How to cook cauliflower in the oven?

Cauliflower is a common annual plant that is often grown and used in cooking. For use in food suitable short flowering shoots, collected in inflorescences. Many people love this product for its taste and healthy qualities, but not everyone knows how to properly cook it in the oven so that it does not lose its properties.

This plant is not only rich in vitamins and minerals, but also has good taste. It consists of both plant proteins and various amino acids, which have a good effect on the metabolic process in the body.

It is often used for weight loss. Therefore, the most valuable quality of cauliflower is calorie. So, for one kilogram of this product accounts for only three hundred kilocalories. For this reason, it is considered a diet food and is often used to prepare low-calorie and PP (good nutrition) dishes.

Good enough cauliflower, which is baked in the oven or oven. It is not only as beautiful and useful as it is raw, but also fully retains all the useful properties.

Cabbage is useful for people with a sick stomach or diabetes. However, with osteochondrosis, it is necessary to carefully include it in your diet, since the cauliflower contains purine acid.

You do not have to follow the recipes that your grandmother invented or read on the Internet - you can always invent something of your own. But in order for the dish to turn out delicious and like everything your homemade, you need to know the rules for combining cauliflower with other ingredients. For example, it goes well with various types of meat: turkey, chicken, and in some cases even minced beef.

It is possible to cook cabbage with any vegetables, be it peppers or tomatoes. If you want a light snack or dinner, after which you will not get over one kilogram, then prepare an appetizing omelet with cauliflower. The combination of this vegetable with an egg turns out simply unsurpassed. And if you make a sauce with sour cream, it will exceed all your expectations.

But there are products that are not at all "friendly" with such an interesting product as cauliflower. This, for example, honey or lard, which are completely incompatible with her taste.

Cooking cauliflower in the oven or in a griddle will not be difficult. The main thing in the preparation of dishes is the correct selection of products and their preparation. For these purposes, suitable both fresh and frozen cabbage.

Buying fresh cauliflower, you need to carefully examine it. If the leaves and buds are soft and sluggish, this means that it is already stale. In order for the dish to be tasty and of high quality, the inflorescences in the cabbage must be resilient and juicy in appearance. If the cabbage is in good condition, it will be either white or milky. The presence of any spots, even very small ones, means that the product starts to rot. All this is worth considering when buying.

Before baking this product, rinse it well. Then, head the cabbage into separate florets and soak for 20–30 minutes in salt water. This is done in order to remove the insects hiding in the shoots, which when lowered, the water will float to its surface.

First you need to boil the cauliflower so that it becomes softer and can bake faster. You need to boil it for about ten minutes. When the product is prepared, you can proceed directly to its preparation.

There are so many interesting ways of cooking this ingredient and combining it with other products. Consider the most delicious of them, which you can not only cook for your household every day, but even serve for the festive table.

Every housewife wants to please her family with something tasty and healthy. This recipe not only pleases with the tastes, but also decorates itself any feast.

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of cabbage;
• 150 ml of regular milk;
• 100 grams of cheese (for example, Parmesan);
• 50 ml thick sour cream;
• 30 g flour;
• 40 g of oil;
• 50 g breadcrumbs;
• pepper and salt are added to taste.

Step-by-step recipe.

• Clean cabbage should be soaked in lightly salted water for half an hour. Then it should be rinsed again and disassembled into separate buds.
• On the stove you need to put a pot of water and bring it to a boil. Next, add a little salt in boiling water and drop the cabbage blossoms into it. It is necessary to cook them for about 10 minutes.

• Then you need to remove the boiled vegetable with a skimmer, put on paper towels or napkins and dry a little with them.
• Hard cheese should be grated on a fine grater and divided into two parts.
• Butter should be a little soften. This can be done in a water bath or steamed. Hot oil should be greased baking sheet.
• Next you need to cook the sauce. To do this, take a dry frying pan, on which you need to pour the flour and fry it until golden brown. In the resulting mixture you need to pour the milk and, stirring carefully, bring to a boil.
• Then you need to add pepper, salt, half of the shabby cheese, and sour cream and stir well again.
• Meanwhile, on the baking sheet you need to decompose the inflorescences of cabbage and smear them with cooked sauce. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs and the second half of the cheese.

• The oven must be preheated to 200 degrees and only after that put a baking sheet in it.
• Bake cauliflower for about 20-25 minutes.

This recipe also amazes everyone with its taste. Such an ingredient as garlic will not only make the dish fragrant, but will also add some piquancy to it.

Ingredients:

• 400 g of cauliflower;
• 200 g of hard cheese;
• 4 garlic cloves;
• 100 g breadcrumbs;
• 40 g of sunflower oil;
• salt and spices - to your liking.

Step-by-step recipe.

• Cauliflower must be prepared for baking in the oven. To do this, you need to soak for 20 minutes in salted water, then rinse and put to cook for ten minutes.
• Then ready to put the cabbage on paper towels and dry it well.

• Next you need to clear the garlic from the husk and cut it into thin slices.
• Half hard cheese must be grated on a fine grater.
• Pots or baking tins should be greased with sunflower oil.
• Then put cabbage blossoms in them, salt and sprinkle with spices.
• The remaining half of the cheese should be cut into slices and put in a blender. Add the garlic and breadcrumbs there and mix everything at the highest speed.

• This mixture is necessary to pour the cabbage, and sprinkle the top with the second half of hard cheese.
• In the oven preheated to 180 degrees, you need to put a baking sheet with pots or molds. Bake them for 20 minutes.

Not everyone loves cabbage itself, so this recipe will allow you to enjoy not only its taste, but also the taste of meat.

Ingredients:

• 500 g cauliflower;
• 300 g minced chicken;
• 100 g smoked bacon;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 100 ml low-fat mayonnaise;
• 20 ml of sunflower oil;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 100 g ordinary onions;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• a bunch of fresh greens;
• pepper and salt to taste.

Step-by-step recipe.

• To cook cauliflower, first you need to wash it and divide it into large inflorescences.
• Then they must be put in boiling water, salt and boil for 10 minutes.
• With the skimmer, the cabbage must be pulled out of the water and blotted with paper towels.
• Onions need to be peeled and cut into small cubes.

• Bacon is cut in the same pieces, and then laid out in a frying pan. Onions are also added there and fried on low heat until they are transparent.
• Greens are also cut very finely.
• In a bowl, you need to put the stuffing and put an egg into it. The mixture should be salt, pepper and mix very thoroughly.
• Garlic must be crushed and also added to the bowl. Chopped greens are also thrown there. Still well mixed.
• Then fried bacon and onions are laid out in this mass, and everything is also mixed. Then you need to put this bowl in the fridge for half an hour.

• Next, you need to fill this gap all the spaces between the buds of cabbage.
• Then you need to lubricate the baking sheet with sunflower oil and put on it very carefully filled inflorescences.
• Grated hard cheese must be mixed with mayonnaise and each inflorescence is abundantly smeared with this mixture.
• In the preheated oven must put a baking sheet.
• Bake this dish for at least 30 minutes so that the crust becomes brown and crispy.

After that, you can serve the casserole on the table, and it will be tasty both hot and cold.

Baked cauliflower cooked according to this recipe is a lean dish that is very easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

• 500 g cauliflower;
• 200 g fresh or frozen peas;
• 250 grams of canned corn;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• 20 ml of sunflower oil;
• 40 ml of butter;
• 200 ml of cream;
• salt and spices - to taste;
• a little green.

Step-by-step recipe.

• First you need to wash the cauliflower and separate all the inflorescences.
• Then you need to boil water, salt a little and put cabbage and green peas there. They should be boiled together for 5 minutes.
• After that, you need to remove all the vegetables and fold them in a colander. Then let them dry a little.
• The baking dish should be greased with butter and put cabbage with peas there, while smoothing well.

• The next layer will be canned corn, which also must be evenly decomposed.
• Next, you need to beat the eggs with salt and spices, after which they add cream and finely chopped greens. Then mix all ingredients thoroughly.
• In the end, add cheese grated on a fine grater and stir well again.
• Ready mix you need to pour the cabbage with vegetables, and on top of the whole mass evenly spread the butter cut into small pieces.
• In preheated to 200 degrees oven you need to put the form for the casserole. Baked dish about 25 minutes. You need to cook, looking for the mass to thicken and redden.
• The final touch is the decor. After cooking, sprinkle the dish with plenty of greens: dill and parsley.

It is very difficult to make men eat vegetable dishes, and even with a vegetable like cauliflower. Therefore, many women try to cheat and add to the dishes with this curly beauty minced meat.Such an interesting recipe exactly like every man. Besides, besides meat, he will receive vitamins necessary for the organism.

Ingredients:

• 300 g cauliflower;
• 150 grams of rice (better if it is steamed);
• 300 g of beef or pork mince (minced meat of two types of meat can be used);
• 2 eggs;
• 1 large onion;
• 3 heads of garlic;
• 1 Bulgarian pepper or red, or yellow;
• 100 g sour cream;
• 100 g of hard cheese;
• 25 ml of vegetable oil;
• salt and spices - to taste.

Step-by-step recipe.

• Cauliflower must be disassembled into separate buds and boil for 5–9 minutes.
• In another container, boil rice until fully cooked.

• While rice and cabbage are being cooked, you can make minced meat. To do this, put it in a large bowl, drive one egg, salt and season with spices.
• The onion should be peeled and finely chopped. Then add it to the stuffing and mix well.
• Cooked rice should be cooled and added to the stuffing. Knead the whole mass very thoroughly.
• In another smaller bowl, make the sauce. To do this, mix the grated cheese and sour cream. Add the remaining egg there and also a little salt and pepper.
• The baking sheet should be greased with sunflower oil. Then you need to put a lot of minced meat on it, and on top spread out the inflorescences of cabbage and chopped Bulgarian pepper.
• All this is necessary to pour sauce and cover with a sheet of foil so that the whole baking sheet is covered.

• All this must be put in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and baked for 20 minutes. Then you need to remove the foil and bake for another half hour until golden brown appears.

The finished dish can be served immediately on the table. It will not leave anyone indifferent and will give true pleasure to even men.

This recipe has a great advantage over the hot option: it is much more beneficial for the body, as well as less calorie.

Ingredients:

• 1 cauliflower head;
• 2 eggs;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• 2 tablespoons of flour;
• 20 g of sunflower oil.

Step-by-step recipe.

• Cabbage should be well washed under running water and divided into florets.
• Then boil it in salted water for 5–9 minutes.
• In a small bowl, beat the eggs, and then slowly add the flour to them, continuing to beat the thick sour cream.

• You need to grease the baking sheet with sunflower oil and cover it with parchment paper.
• Then each inflorescence must be dipped in a batter and put on a baking sheet.
• In an oven warmed to 170 degrees, you need to send a baking sheet and bake the dish for 25-30 minutes.

Ready-made cauliflower can be immediately laid out on plates and served on the table. Sour cream or cheese sauce will be a great addition to the dish.

When preparing cauliflower dishes, do not neglect the advice of experienced chefs, After all, they do not harm, but only help to cook it more tasty and useful.

• Cooking meat casserole with cauliflower, you can slightly move away from the recipe and add mushrooms or a few slices of ham.
• This also applies to classic casseroles. You can add fried or boiled chicken. In such a dish, vegetables such as tomatoes or mushrooms, or even asparagus beans will be perfectly combined.

• To prevent cauliflower blossoms from losing their color during cooking and not darkening, you can add a few drops of freshly squeezed lemon juice to water.
• If the cabbage is not cooked and steamed before baking, it will save a lot more nutrients. In this case, the taste of this will not get worse, because all the additional ingredients will be added at the stage of roasting.
• It is worth harvesting cauliflower for the winter to pamper yourself with delicious dishes.
• If there is no time to disassemble the cabbage into pieces, you can boil it whole and stuff it with any fillings, and then bake in the oven.It is also possible to somehow beat when serving, decorating the cabbage in an unusual way.
• In order for the crust in the casserole to turn out golden and crispy, it is necessary to adhere to the baking time indicated in the recipes.

As can be seen from the above, cauliflower is so useful to a person that it must be used without fail for cooking, especially for baking in the oven. At home, you can cook a large number of dishes from this vegetable, one has only to turn on the fantasy.

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