British

Cauliflower Cheese

Name: Cauliflower Cheese
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 2 lb cauliflower; 2 tbsp butter; 2 tbsp all purpose flour; 2 cups milk; 1.5 cups shredded cheddar; 1/2 tsp mustard powder; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Simon @simon_roasts

Cauliflower Cheese is British home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Vegetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

2 lb cauliflower
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp all purpose flour
2 cups milk
1.5 cups shredded cheddar
1/2 tsp mustard powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 400F.
Cut the cauliflower into florets and boil in salted water until just tender, about 6 minutes, then drain well.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and whisk in the flour, cooking for a minute.
Gradually whisk in the milk and simmer until thickened, about 5 minutes, then stir in half the cheddar and the mustard powder until melted.
Season with salt and pepper, fold in the cauliflower, and spoon into a baking dish.
Scatter with the remaining cheddar and bake until golden and bubbling, about 20 minutes.

Watch how to cook Cauliflower Cheese

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

British Classic Cauliflower Cheese - The ESSENTIAL Side Dish! Play the video

Serve it with

A British dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cauliflower Cheese, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Bacon and Egg Pie
  
  55 min
What it is eaten with
- British Mashed Potatoes
  
  30 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cauliflower Cheese carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Cauliflower Cheese
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Nothing comparable without it yet
Gluten	Yes	Mushy Peas
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 360 kcal
Protein: 18 g
Carbs: 20 g
Fat: 23 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 6 g
Sodium: 470 mg
Saturated fat: 14 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Cauliflower Cheese takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.