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Best cauliflower cheese recipe?

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littletike · 15/12/2017 11:56

I've been looking at a few different recipes for cauliflower cheese but can't decide which one to use... Any recommendations?

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EmmaJR1 · 15/12/2017 12:07

Leith's Parmesan and Pancetta cauliflower cheese is AMAZING- and I really hate cauliflower!

www.cooked.com/uk/Leiths-School-of-Food-and-Wine/Quadrille-Publishing/Leiths-How-to-Cook/Vegetables/Cauliflower-cheese-recipe

littletike · 15/12/2017 13:31

Thanks will have a look

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Fragglewump · 15/12/2017 21:52

I cook my cauliflower until cooked but firm first. Then I pour cheese sauce on it and brown it off in the oven. Stops it going watery.

Doobydoo · 15/12/2017 21:56

Frozen from Sainsbury's....add stuff if you want to.

Crumbs1 · 15/12/2017 22:37

Microwave cauliflower until just tender don’t boil - reduces wateriness.
Cheese sauce with a good dollop of English mustard and a scratching of nutmeg. Don’t drown the cauliflower in sauce.

123bananas · 15/12/2017 22:40

Make it with romanesco cauliflower.

MsHomeSlice · 16/12/2017 09:31

i steam my cauliflower to stop the wateriness...until just off done.

Make sure the sauce is really well seasoned and really thick, and dob in a good spoonful of English Mustard, and try and get a couple of tbs of creme fraiche in it too....NOT low fat.

Also grate some cheese and throw that over and around the cauliflower before the sauce goes over. Sometimes I chuck in chunks of random bits of cheese as well. Mozzarella is good, but maybe not for a side dish.

The sauce should be so thick it looks like a duvet laid over the cauliflower. More cheese over the top

Then into a hot oven until it is the picture of golden and cheesey goodness.

If we are having it for a main then I put bacon over the top too.

Chasingsquirrels · 16/12/2017 09:33

I've only recently discovered cauliflower cheese (not sure why as always liked cauliflower).
I just buy it frozen from Aldi.

Sensimilla · 16/12/2017 09:38

Well, i never. It never occured to me that CC was anything other than cauliflower+ cheddar cheese sauce!

Going to try with mustard and following for further inspiration

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