Roasted Cauliflower with Cheese Sauce in oven is a very quick, easy, and delicious vegan recipe. This recipe of cheesy roasted cauliflower with parmesan cheese and with cheddar cheese is prepared with cauliflower florets, butter, cheese, and garlic. Baked cauliflower with cheese sauce is a perfect side dish for your meal. Check on how to prepare cheesy baked cauliflower in oven
For vegan recipes, I only like cooking the tastier ones of my choice. Any recipes having cheddar cheese or parmesan cheese (any cheese) are my favorite. And roasted cauliflower with cheddar cheese sauce and garlic is my delicious side dish too and I enjoy it.
This cheesy roasted cauliflower with parmesan and cheddar cheese is very quick and easy to prepare. The cheese sauce with garlic that's added to the dish makes it tastier. You can also add more cheddar cheese. The more cheese you add the better and scrumptious it will turn into. It is versatile you can use a combination of any cheese you have in the kitchen.
Try making this recipe of cheesy baked cauliflower at home, it really a mouth-watering and awesome vegan recipe
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How Long To Bake the Cauliflower?
Bake the cauliflower depending on the size and thickness of the cauliflowers. It additionally depends upon florets to get baked. It takes about 15 – 20 minutes for small florets and 20 – 25 minutes for medium to large florets to get baked at 350 degrees F.
How To Cut The Cauliflower For Oven Roasting?
To cut the cauliflower for roasting in oven, all florets of smaller size get roasted fast.
- First, clean the leaves from the base
- Cut the cauliflower into 2 halves from the top
- Cut the stems and separate the florets. If there are larger florets, cut them into 2 halves. All florets should have similar size. The smaller florets consume less time for roasting in oven
What To Do With Leftover Baked Cauliflower With Cheese Sauce?
The leftover roasted cauliflower with cheese sauce can be stored in an air-tight container for 3 – 4 days in the refrigerator. Next before serving, it has to be reheated in the microwave or on the stove top till it gets hot.
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How To Prepare Roasted Cauliflower With Cheese Sauce
- To prepare baked cauliflower with cheese sauce, first, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit / 180 degrees Celsius.
- Now cook the cauliflower florets in a large pot of boiling water with a little salt added to it. Cook for nearly 6 – 8 minutes till the florets become tender and not mashy. It should remain firm enough to bite. Drain the water and transfer the florets to the baking dish.
- Next, to prepare the cheese sauce, take a medium saucepan and melt butter on low heat. Add the garlic and stir fry for nearly 1 minute till good aroma is out. Then add flour, nicely mix it with the butter. Stir and cook the flour for nearly 2 – 3 minutes. Further, add the milk, and raise the heat to medium. Keep stirring it constantly for nearly 4 – 5 minutes, until the sauce becomes thick and can be pourable. If the sauce becomes too thick, little milk can be added and stirred. Add the grated parmesan cheese to this sauce with salt and pepper, stir well till the cheese gets melted in the sauce.
- Now pour the cheese sauce all over the cauliflower florets in the baking dish, and sprinkle it with shredded cheddar cheese all over. Finally bake this cauliflower with cheddar cheese and with parmesan cheese sauce, in the preheated oven for nearly 20 -25 minutes till the baked cauliflower is golden brown
What To Serve With Cheesy Roasted Cauliflower
This baked cauliflower with Parmesan cheese and cheddar cheese can be served as a delicious side dish. It can be served with dishes like honey garlic pork tenderloin recipe, easy lemon pepper chicken breast, honey garlic butter shrimp stir fry, pot roast and vegetables, oven roasted asparagus with parmesan, and many more.
The roasted mushrooms, and also crispy air fryer cauliflower, goes very well with this recipe.
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Easy Roasted Cauliflower With Cheese Sauce and Garlic in Oven Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 large head cauliflower cut into florets
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 4 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 2 cups milk
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
- salt and pepper to taste
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Instructions
- To Prepare roasted cauliflower with cheddar cheese sauce first preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit / 180 degrees Celsius
- Boil water in a large pot with litte salt added, add the cauliflower florets and cook till it becomes tender and not mashy. Then drain the water and transfer the florets to the baking dish by spreading them evenly.
- For cheese sauce, place the medium saucepan on low flame and pour the butter. Let this butter get melted. After butter is melted add the minced garlic and stir fry for a few seconds. Fry till a good aroma of the garlic comes out.
- Add the flour to this mixture, stir and mix it very well. Stir fry and cook for nearly 2 - 3 minutes. Then add milk and raise the flame to medium. Stir the milk with the cheese sauce mixture very well. Keep stirring this mixture regularly for nearly 4 - 5 minutes, till the sauce becomes thick and is pourable.
- Then add the grated parmesan cheese, with salt and pepper to the sauce. Stir it very well till the cheese gets melted.
- Further, pour the cheese sauce evenly all over the cauliflower florets placed in the baking dish. Sprinkle it with the shredded cheddar cheese all over.
- Finally bake the cheesy roasted cauliflower, in the preheated oven for nearly 20 -25 minutes till the cheesy roasted cauliflower with parmesan cheese gets golden brown
Notes
- while making cheese sauce, if the sauce becomes too thick you add little milk.
- if you want to add more cheese you can add.
- if any of the above cheeses are not available, you can use any cheese of your choice.
- if necessary any other cheese of your choice can be used
Perfect roasted cauliflower
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Nice simple and tasty cauliflower recipe. We family enjoyed it.
Delicious cauliflower dish, my children enjoys it and their favorite.
My kids enjoyed this cheesy roasted cauliflower. Mostly they don’t like other cauliflower dishes but one has become their favorite. Thanks!