Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, main course cauliflower cheese. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Cauliflower cheese with a fantastic crunchy parmesan topping. The bacon and mushrooms make it hearty enough to work as a main course. This cauliflower grilled cheese recipe is a very easy one to make and is a great way of eating cauliflower in a deliciously rich creamy cheese sauce.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
- Take 1 good-sized cauliflower
- Make ready 60 g butter
- Make ready 40 g plain flour
- Prepare 500 ml milk
- Make ready 150 g cheddar cheese (or other variety according to preference)
- Get Salt
- Prepare Ground black pepper
- Prepare 1/2 tsp English mustard powder or 1 tsp ready-mixed mustard
- Make ready 80-100 g bacon, cut in small pieces. I use unsmoked bacon but use smoked if that’s your taste
- Prepare 2 onions, thinly sliced
- Prepare 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
- Take 1 leek, reasonably thinly sliced
- Make ready 100 g chestnut or other mushrooms, in chunks
- Get 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
I knew I wanted to create the perfect stove-top mac and cheese that was similar to the boxed stuff, but much, much better…and so much healthier. With the addition of cauliflower, I was able to use way less cream, butter, and even cheese. This Cauliflower Mac and Cheese will satisfy all of your mac and cheese cravings! Roasted cauliflower is coated in a cheesy sauce and is simply the best!
Steps 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
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