What to have with cauliflower cheese?

pawpurrs

Try using some fat, melt some butter than add flour untill, you have made a roux, then slowly bit by bit add the milk, then add the cheese.

studentphil

Cauliflower Cheese

What can you have with Cauliflower cheese other than pasta twists?

Ideally to making it more healthy and interesting


:beer: :beer:

Pink.

Hi Phil,

We have a thread on this very subject that should give you lots of ideas so I've merged your thread with it as it helps to keep all the replies together.

Pink

mrbadexample

Jay-Jay wrote:

Have a look at mrbadexample's Cauliflower cheese thread, hilarious :rotfl:


He mixes pasta and a mediterranean cheese with cauli and (I think) broccoli. He adds bacon too but that could be easily ommited.

:rotfl: Too slow to plug me own thread. :rolleyes:

I just have some nice bread with it - whatever I happen to fancy from Morrisons.

newleaf

Strepsy wrote:

Cauliflower cheese is a BIG favourite here and cheap to make. I do a great big dishfull and leave the top 1/3 of the cauli above the sauce and put bread crumbs and cheese on top so it browns beautifully. My problem is, I never know what to have with it. Nothing ever seems to be the perfect accompaniment?

I'm vegetarian and enjoy doing a few vegetarian meals a week that we can all have together, as hubby and 3 kids eat meat some nights so I would like vegetarian ideas ideally but would be interesting to know what everyone's fave is too.

I have in, spuds, carrots, salad, bread, veggie sausages in the freezer...

Chips. Obviously. (Although we usually have ours with gammon too, as mr newleaf will grumble if there's no meat on his plate :rolleyes: )

MATH

Not vegetarian but I either serve Cauliflower cheese as a side dish for a Sunday Roast or roll rashers of bacon and fry until crispy which I then hide between the florrets, sprinkle on a good helping of fried onion, the sauce and grated cheese.

Thanks for the tip about brocolli, cymro (why didn't I think of that) Mrs MATH doesn't like cauliflower so she can have the green bits;)

recovering_spendaholic

MATH wrote:

Not vegetarian but I either serve Cauliflower cheese as a side dish for a Sunday Roast or roll rashers of bacon and fry until crispy which I then hide between the florrets, sprinkle on a good helping of fried onion, the sauce and grated cheese.

Thanks for the tip about brocolli, cymro (why didn't I think of that) Mrs MATH doesn't like cauliflower so she can have the green bits;)

That bacon thing sounds lovely! I crush TUC biscuits and mix them with some parmesan on the top of my cauli cheese and usually have it with french bread, or with gammon.

greenpixey

I occasionally cook Cauliflower cheese for the family (2 adults & 2 kids) and they like it a lot. However my husband complains that it doesn't feel like a complete dish, he would like something on the side. Has anyone here got any suggestions that would compliment the dish.
I'm not an experimental cook and only follow recipes so I can't think of anything that would go well together...steak perhaps, but does it really go well with the cheese sauce???

lamplady

I often do sausages or bacon as the saltiness seems to work well, and I do a side serving of green beans.

billieboy_2

I do a pasta and cauliflower cheese dish which is nice and makes it more substantial. You could try adding some chopped up ham or something to it if he's missing something meaty.