Main course Cauliflower Cheese
Main course Cauliflower Cheese

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Remove from heat, drain and spread across a lasagne or similar oven-proof dish. Place the cauliflower florets into an ovenproof casserole dish and pour over the cheesy sauce. Sprinkle over a pinch of freshly grounded nutmeg. For the topping, mix the ciabatta breadcrumbs with.

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

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

Gently stir in the cauliflower, potatoes, onion and spinach, then remove from the heat. Would you like any meat in the recipe? Now, being brought up in a very carnivorous yorkshire family, I always viewed cauliflower cheese as an accompaniment to a "roast dinner". 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.

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

Now, being brought up in a very carnivorous yorkshire family, I always viewed cauliflower cheese as an accompaniment to a "roast dinner". 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. King of comfort foods, cauliflower cheese makes a great simple dinner with a jacket potato or a fabulous accompaniment to a roast dinner. Dip into our cauliflower cheese recipes to suit every. Cauliflower steaks on the whole don't need more than a basic salt and pepper seasoning before they go into the oven to roast.

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