Cauliflower & Broccoli Cheese
Take your cauliflower cheese to the next level with this recipe.
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Ingredients
Cheese sauce:
- 60 Butter
- 60 Plain flour
- 600 ml Whole milk
- 300 g Grated cheddar
- 100 g Grated parmesan
- 1 tsp Mustard powder
- ½ Ground nutmeg
For the cauliflower cheese:
- 1 Cauliflower
- 1 Broccoli
- 400 g Grated cheddar
- 100 g Grated parmesan
- 80 g Flaked almonds
- 1 Bunch of fresh thyme finely chopped
- A handful of dried breadcrumbs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 185℃
- Break the cauliflower and the broccoli into florets. Cut any extra-large ones in half so that they are all roughly the same size.
- Bring a saucepan of water to the boil, place the broccoli in and cook for 4-5 minutes. Drain, then place the broccoli along with the cauliflower into a roasting tray.
- To make the cheese sauce, add the milk, flour and butter into a saucepan and cook over a medium-high heat.
- Keep whisking fast as the butter melts and the mixture comes to the boil. The flour will disappear, and the sauce will begin to thicken.
- Whisk for two minutes while the sauce bubbles and becomes nice and thick.
- Turn off the heat, then add the grated cheddar and grated parmesan. Whisk until it's all melted.
- Add the ground nutmeg and the mustard powder and mix well.
- Pour the cheese sauce all over the cauliflower and the broccoli.
- Scatter the cheddar and the parmesan over the top, followed by the chopped thyme, flaked almonds and stale breadcrumbs.
- Bake in the oven for 50 minutes. Leave to stand at room temperature for at least ten minutes before serving.
