It enriches the sauce for an extra-luxurious finish and I highly recommend it if you’re making this for company. Milk and cream – The liquids for this cheese sauce. This is called a Mornay sauce, and is nothing more than béchamel sauce (white sauce) with cheese added!įlour and butter – Melted butter cooked with flour is called a roux and this is what thickens the Mornay sauce Here’s what you need for the cheese sauce. This equates to around a 1.25kg / 2.5lb whole cauliflower head (or 2 small, or 1 1/2 medium). 😂 A big one! We need 1kg / 2lb of florets after removing from the main stem. To roast cauliflower, we just need salt, pepper and a little olive oil. Roasting coaxes out more flavour instead of boiling it all away! Roasted cauliflowerĪs mentioned above, I really believe it’s better to roast rather than boil or steam the cauliflower like most recipes do. Here’s what you need to make Cauliflower Cheese: 1. That bowl pictured above was my lunch! What goes in Cauliflower Cheese Second tip: Umm … don’t hold back on the cheese! Be bold and true to the name – Cauliflower CHEESE!! Don’t just think of Cauliflower Cheese as a side. It’s got better flavour and avoids the pitfalls of a watery sauce. The better way to make Cauliflower Cheese? Roast the cauliflower. While that’s totally fine, you do end up with that distinctly sulphurous, boiled cauliflower flavour (not my favourite taste in the world) and run the risk of patches of watery sauce. There’s plenty of recipes out there that tell you to just boil up some cauliflower, cover it in a béchamel sauce, throw in some cheese, and bake it.
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While perhaps not the lightest dish in my repertoire, it is however hands down the most delicious cauliflower recipe I know! Cauliflower CheeseĪ really great Cauliflower Cheese recipe has been on my radar ever since I experienced a great example at a well-known steakhouse in Sydney some years ago! How to make cheese sauce for cauliflower cheeseĬauliflower Cheese is a British dish that is served as a side or even as a main (vegetarian!) It’s a cauliflower bake, smothered in a creamy cheese sauce that’s popped in the oven until bubbly and golden.
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