Cream cheese cauliflower bake
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 10 to 30 mins
- Serve
- Serves 4
A cheat's cauliflower cheese, using three cheeses and crunchy walnuts to perk up a winter classic.
By Rose Elliott
From Veg Talk
Ingredients
- 1 cauliflower, trimmed and cut into 1cm/0.5in pieces
- 300g/10oz cream cheese
- 1 tsp Dijon mustard
- 125g/4oz blue cheese, crumbled
- 25g/1oz walnuts, roughly chopped
- 60g/2oz cheddar, grated
- salt
- freshly ground black pepper
To serve
- watercress salad
Method
Bring 5cm/2in depth of water to the boil in a saucepan, add the cauliflower and cook for about 8 minutes, or until tender. Drain, and return the cauliflower to the pan.
Mix the cream cheese and mustard with the cauliflower, then stir in the blue cheese. Season with a little salt if necessary and plenty of pepper.
Pour the mixture into a shallow gratin dish. Scatter the walnuts on top, then cover with the cheddar (this helps to prevent the walnuts from burning). Place under a preheated hot grill for 10-15 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and the inside hot and bubbling.
Serve at once with a watercress salad.
Recipe tips
You can always make a regular cauliflower cheese if you prefer, and add the walnuts and other cheeses for flavour.
