again.
- Add sunflower/pumpkin seeds, ground flaxseed, arrowroot/flour, cilantro, and remaining seasonings. Pulse until a thick batter is formed.
- Scoop ¼ cup of the batter out at a time and press into patties about 1-1 ½ inches thick and place on your prepared baking sheet.
- Freeze for about 10 minutes so the patties can set. This will help them hold their shape.
- Bake patties in preheated oven for 20 minutes, flipping halfway. If you made your patties extra thick, they could take closer to 25 minutes.
Air Fryer Option – Place cauliflower patties (4 at a time) in air fryer at 370°F for 18 minutes, flipping halfway. If your patties are extra thick, they could take closer to 20 minutes.
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Gluten-Free Sweet Potato Recipes
Baked Sweet potato Cauliflower Patties
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 7 1x
Description
Baked Sweet Potato Cakes- paleo and vegan friendly. Air Fryer Option
Ingredients
- 1 medium to large sweet potato, peeled
- 2 cup cauliflower florets
- 1 green onion, chopped
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 2 Tablespoons organic ranch seasoning mix or dairy seasoning mix of choice
- 1 cup packed fresh cilantro
- ½ teaspoon chili powder
- ¼ teaspoon cumin
- 2 Tablespoons arrowroot starch or gluten-free flour of choice
- ¼ cup ground flaxseed
- ¼ cup sunflower seeds (or pumpkin seeds)
- ¼ teaspoon Kosher salt and pepper (or to taste)
- Dipping sauce of choice
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet (or oil) and set aside.
- Next cut your peeled sweet potato into smaller pieces. Place in a food processor or blender and pulse until the larger pieces are broken up.
- Add in your cauliflower, green onion, and garlic and pulse again.
- Add in your sunflower seeds, flaxseed, arrowroot (or flour), cilantro, and remaining seasonings. Pulse or place on medium until a thick batter is formed. See blog for picture.
- Place batter in larger bowl. Scoop ¼ cup of the batter out at a time and form into patties about 1.5 inches thick. Place on baking sheet.
- Repeat until you have about 7-10 patties.
- Chill in freezer for 10 minutes so the patties can set.
- Once set, place patties in oven for 20 minutes, flipping halfway. If you made your patties extra thick, they could take closer to 25 minutes.
- See notes for Air fryer cooking option.
Notes
For Air Fryer Option- Place cauliflower patties (4 at a time) in air fryer at 360 to 370F for 18 minutes, flipping halfway. If your patties are extra thick, they could take closer to 20 minutes.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 20
- Category: vegetarian
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 patty
- Calories: 85
- Sugar: 1.7 g
- Sodium: 200 mg
- Fat: 2.9 g
- Saturated Fat: 1.3 grams
- Unsaturated Fat: 0
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 9 g
- Fiber: 3.5g
- Protein: 2.7 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
This recipe looks delicious! Can I ask what weight of sweet potato did you use to calculate the calories of this recipe? I am calorie restricted and would like to stick to the calorie set 😀
Hi Kelsie! I would say it’s close to 6 to 6.5 ounces. I think that’s around 180 G or so. I can recalculate.
Did you use a cooked or raw sweet potato for this recipe?
I used raw, but i am sure cooked will work too and bake faster!
This looks DELICIOUS!! I’ve missed your blog, Lindsey!!
Sent you email. Let me know if you got it. 😉
Your style of cooking is right up my alley and speaks to my heart! Thank you for all the lovely recipes !
I made these tonight. They didn’t hold together like the ones pictured. What can I do do fix this. I made them exactly as the recipe said. They tasted yummy though. I baked them in the oven.
Oh strange! Did you use fresh cauliflower or frozen?
I also had the same problem. I used fresh cauliflower
Hi Colette! So sorry you had trouble. Did you chill the batter? If that happens again, I would blend with more seeds. It could also be your food processor or blender. Happy to help! Let me know the details.
Lovin’ this sweet potato cauliflower flavor combo!
My daughter in law, a vegetarian, is coming to visit from Australia. I urgently need to experiment with veggie patties in particular and other easy and tasty vegetarian dishes. Please help.
Regards
Beth
sure thing! I love these and then I have two different veggie burgers you could try!
https://www.cottercrunch.com/grilled-moroccan-cauliflower-chickpea-burgers/
or https://www.cottercrunch.com/homemade-vegan-veggie-burgers/
sure thing! I have these patties or 2 other veggie burgers you could try.
https://www.cottercrunch.com/grilled-moroccan-cauliflower-chickpea-burgers/
https://www.cottercrunch.com/homemade-vegan-veggie-burgers/
Lovin’ this sweet potato cauliflower combo!
So much flavor and texture going on in these, so good!
Great mix of ingredients!
Beautifully said. I was really stunned when I heard what happened… I’d just woken up and I thought maybe I wasn’t all the way awake yet. So sad.
I’m much more of a flow cooker these days. I lost my planning mojo. I buy ingredients and see what they make more often than not!
I don’t even know what slow flow kitchen cooking is anymore, although for very different reasons. I really, really want to make my own pasta though. I need to start making time for that.
Anything with sweet potatoes is sure to be amazing! So creative and delicious!
A perfect quick lunch. Make ahead to have them for the week!
I adore these flavorful veggie patties! I’ll be making them a lot this summer!