Cauliflower gratin - an easy and tasty option for a vegetable casserole 🥦

Ingredients

Step cooking

Prepare Cauliflower

1. We need a head of cauliflower. Pour water into a deep bowl, add some salt, put the head out and leave for 15 minutes. Thanks to this alkaline solution, we will clean cauliflower from all debris and dirt. After a while, we take out the heads of cabbage, let it dry a little and divide it into small inflorescences.
   
2. Pour two liters of water into the pan, add two tablespoons of salt, send to the fire, let it boil. Then put the cauliflower in the pan. As soon as the water boils again, make a small fire and boil the cabbage for 3 minutes.
   
3. Using a slotted spoon, we transfer the cabbage into an empty clean bowl or simply drain the hot water and fill it with cold. Such a sharp change in temperature will stop the cooking process. Thus, we get semi-finished cabbage, which will reach readiness during baking, but at the same time retain its shape.
   

Cooking sauce

1. In a stewpan with a thick bottom, pour 500 ml of milk, heat to a temperature of 40 degrees. Now melt 50 g of butter. It can be melted on fire in a thick-bottomed stewpan.
   
2. Without removing from the heat, add 40 g of wheat flour to the melted butter and fry the mixture for 3 minutes until a golden color and a pleasant aroma appear. Pour warm milk into this mixture and mix thoroughly with a whisk so that the mass turns out without lumps.
   
3. Bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. As soon as it boils, make the fire minimal and cook for a few more minutes until the milk mass is thickened. Turn off the heat and add salt, nutmeg and ground pepper to taste.
   
4. Grate 150 g of hard cheese and send the third part to the sauce, mix everything.
   

Form and bake gratin

1. Now we will form the dish. We used a round baking dish with a diameter of 28 cm. With the first layer we spread the third part of the sauce into the mold and distribute it with an even layer.
   
2. Then spread all the cabbage. Pour it with the remaining sauce, distribute evenly over the surface. To the remaining cheese, add 20-40 g of breadcrumbs, mix and cover the cabbage with an even layer.
   
3. Cut 20 g butter into small pieces and spread on top of the workpiece. We send it to the oven, heated to 175 degrees, and bake for half an hour until golden brown.
   
4. We take out the form from the oven, let the gratin cool down a bit and can serve. Use fresh parsley leaves for decoration.
   

Video recipe

And now we offer to watch the process of making cauliflower gratin using this short video. You will see how boiled cabbage turns out. What is the consistency of the finished sauce.