Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, main course cauliflower cheese. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Main course Cauliflower Cheese is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Main course Cauliflower Cheese is something which I have loved my whole life.
Cauliflower cheese with a fantastic crunchy parmesan topping. The bacon and mushrooms make it hearty enough to work as a main course. Great recipe for Main course Cauliflower Cheese.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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:
- Make ready 1 good-sized cauliflower
- Prepare 60 g butter
- Prepare 40 g plain flour
- Get 500 ml milk
- Get 150 g cheddar cheese (or other variety according to preference)
- Prepare Salt
- Make ready Ground black pepper
- Make ready 1/2 tsp English mustard powder or 1 tsp ready-mixed mustard
- Prepare 80-100 g bacon, cut in small pieces. I use unsmoked bacon but use smoked if that’s your taste
- Take 2 onions, thinly sliced
- Take 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
- Make ready 1 leek, reasonably thinly sliced
- Make ready 100 g chestnut or other mushrooms, in chunks
- Take 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
These cauliflower steaks can serve as a vegetarian main course or sit beautifully alongside grass-fed, grilled rib-eye or Porterhouse steaks. Piment d'Espelette is the French version of paprika. Cauliflower steaks on the whole don't need more than a basic salt and pepper seasoning before they go into the oven to roast. Valerie Bertinelli keeps things simple here with a buttery mixture.
Instructions to make Main course Cauliflower Cheese:
- Pre-heat oven to Gas Mark 5 or electric equivalent. 160C on a Circotherm oven, probably 180C otherwise.
- 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.
- 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.
- In a separate pan, gently melt the butter and then progressively add the flour, stirring continuously to make a smooth paste.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pour over the cauliflower to cover evenly. Spread the remaining 50g of cheese and place the halved tomatoes on top.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven for 30 minutes until golden-brown and bubbly. Serve piping hot
This seriously scrumptious cauliflower cheese recipe is so easy to make and a great way for kids to get their vegetables. For a slight variation, try cauliflower cheese with leeks. 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.
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