Cauliflower is valued not only for its rich vitamin and mineral composition, but also for its excellent taste. In addition, dishes from it are prepared quite simply and quickly. Especially good cauliflower baked in the oven, because with this method of cooking, it not only turns out beautiful and appetizing, but also retains its useful properties.
Cooking Features
Bake the cauliflower in the oven is easy. The main thing is to choose it correctly and prepare it for baking.
- When buying fresh cauliflower, it is worth exploring and touching it. Sluggish and soft leaves and inflorescences indicate that the product is not so fresh. Inflorescences should be elastic, leaves - juicy. Also, when examining a vegetable, one should pay attention to the color of the inflorescences. They should be monochromatic, white or milky (it depends on the cabbage variety). But the presence of dark spots, even if they are very small, should be alerted: these are signs of rot, which tend to spread very quickly.
- Before baking, cauliflower must be thoroughly cold processed, namely washed, disassembled into inflorescences and soaked in salted water for 20 minutes to prevent pests from entering the dish - insects will float up and be easily removed.
- Cauliflower will bake for a long time and may remain hard if it is not boiled first. Boil the cabbage in salted water until half cooked. It usually takes 10 minutes. Frozen cauliflower can be boiled without defrosting.
- If the cauliflower is baked in milk or sour cream, it will turn out much softer and softer.
The specific features of cauliflower roasting technology may depend on the specific recipe.
Cauliflower baked in the oven with cheese
Composition:
- cauliflower - 1 kg;
- milk - 150 ml;
- cheese - 100 g;
- sour cream - 50 ml;
- flour - 30 g;
- butter - 40 g;
- breadcrumbs - 50 g;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Soak the cabbage in salt water for 20 minutes, then wash it and disassemble it into florets.
- Dip cabbage into boiling salted water, cook for 10 minutes, remove with a slotted spoon.
- Pat dry with paper towels.
- On a fine grater, rub the cheese, divide in half.
- Soften the butter by heating it with steam or a water bath. Grease a baking tray with it.
- Add flour to a dry frying pan, fry it until it changes color. Dilute the flour with milk and, while stirring, wait until it boils.
- Add salt, pepper, sour cream and half grated cheese, mix.
- Place cabbage inflorescences on baking sheet. Grease them with sauce. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and the remaining cheese.
- Place the baking tray in the oven heated to 200 degrees. Bake the cabbage for 20 minutes.
Cabbage prepared according to this recipe can be served as a separate dish or instead of a side dish.
Cauliflower baked with garlic and cheese
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0, 4 kg;
- cheese (necessarily hard) - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 4 cloves;
- breadcrumbs - 100 g;
- vegetable oil - 40 ml;
- salt, spices - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Prepare the cabbage for baking, dividing it into florets, washing, boiling until half cooked, drying it with a towel.
- Peel the garlic and cut into thin plates.
- Rub the cheese using a fine-grained grater.
- Oil the baking pans or small pots.
- Spread in cauliflower inflorescences, salt and pepper.
- Cut the cheese into small cubes.
- Put cheese and garlic in a blender, add crackers, mix everything at high speed.
- Sprinkle cabbage with garlic-garlic mixture.
- Preheat the oven so that the temperature reaches 180 degrees.
- Place pots or forms on a baking sheet and send it to the oven.
- Cook in the oven for 20 minutes.
Served cauliflower baked with garlic and cheese according to this recipe, in portions, preferably in the same forms in which it was prepared.
Cauliflower baked with minced meat
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0.5 kg;
- minced meat (chicken can) - 0, 3 kg;
- smoked bacon - 100 g;
- hard cheese - 100 g;
- mayonnaise - 100 ml;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- chicken egg - 1 pc .;
- bulb onion - 100 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- fresh greens - to taste;
- salt, ground black pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash the cabbage. Divide into large inflorescences. Dip them in boiling salted water, cook for 5 minutes and remove with a slotted spoon. Let the water flow out.
- Peel the onion and cut into small cubes.
- Cut the bacon into small pieces.
- Put bacon with onions in a frying pan, put it on low heat. Fry the bacon with onions until the onions become translucent.
- Finely chop the greens with a knife.
- Place minced meat in a bowl, break an egg into it, salt and pepper, mix well.
- Crush the garlic and add to the mince, put the greens in the same place, mix again.
- Fry onion and bacon in a bowl with minced meat, mix everything thoroughly and place in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Carefully fill the ground meat with small gaps between the cauliflower buds.
- Lubricate the baking dish with vegetable oil. Put in shape inflorescences.
- Finely rub the cheese and mix it with mayonnaise. Thickly smear each inflorescence with the resulting mixture.
- Heat the oven to 180 degrees and place a cauliflower in it. Bake the dish for 25-30 minutes, until the cabbage is covered with a ruddy cheese crust.
Such a dish will be delicious even cold, so it can be served at the buffet table. However, it is best to serve it hot as a separate dish. No meat, no side dish to it is not necessary.
Cauliflower baked in the oven with green peas and corn
Composition:
- cauliflower - 0.5 kg;
- green peas, fresh or frozen - 0, 2 kg;
- canned corn - 0, 25 kg;
- cheese - 100 g;
- chicken eggs - 3 pcs .;
- vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- butter - 40 g;
- cream - 0, 2 l;
- salt, greens, pepper - to taste.
Method of preparation:
- Wash cabbage, divide into very small inflorescences.
- Boil water, salt it, put cabbage and green peas in it, boil them together for 5 minutes.
- Take out a skimmer or fold a cabbage with peas into a colander. Let them dry.
- Lubricate the baking dish with a thin layer of vegetable oil. Put in her cabbage, mixed with peas, smooth.
- Open a can of corn, drain the liquid from it. Spread corn kernels in a thin layer over cabbage and peas.
- Beat chicken eggs with salt and pepper. Add cream, whisk together.
- Finely chop the greens with a knife, add it to the egg-milk mixture. Stir.
- Finely rub the cheese, add it to the mixture of eggs and cream, mix well.
- Pour the resulting mass of vegetables.
- Slice the butter into small pieces, spread them on top of the dish.
- Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and place in it a form with cabbage, peas and corn. Bake for 20-25 minutes until the mass thickens and the dish is browned.
Cauliflower, corn and green peas casseroles should be cut into rectangles and served on plates before serving. The dish is delicious, tender and satisfying.
Cauliflower baked in the oven is a simple dish that can replace a full dinner. It saturates, leaving no heaviness in the stomach.
