How do you make cauliflower cheese quick?

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helen81 wrote:

Hi,

I want to make cauliflower cheese for tea tonight...I will be using a packet of frozen cauli, will it cook if I just put the frozen cauli in an ovenproof dish,pour on cheese sauce and bake in oven or do you think I need to boil the cauli first?

Thanks u lot!

It will go soggy don't you think if you cook it first?

I would risk using it frozen and put the lot into a pre heated oven. I don't think frozen cauli takes very long to cook.

What do others think? I don't have frozen cauli very often

Bogof_Babe

Why not let the cauli defrost before pouring the cheese sauce over it, then bung the lot in the oven for half an hour or so?

FrankieM

I uise frozen cauli for cauliflower cheese and bacon and I cook it first. Well when I say cook I mean I bring it to the boil and give it a couple of minutes.
Likme most frozen veg it doesn't need very long.
And its never been soggy...

helen81_2

I boiled the cauli in a pan for 5 mins whille I made some cheese sauce then put in oven dish,topped with cheese sauce,breadcrumbs and grated cheese....it smells luvly..almost done, hope its yum! :T

moonrakerz

Have bacon and baked beans with it ! It's a great combination - honest.

Montymoo_2

just had my tea and im hungry again now!

will try the bacon and beans idea though!

tigs78

I am soon to embark on my 23rd annual diet and this time I'm serious about it. So that I am not tempted to cheat early on in the diet I am eating all the nice things that I won't be able to have when I start my diet. In Tesco Express earlier today I saw cauliflower cheese and being an OS convert I decided that I would try and make it.

I bought a cauliflower and some grated cheese but on my return home I noticed the cheese is grated mozzarella Will it be OK to use mozzarella instead of 'normal' cheese?

Will have a search through the archives for a recipe unless anyone has 'Quite possibly the best cauliflower cheese recipe... in the world - ever' that they'd like to share with me.

Also my Mum used to have crispy caramelized oninons on the top of hers, any ideas how I would go about that?

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

aurora_borealis_2

I don't think it will be tasty enough.
Mozzarella is quite bland. Half and half might work though

jobbingmusician

Half and half sounds like a nice idea. Moz will give you a great 'stringy' cauli cheese, if that's what you like. (I do!)

tigs78

I thought as much, I think I am finally starting to get a 'cooks head' on me and know the real answers to my silly Q's but don't have the confidence to believe in myself.

I don't have any 'normal' cheese but I do have a tub of fresh cheese sauce which is meant for pasta, I'll just use that and add the mozzarella for string factor. It's a shame though, I was quite looking forward to making the roux sauce.