{"id":2689,"date":"2024-10-13T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T15:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2024-10-13T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T15:47:04","slug":"cauliflower-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/2024\/10\/13\/cauliflower-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Cauliflower Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Great as a dish within roast dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ingredients<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>1 large cauliflower (leaves cut off), broken into pieces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>500ml milk<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>4 tbsp flour<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>50g butter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>100g strong cheddar, grated<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2-3 tbsp breadcrumbs, if you have them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Bring a large\u00a0saucepan\u00a0of water to the boil, then add 1 large cauliflower, broken into pieces, and cook for 5 mins \u2013 lift out a piece to test, it should be cooked.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Drain\u00a0the cauliflower, then tip into an ovenproof dish. Heat oven to 220C\/200C\/gas 7.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Put the saucepan back on the heat and add 500ml milk, 4 tbsp flour and 50g butter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep\u00a0whisking\u00a0fast as the butter melts and the mixture comes to the boil \u2013 the flour will disappear and the sauce will begin to thicken. Whisk for 2 mins while the sauce bubbles and becomes nice and thick.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Turn off the heat, stir in most of the 100g grated cheddar cheese and pour over the cauliflower. Scatter over the remaining cheese, and 2-3 tbsp breadcrumbs if using.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Put in the oven and bake for 20 mins until bubbling.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><em>credit: https:\/\/www.bbcgoodfood.com\/recipes\/cauliflower-cheese-0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great as a dish within roast dinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[99],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-recipes","tag-recipes"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"james","author_link":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/author\/james\/"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89zH1-Hn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameshatton.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}