Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, main course cauliflower cheese. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
King of comfort foods, cauliflower cheese makes a great simple dinner with a jacket potato or a fabulous accompaniment to a roast dinner. A simple and delicious cauliflower cheese recipe - a classic comfort food. This also makes a wonderful accompaniment to a vegetarian roast.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first 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:
- Prepare 1 good-sized cauliflower
- Get 60 g butter
- Get 40 g plain flour
- Prepare 500 ml milk
- Take 150 g cheddar cheese (or other variety according to preference)
- Get Salt
- Take Ground black pepper
- Take 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
- Get 2 onions, thinly sliced
- Make ready 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
- Prepare 1 leek, reasonably thinly sliced
- Prepare 100 g chestnut or other mushrooms, in chunks
- Take 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
This would explain the bechamel element. Rustle up one of the greatest comfort foods: cauliflower cheese. It makes a perfect side dish or vegetarian main meal. I like to serve vegan cauliflower cheese as a main course with caramelised red onions, baby tomatoes, and a few crunchy spring onions too.
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
Cauliflower cheese is a traditional British dish. It can be eaten as a main course, for lunch or dinner, or as a side dish. Cauliflower cheese consists of pieces of cauliflower lightly boiled and covered with a milk-based cheese sauce, for which a mature cheese (such as cheddar) tends to be preferred. This is an absolutely delicious Cauliflower Cheese Pie with Potato Crust. The wonderful smell of the crispy potato crust as it bakes will set your taste buds alive.
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