Cauliflower Au Gratin is a baked creamy dish cooked with white sauce, two types of cheeses to make it more creamy and delicious for a warm winter night.
I was planning on making it over the weekend and ended up making it much later than I planned. Weekends seem to be so rushed, never enough time to do how I plan. With weekdays becoming next to impossible to do my blog cooking, weekends seem to end up the same as well. I somehow managed to bake a huge batch of cookies that as expected, got over before Monday began. The basic idea was to bake cookies at home so that I don't resort to store bought cookies.
Hubby Dear was saying I should be planning on making these things rather than buying them. It was a hint at both being a food blogger plus having enough to blog about. Anyway, that's for another post.
Today's Cauliflower Au Gratin is from French cuisine, which I heavily adapted to my taste by adding red chili flakes. My plan was to have this on Sunday, however, it now becomes my bakethon post as well. Initially, I had an idea to microwave this dish, since it had to be part of Bakeathon, I ended up baking it. The dish came about very quickly because I had made white sauce and onion powder along with garlic powder. This can be done in flat 5 minutes if you were using the microwave for it.
We are starting BM#83, Week 2, with me making some dishes for Christmas at home. Au Gratins are popular casseroles or warm winter meals made for Christmas dinners. So I decided to have this on the menu!
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Cauliflower Au Gratin
Ingredients Needed:
1 cup Cauliflower cut into florets
1 tsp Butter
1/2 tsp Onion powder
1/2 tsp Garlic powder
1 tsp All Purpose Flour
1 tsp Red Chilli Flakes
2 tbsp White Sauce
1/4 cup Milk
2 tbsp Cheddar Cheese grated
2 tbsp Pizza Cheese
Salt to Taste
Pepper to Taste
Wash and dice the cauliflower into small florets. Add about 1/2 cup water and microwave for 5 mins.
Drain the water and add to the bowl.
Add the white sauce, milk, mix well.
Then add onion powder, garlic powder, 1/2 tsp red chili flakes, pepper and mix well.
Transfer this to the baking bowl.
Sprinkle the flour over the mix and top with grated cheese.
Sprinkle pepper and red chili flakes more if required.
Preheat the oven to 185C and bake for 15 to 20 mins.
Serve hot.
Cauliflower Au Gratin
Ingredients
- 1 cup Cauliflower cut into florets
- 1 tsp Butter
- 1/2 tsp Onion powder
- 1/2 tsp Garlic powder
- 1 tsp All purpose flour
- 1 tsp Red Chilli Flakes
- 2 tbsp White Sauce
- 1/4 cup Milk
- 2 tbsp Cheddar Cheese grated
- 2 tbsp Pizza Cheese grated
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
Instructions
- Wash and dice the cauliflower into small florets. Add about 1/2 cup water and microwave for 5 mins.
- Drain the water and add to the bowl.
- Add the white sauce, milk, mix well.
- Then add onion powder, garlic powder, 1/2 tsp red chili flakes, pepper and mix well.
- Transfer this to the baking bowl.
- Sprinkle the flour over the mix and top with grated cheese.
- Sprinkle pepper and red chili flakes more if required.
- Preheat the oven to 185C and bake for 15 to 20 mins.
- Serve hot.
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Sowmya:) says
That sounds like a perfect meal when I am cooking for one...looks so creamy and delicious that I want to dig into the bowl right now. Yum yum.
And kudos to you Valli for doing so many things and excelling at them! Can never imagine how you manage!
vaishalisabnani says
Among au gratins potato and cauliflower are the best that I personally like . The cheesy dish looks fabulous and even I would not mind it for my meal.
Rafeeda - The Big Sweet Tooth says
Hehe... that's sweet of your husband to give you ideas of how to feed the blog... 😉 I am not a cauliflower person but my brother is, and with all the cheese and yummy stuff, I am sure he will go flat for this dish... must try out for dinner...
usha says
Looks creamy and delicious. Every year I plan on baking cookies for Christmas but back out in the last minute. More than me my husband scares as people here have lot of nut allergies and am afraid to share with anyone other than close friends.
Harini-Jaya R says
Very cheesy and I am sure my little one will love to dig into it!
Mireille Roc (@ChefMireille) says
looks so nice and creamy - perfect au grating consistency
Sapana Behl says
Cauliflower au gratin is in my to do list since forever. This one looks so creamy and tasty.
sushma says
Looks so nice and creamy. Good one.
Priya Kumar says
wow, I am in love with cauliflower these days.. looks so tempting.. m sure having it hot would be a heavenly feeling.
Pavani says
Wow Valli, that dish looks so creamy, so cheesy and so delicious.
Priya Srinivasan says
wow valli, that is one scrumptious bake, i remember baking them for last bake-a-thon!!! all that cheese, makes it more tempting!!! i