A favourite dish of mine is mature cheddar cauliflower cheese. A great addition to a special vegetarian roast meal or a meal in its own right with crusty bread. Below is my wonderful girlfriends’ version of this great dish.
What you need
– a cauliflower
– good mature cheddar
– butter *
– plain flour *
– milk *
– mustard *
* see coating white sauce recipe here
Step 1 – Break up the cauliflower into large chunks and spread out into a large microwave and oven friendly cooking dish, we have a pyrex one. Microwave until tender, so not too soft, but not rock solid.
Step 2 – Make the cheese sauce, which is a coating white sauce with the cheese added. We added 200g of ticklers mature cheddar, but other cheeses will be fine. Reserve a bit of your cheese and grate. Then pour the cheese sauce over the cauliflower and sprinkle the grated cheese across the top.
Step 3 – Then place in the oven for thirty to forty minutes on 200 degrees ( gas mark 6 ), but check every twenty-five minutes onwards until you feel it is cooked. Which should look like the first photo in this post.
Enjoy.
YUM! I adore both cheese and cauliflower, so this is a perfect recipe for me!!! 😀
Hi Tracey,
Glad you like the recipe. 🙂 I’ve always loved cauliflower cheese, but most people don’t add strong mature cheddar, instead opt for weaker cheese, especially restaurants, which is a shame. A good cheddar can cost more, but give this dish the personality it requires.
As you say, Yum! Sums up the dish.
Cheers for the response and all the best.
Andrew