Starters & Light meals

Roast cauliflower with cheese sauce

2 to 4
Easy
15 minutes
45 minutes

Looking for a veggie main to impress your guests? This roast cauliflower with cheese sauce is the recipe you've been looking for. The brown butter gives the cheese sauce extra flavour and you can make this with broccoli as well.

Wine/Spirit Pairing
Woolworths Laibach Ladybird Chardonnay

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Ingredients

Method
  • 2 heads cauliflower, blanched for 2 minutes
  • 3 T, plus 1 t olive oil
  • sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • 140 g Woolworths ruby mixed leaves
  • For the cheese sauce:

  • 2 T butter
  • 1 T flour
  • 1 cup milk
  • salt, to taste
  • 50 g Parmesan, grated
  • 20 g Cheddar, grated
  • 20 g mozzarella, grated

Method

Ingredients

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Place the cauliflower on a baking tray, drizzle with olive oil and season. Roast for 25 minutes, or until golden brown, then grill for 5 minutes.

2. Meanwhile, make the cheese sauce. Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a medium heat, then add the flour. Cook, while whisking, until browned. Gradually whisk in the milk and cook until thick and smooth. Add the cheese and stir gently until melted, then season.

3. Remove the cauliflower from the oven. Heat 1 t olive oil in a large pan and quickly sauté and season the leaves.

4. Serve the cauliflower on the leaves topped with the cheese sauce and extra Parmesan.

Cook's note: This brown butter cheese sauce is also delicious served grilled on toast for a relaxed Sunday supper. You could also replace the cauliflower with broccoli.

Find more cauliflower recipes here.

Photograph: Myburgh Du Plessis

Production: Abigail Donnelly

Food Assistant: Bianca Strydom

 

Abigail Donnelly

Recipe by: Abigail Donnelly

Nothing excites Woolworths TASTE's Food Director quite as much as the challenge of dreaming up recipes with innovative new foods – or the thrill of creating deliciousness on a plate with the humblest of ingredients. With Abi by your side, you’ll be a cooking expert in no time at all.

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