Main course Cauliflower Cheese
Main course Cauliflower Cheese

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, main course cauliflower cheese. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

For the topping, mix the ciabatta breadcrumbs with the parmesan cheese, then sprinkle the mixture over the cauliflower. Remove from heat, drain and spread across a lasagne or similar oven-proof dish. Gently stir in the cauliflower, potatoes, onion and spinach, then remove from the heat. Warm the fresh cheese sauce in a saucepan or in a dish in the microwave, according to instructions, then pour over the cauliflower.

Main course Cauliflower Cheese is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Main course Cauliflower Cheese is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have main course cauliflower cheese using 14 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Main course Cauliflower Cheese:
  1. Take 1 good-sized cauliflower
  2. Prepare 60 g butter
  3. Make ready 40 g plain flour
  4. Prepare 500 ml milk
  5. Take 150 g cheddar cheese (or other variety according to preference)
  6. Get Salt
  7. Make ready Ground black pepper
  8. Take 1/2 tsp English mustard powder or 1 tsp ready-mixed mustard
  9. Prepare 80-100 g bacon, cut in small pieces. I use unsmoked bacon but use smoked if that’s your taste
  10. Take 2 onions, thinly sliced
  11. Take 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
  12. Prepare 1 leek, reasonably thinly sliced
  13. Get 100 g chestnut or other mushrooms, in chunks
  14. Get 10 cherry tomatoes, halved

Dip into our cauliflower cheese recipes to suit every. However, as we are trying to reduce our food spend, and increase the proportion of veg we eat, when we formulated this weeks menu, I bravely said we would have Cauliflower cheese for tonights dinner. No worse than having maccaroni cheese as a main meal. In fact, I did have it last night (whith roast veg and french bread).

Instructions to make Main course Cauliflower Cheese:
  1. Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 5 or electric equivalent. 160C on a Circotherm oven, probably 180C otherwise.
  2. Break up the cauliflower into large florets (use the stalks and outer leaves if you like but cut them up small so that everything is cooked evenly) and boil in salted water for around 10 minutes, until cooked but still firm. Remove from heat, drain and spread across a lasagne or similar oven-proof dish.
  3. Heat 10g of the butter and gently fry the bacon pieces for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the onions and fry them for another 2 minutes. Then add the garlic and leeks and fry for a further 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Finally, add the mushrooms and fry for another minute, stirring gently but continuously. Set aside.
  4. In a separate pan, gently melt the butter and then progressively add the flour, stirring continuously to make a smooth paste.
  5. Add the milk, a very little at a time and stirring continuously. When all is thoroughly mixed, add 100g of cheese and stir until well-mixed.
  6. Add the fried ingredients, stir to mix well. If the sauce is too thick to be be of a pouring but not thin consistency, add a little more milk.
  7. Pour over the cauliflower to cover evenly. Spread the remaining 50g of cheese and place the halved tomatoes on top.
  8. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 30 minutes until golden-brown and bubbly. Serve piping hot

No worse than having maccaroni cheese as a main meal. In fact, I did have it last night (whith roast veg and french bread). It is also quite yummy if you pop some red pesto in the bottom of the dish before adding the veg and cheese (and bacon) sauce. Ity bubbles up nicell and gives it a really nice taste. A head of cauliflower goes a long way.

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