How do you make cauliflower cheese quick?

Shez

I know this is stupid, but how do you make cauliflower cheese?

Ive got cauli, and a cheese sauce, but do you cook cauli first and then just pour on the cheese sauce or do you cook them together??

want it for tea tonite! help please

Thanks

thriftlady_2

Cook the cauli first Shez,but not so it is mushy (unless you like it that way of course).Then pour over the sauce and brown under the grill.It's nice with breadcrumbs on top too for a bit of crunch,or even better crispy bacon bits

Love your avatar btw - yum

Shez

thanks thriftylady, life saver! (yes i still like colin after all these years since p&p)!

Strepsy

I don't cook it first and like to leave the top half of the cauli above the sauce to roast with breadcrumbs and cheese on top.

howalsh

Quick & cheap - forget buying the sauce!
Cook cauli as others have said, melt some butter in a saucepan, add plain flour (keep stirring) to form a "dough". Add some milk (keep stirring) to required thickness, add grated cheese to taste (keep stirring) & pour over cauli. Wham bam, 5 minutes - cheese sauce made.

Lulubells

Hi,

Cauliflower cheese - my favourite, I make it at least twice a week !!

I agree with Howalsh, I make the cheese sauce as it's quick, cheaper and healthier. I too cook the cauli first as others have said, but for the cheese sauce I just put milk in a saucepan and add some flour and keep stirring and it will form a lovely thick sauce - if you need to make it thicker add more flour - then I add a spoonful of mustard before taking it off the heat and adding cheese- yum. I now make mine with semi skimmed milk and plain wholemeal flour to make it slightly healthier (shame about the half a ton of cheese....)

HTH

calleyw

well beiing a lazy c0w that I am and having no idea how to make a roux sauce. I just cook the cauliflower and then just grate the cheese over the top and pop under the grill.

I must admit that I don't make it very often. Well like a couple of times.

Husband never complained :rotfl: don't think he dares


Yours


Calley

Jay-Jay_4

Calley, your mission this week is to learn to make a roux sace. It IS really easy.... no weighing, no measuring, only three ingredients, only a pan and a whisk needed. It's just so easy that you'll be chucking a cheese sauce together with your eyes shut.

howalsh's instructions are bob on. As long as you use butter instead of marg and keep whisking you can't go wrong. Add the milk slowly until you get the right thickness and put in plenty of tasty cheese. (maybe half red cheese to give it more flavour)

I pour it over cauli and broccoli and sometimes add boiled potatoes. It keeps in the fridge well and can be microwaved the next day.

green-bird

Another way of getting a lump free sauce is to melt the butter first and then fry some finely chopped onion in it. Add the flour to make a thick 'mess' (only way I can describe it!) then add the milk gradually until you have a nice saucy consistancy. Then add a handful of cheese and melt it in. Turn down the heat keep stirring, just to cook it thru.

calleyw

Jay-Jay wrote:

Calley, your mission this week is to learn to make a roux sace.

If I choose to take this mission I will get a gold star :rotfl:

I know but we rarely have anything with sauce like that. I will try and have a go next week. I will think of something that needs a white sauce.

Yours


Calley

Jay-Jay_4

calleyw wrote:

If I choose to take this mission I will get a gold star :rotfl:

:staradmin :staradmin :staradmin You most certainly will! :staradmin :staradmin :staradmin