Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, main course cauliflower cheese. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Main course Cauliflower Cheese is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Main course Cauliflower Cheese is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook 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. Prepare 1 good-sized cauliflower
2. Get 60 g butter
3. Get 40 g plain flour
4. Take 500 ml milk
5. Take 150 g cheddar cheese (or other variety according to preference)
6. Prepare 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. Get 2 onions, thinly sliced
11. Take 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
12. Make ready 1 leek, reasonably thinly sliced
13. Get 100 g chestnut or other mushrooms, in chunks
14. Get 10 cherry tomatoes, halved

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. Cauliflower steaks on the whole don't need more than a basic salt and pepper seasoning before they go into the oven to roast. Valerie Bertinelli keeps things simple here with a buttery mixture. This seriously scrumptious cauliflower cheese recipe is so easy to make and a great way for kids to get their vegetables.

Steps 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

Valerie Bertinelli keeps things simple here with a buttery mixture. This seriously scrumptious cauliflower cheese recipe is so easy to make and a great way for kids to get their vegetables. For a slight variation, try cauliflower cheese with leeks. Transfer the sauce to the cauliflower, and pour all over so the cauliflower is coated with the sauce. Sprinkle some extra cheese on the top if you wish to.

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