Gratin is a baked dish that has a very appetizing crust. Food is always cooked in the oven. You can use different vegetables for it. One of the win-win options is cauliflower.
Cauliflower gratin - general cooking principles
Cabbage is always pretreated. To do this, head out washed, divided into small inflorescences. If necessary, beams cut with a knife. Fleshy and hard parts are removed. Inflorescences are usually boiled in salted water. Can be baked in the oven. Then the pieces are placed in the form, often they add other products.
What is Gratin With?
• vegetables;
• Fish and seafood;
• mushrooms;
• poultry, meat.
Ingredients in the form of always pour sauce. A classic bechamel sauce is great. Often make talkers on the basis of eggs and dairy products. Always add cheese. A small amount is used for dressing. An unusual crust make crackers. You can use the finished product for breading or grate stale bread.
Simple cauliflower gratin
The recipe for simple and easy cauliflower gratin in the oven. The dish is low-calorie, but if necessary, you can substitute milk with low-fat cream.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of inflorescences of cabbage;
• 2 tsp. drain oils;
• 2 tsp. flour;
• 230 ml of milk;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• 10 ml of vegetable oil;
• 3 tsp. paneer crackers.
Cooking
1. We put a piece of foil on a baking sheet, spread the cabbage inflorescences in one layer. Sprinkle with vegetable oil, put in the oven for 10 minutes. Temperature 200. Then we get a baking sheet, turn the inflorescences, bake for another 15 minutes.
2. We shift the cabbage in a baking dish.
3. Melt butter, add flour to it, fry for a minute and dilute with milk. We warm up the sauce for a couple of minutes, season with spices, remove from the heat.
4. Add grated cheese to the sauce, stir.
5. Pour the cabbage with cooked sauce, sprinkle with breadcrumbs on top. 6. Put the gratin in the oven, bake the dish until a beautiful and firm crust is about 25-30 minutes.
7. Take out the gratin from the oven. Serve immediately, while it is hot.
Cauliflower Gratin with Chicken
The option of a substantial cauliflower dish with chicken fillet. In this recipe there is a lot of cheese, the sauce will turn out thick, rich.
Ingredients
• 1 cabbage fork;
• 1 fillet;
• 2 spoons of crackers;
• 150 g of milk;
• 200 grams of cheese;
• 30 g flour;
• salt pepper;
• 50 g of oil.
Cooking
1. Pour water into any pan, just two liters, add salt, set on fire. After boiling we lay cabbage inflorescences, boil for 54 minutes. Throw in a colander.
2. Cut the chicken fillet into strips, put it on the pan and fry quickly until golden brown.
3. Heat oil, add flour, fry.
4. As the flour begins to brown, pour in the milk. At this stage, the sauce should be quickly stirred so that it does not form lumps.
5. Add salt, pepper. Cook the sauce on a very low heat.
6. We drive grated cheese, mix well, remove from heat.
7. Put cabbage blossoms into the form, sometimes add chicken fillet. If desired, it may be more than what is indicated in the recipe.
8. Spread hot thick sauce, level the top layer. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
9. Put the form with the dish in the oven, cook for half an hour, temperature 180.
Cauliflower Gratin with Ham and Potatoes
Option nourishing gratin. For the potatoes to cook, it is pre-boiled. Ham can be used any.
Ingredients
• 200 g of ham;
• 800 g of potatoes;
• 600 g cauliflower;
• 300 ml of milk;
• 3 spoons of crackers;
• 3 eggs;
• 250 grams of cheese;
• pepper, salt.
Cooking
1. We wash the cauliflower cauliflower, soak it in salt water, disassemble it into small florets, boil it in boiling water for 5 minutes. Merge into a colander.
2. Peel the potatoes, cut them into 5 mm round plates. Dip in boiling water, boil for 5 minutes.
3. For the sauce, beat the eggs and milk, add the grated cheese. You can grind everything together in a combine. 4. Put the potatoes on the bottom of a greased form, pour over the sauce, season with spices.
5. We lay out the top layer of boiled cabbage inflorescences.
6. Ham cut into strips. We put between pieces of cabbage, the remains scattered on top.
7. Pour gratin with remaining cheese sauce with eggs and milk.
8. Sprinkle with light crackers on top.
9. We send the dish to be baked in the oven, cook for about half an hour, look at the color of the upper layer.
Cauliflower Gratin with Mushrooms
In fact, you can use not only champignons for this gratin, but also any other mushrooms to your taste. The dish is very fragrant and tasty. Philadelphia cheese is used for the sauce.
Ingredients
• 2 onions;
• 800 g of cabbage;
• 300 g of champignons;
• 150 ml of milk;
• 200 g Philadelphia cheese;
• 40 g cheese, you can take Parmesan;
• two eggs;
• 2 spoons of crackers;
• 40 ml of oil;
• any spices.
Cooking
1. Cabbage must be disassembled or cut into small bundles.
2. Put inflorescences in boiling water, boil 5 minutes. Vegetable must be removed from the water, cool.
3. Pour oil into the pan, put on fire.
4. Onions should be cut into cubes, pour in butter, fry for two minutes.
5. Slice the mushrooms, add to the onions. Fry together for about five minutes.
6. We spread in the form of a layer of cabbage inflorescences.
7. Top put a layer of mushrooms and onions, fill the voids between cabbage buds
8. Whip milk with eggs and cheese, add any spices to the sauce. Fill in the form with the rest of the products.
9. Top make a thin layer of grated cheese.
10. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
11. We put in the oven. Baking gratin at 180 to a brown crust on top.
Cauliflower and Broccoli Gratin
For this dish uses two types of cabbage. The recipe is simple, does not require cooking sauce on the stove. To reduce the calorie content of the dish, you can exclude the first layer of fried onions or replace it with an oven-baked vegetable with a small amount of butter.
Ingredients
• 300 g of cauliflower;
• 300 g broccoli;
• 0.3 liters of cow's milk; • 100 grams of cheese;
• 2 bulbs;
• 20 g of rusks;
• 2 spoons plums. oils;
• spices;
• 2 eggs.
Cooking
1. Disassemble both types of cabbage, boil together in the same pan for exactly 4 minutes.
2. Onion cut into half rings, fry in butter in a frying pan. You can immediately put in the form as the first layer.
3. On the top of the onion lay out inflorescences of all types of cabbage mixed.
4. Whip eggs with spices, whisk, add milk and half grated cheese.
5. Fill the dish with a talker.
6. The remaining cheese is mixed with crackers, pour the casserole on top, so that a beautiful and crisp crust appears on it.
7. Put the dish in the oven, bake at 200 degrees.
Cauliflower shrimp gratin
Variant of very gentle gratin with creamy taste and aroma of shrimps. At the same time they need quite a bit. You can take small seafood or large, there is no particular difference.
Ingredients
• 700 g of inflorescences of cabbage;
• 200 g shrimp;
• 300 ml of cream;
• 2 eggs;
• 150 grams of cheese;
• 2 pieces of stale bread;
• salt pepper;
• garlic clove;
• 3 sprigs of dill;
• a piece of butter.
Cooking
1. Boil water, salt, boil cabbage for five minutes, cool.
2. We rub a form with a piece of oil. You can immediately turn on the oven so that it warms to 200 degrees.
3. For the sauce, beat the eggs and cream, salt and pepper. Rub cheese and pour half. Add a clove of garlic and chopped dill. Stir well.
4. Grind crusty bread into crumb, mix with the second part of grated cheese.
5. Shrimp clean, remove the intestinal tube.
6. Fold in the form of cabbage, stick between shrimp inflorescences.
7. Pour gratin sauce.
8. Top make a layer of bread crumbs with cheese.
9. We put baked. On average, it will take about 20-25 minutes, we look at the readiness of the upper grate crust.
Cauliflower and vegetables gratin with bechamel sauce
Another recipe for cauliflower gratin. Also for this dish will need other vegetables. For pouring, simple bechamel sauce based on milk and flour is used. The cheese in the recipe is hard. Ingredients
• 800 g of cabbage;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 onion;
• 1 pepper;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 120 grams of cheese;
• 70 g of oil;
• 1 spoonful of flour;
• 350 ml of milk;
• spices, crackers.
Cooking
1. We leave a spoonful of butter for the sauce, lay out the rest in the pan, send it to the stove.
2. Add the onion sliced in half rings. Shallow is not necessary.
3. Clean the carrots, cut them in circles, but not thick. Sent to the onion, cooking vegetables together for about five minutes. Make sure that nothing is burned. Otherwise, gratin will have an unpleasant taste.
4. Melt the left butter, fry a spoonful of flour on it, add milk, cook the sauce. Salt, pepper, add garlic and almost all cheese, leave 2 tablespoons of grated product for sprinkling.
5. Boil cabbage in ordinary boiling water for five minutes.
6. We put in the form of vegetables fried in oil. Sides need to grease.
7. Cut the pepper in small pieces, pour it on top.
8. Now a layer of boiled cauliflower.
9. Pour over vegetables with cooked bechamel sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese first, then powder with croutons.
10. Fry the gratin until an appetizing crust in the oven.
Cauliflower Gratin - Tips and Tricks
• Cauliflower will taste better and will not lose its attractive appearance, if you add a spoonful of sugar to the water during cooking.
• If the cauliflower is small, you can add other vegetables to the gratin: potatoes, zucchini, eggplant. The dish is prepared even with tomatoes and bell peppers.
• If there are no breadcrumbs, you can cook them yourself. It is necessary to dry the slices of bread in the oven or in the microwave, then grind.
