Main course Cauliflower Cheese
Main course Cauliflower Cheese

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Main course Cauliflower Cheese is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Main course Cauliflower Cheese is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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.

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

The ingredients needed to make Main course Cauliflower Cheese:
  1. Get 1 good-sized cauliflower
  2. Prepare 60 g butter
  3. Prepare 40 g plain flour
  4. Make ready 500 ml milk
  5. Prepare 150 g cheddar cheese (or other variety according to preference)
  6. Get Salt
  7. Take Ground black pepper
  8. Get 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. Make ready 2 onions, thinly sliced
  11. Get 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
  12. Prepare 1 leek, reasonably thinly sliced
  13. Make ready 100 g chestnut or other mushrooms, in chunks
  14. Take 10 cherry tomatoes, halved

Not only is it a great way to eat cauliflower, but it can either be a side dish with a roast or an excellent vegetarian main course, served with a baked potato and a. Cauliflower cheese is thought to have originated in Kythrea, in cyprus. Anglocypriots claim to have introduced this recipe to the UK during the French Lusignan rule over Cyprus. This would explain the bechamel element.

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

Cauliflower Cheese recipe, a classic and favorite way to eat cauliflower. Easy to prepare and it looks so delicious and dramatic when serving. Originating in England, Cauliflower Cheese has become a traditional English dish to serve as a main course or as a lunch or dinner side dish. I like to serve vegan cauliflower cheese as a main course with caramelised red onions, baby tomatoes, and a few crunchy spring onions too. Instant Low Carb Cauliflower Mac and Cheese.

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