Main course Cauliflower Cheese
Main course Cauliflower Cheese

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, main course cauliflower cheese. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Make ready 1 good-sized cauliflower
  2. Take 60 g butter
  3. Prepare 40 g plain flour
  4. Take 500 ml milk
  5. Prepare 150 g cheddar cheese (or other variety according to preference)
  6. Get Salt
  7. Get Ground black pepper
  8. Make ready 1/2 tsp English mustard powder or 1 tsp ready-mixed mustard
  9. Take 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. Get 3-4 cloves garlic, chopped
  12. Prepare 1 leek, reasonably thinly sliced
  13. Prepare 100 g chestnut or other mushrooms, in chunks
  14. Take 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
Instructions 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

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