What’s the best cauliflower cheese recipe you know ?

[Lardlizard]

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Heat cheese of choice in a pan with cream and a bit of whole grain mustard. Boil cauli then combine and cook in oven.

www.olivemagazine.com/recipes/vegetarian/best-ever-cauliflower-cheese/

A bit faffy, but very nice

Is that faffy? Surely that just the standard way to do it - do a roux, then turn it into a bechamel?

Make a white sauce with good amount of English mustard then add lots of mature chedder. Pour over cauli in dish and top with sour dough breadcrumbs, more cheddar and Parmesan. Also like to mix it up a bit and crumble blue cheese over the top but it depends what you are serving it with.

Bechamel, made using milk infused with onion, peppercorn and bayleaf, a bit of Dijon mustard, parmesan and cheddar melted through, more cheddar melted on top.

Don’t boil the cauliflower, goes too soggy, roast it instead. So rub a bit of olive oil over the cauliflower and season it, roast, turning once til it’s browning. Then pour over your cheese sauce (cheese sauce from roux start, grated cheese of choice and bit of Dijon mustard stirred in) and cook in oven til browning and bubbling.

mine is the best

steam cauli till about half done, drain and set in shallow dish,

make a really thick white sauce, use a good spoonful of mustard (english or whole grain) and use less milk than usual, make the difference up with double cream or creme fraiche. Plenty of S&P, a suspicion of nutmeg and some fresh thyme is nice too.

The sauce needs to be so thick that it sits over the cauliflower like a big fat duvet not runny like soup

I only put a little cheese in the sauce

Give the cauliflower a generous covering of grated cheese and if you have odd bits of brie or mozzarella then poke that in and around the florets

tip the sauce over the cauliflower and then put even more grated cheese on the top...plus something bacony/pancetta/prosciutto on top

Into the oven with it until the cheese and bacon are singing with golden sizzleyness.

my cauliflower cheese is not veggie friendly!

Ah yes, I forgot about steaming the cauli and a tiny bit of nutmeg.

One without any cauliflower.

Simon Hopkinson's from The Vegetarian Option www.thetimes.co.uk/article/simon-hopkinson-vegetable-recipes-gj79fhvpcw9

Mine ;-)

My mums which I got the recipe off!

Boil cauliflower not fully but until you can put a knife through with a little resistance.

Drain and make sure all the steam comes off.

Make cheese sauce all in one method, don't be afraid to use more flour, it's easier to thin with the milk than to having to thicken up milky sauce with flour. Keep whisking. Let it bubble for 2 minutes to get rid of the flour taste. Add lots and lots of grated cheddar. And 2 big teaspoons of english mustard.

Pour over cauliflower, spinkle more cheese over the top, bung in oven for around half a hour on 180 heat (fan oven) but keep an eye on it, you want it to be browned and bubbling.

Don’t boil the cauliflower, goes too soggy, roast it instead. So rub a bit of olive oil over the cauliflower and season it, roast, turning once til it’s browning. Forget the cheese sauce and just do this. Roasted cauliflower is delicious.

The Hairy Bikers version with bacon and mushrooms. Lush.

I make the sauce with boiled potato & cauliflower, blended with milk and butter/Marg, and stir in grated cheese.
Sometimes I put it over broccoli, just for a change.

I made cauliflower cheese with carbonara pasta sauce, cheese on top, into the oven. It was gorgeous!...and used up the left overs in the fridge

I make it with fresh pasta sauce too! Par boil cauliflower put in oven dish, pour tub 4 cheese pasta sauce over, add plenty of grated cheese, black pepper and nutmeg and bung in oven for around 30 minutes, very lazy, very easy.

I make cheese sauce with roasted butternut squash (halved, seeds removed and then roasted till soft) (or sometimes I just microwave the prechopped, frozen stuff) Scoop the flesh out and blitz with a hand blender while it's still hot, chuck in tonnes of grated extra mature cheddar and then thin with milk if needed. Makes me feel better coz it has a hidden veg in!

Mine is definitely the nicest...

Cut c into little florets, roast in butter and salt in the over turning over occasionally for 40 minutes.
Melt mature cheddar into a pan of hot double cream and squeeze half a lemon into the sauce (trust me it’s amazing)

Enjoy!!
Ps I sometimes add a spoon of Dijon mustard.

Walk to Aldi.

Find the frozen veg aisle

Pick out bag of frozen cauliflower cheese

Find check out.

Have cauliflower cheese thrown at you.

Pay.

Walk home

Find roasting dish.

Empty cauliflower cheese from bag into dish.

Set oven to gas mark 6 for 45 minutes.

Sit on arse.

When oven beeps find oven mitt / tea towel/ old t-shirt / sock and remove tray from oven.

Scoff the lot. And be amazed at how good this stuff is.

Those who roast cauliflower - try adding mustard seeds. I don't know why they go so well with roast cauliflower but they do.

We had the Aldi cauli cheese the other night but found it a bit disappointing.

I don't have a recipe but as we have it as a main I've added more and more to it over the years. I always add chestnut mushrooms, sometimes thin wedges of raw onion, sometimes walnuts. Always a generous layer of cheese sauce (mustard added) with grated cheese and breadcrumbs sprinkled on top to give it crunch.

Cauliflower is the one vegetable I like really soft and melting, so it gets a good steam first, then assembled with the above than baked for half an hour.