Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cauliflower cheese. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Cauliflower Cheese is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Cauliflower Cheese is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Cauliflower cheese is a classic, heartwarming recipe for an English dish that tops steamed cauliflower with a rich cheese sauce. Wash the cauliflower thoroughly and place in a large saucepan of salted water. Tender cauliflower topped with a velvety smooth Cheese Sauce is a favorite side dish among kids and adults.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook cauliflower cheese using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Cauliflower Cheese:
- Prepare large or 2 small cauliflowers
- Prepare for the cheese sauce
- Take x milk
- Prepare x plain flour
- Get x butter
- Prepare x strong cheddar cheese
- Get x parmesan cheese
- Make ready dijon mustard x
Cauliflower Cheese is a wonderful side dish to serve alongside your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. It tastes wonderful, goes great with any roasted meats, particularly turkey and ham, and you can make ahead and then pop in the oven when needed, and who doesn't love cheese anyway! Place broccoli florets in a pot. Add water until covered and bring to a boil.
Steps to make Cauliflower Cheese:
- Remove the core and cut cauliflower into florets making sure the size is uniform, I prefer not to go smaller than a couple of inches, then blanche in rapidly boiling salted water until they are still a little firm, not fully cooked as they are going in the oven later.
- In this video the cauliflower took around 5 minutes to boil, I removed from the water and arranged in a suitable sized oven dish. Do not refresh in ice water as they will be water-logged, let them steam dry, and arrange nicely so the florets are facing upwards. Then start the béchamel by melting the butter
- When the butter has melted fully, add in the flour and stir over a low heat for a few minutes until it comes together to form a roux and the raw flour is cooked out a little. Time to add the milk in stages add a little at a time and each time move the roux around the pan to gather up the milk, then beat it to a velvety smooth consistency before adding the next splash of milk, this is my best method for avoiding lumps
- Here you can see me moving the roux around then beating it smooth before adding more milk, the last image has all milk added and gently simmering still over a low heat before seasoning with pepper but not salt at this stage as we are adding salty cheese
- Add about 2/3 of the cheddar and parmesan, reserving some for the topping, stir vigorously until it has all melted and the cheese sauce is silky smooth
- Time to taste for seasoning now to your liking, then drown the cauliflower with as much sauce as you like, I had a little too much, if you do check out my previous recipe for Croque Monseuir to use it up. Then sprinkle over the remaining cheese
- So into a hot oven 220c until it is bubbling and brown and you cannot resist it, get in there with a big serving spoon and see if how much you eat before anyone else gets in there.
- I love bacon or ham with mine but also this goes so well with a roast dinner, these screen shots are taken from my youtube channel, feel free to check it out there.https://www.youtube.com/watch?bhi=WMzk58PI9JI&t=38s
Cook until the broccoli is fork tender. This is an easy recipe for cauliflower cheese but it's pretty versatile. You can use the cheese sauce with any vegetables you have handy. I often put a layer of cooked kale or broccoli on the bottom, then arrange the cooked cauliflower florets on top. Remove from heat, pour over the cauliflower, and stir to combine.
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