Potato And Cauliflower Bake
Try this delicious potato and cauliflower bake that is the perfect side dish for any occasion! Easy to make and full of cheesy goodness.
Servings: 8
Calories: 339kcal
Ingredients
- 6 large potatoes Note 1
Cream Sauce
- 2 cups/500 ml heavy cream Note 2
- 2 teaspoons mustard powder Note 3
- 2 teaspoons dried chives Note 4
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder Note 5
- ¼ teaspoon salt Note 6
- ½ teaspoon black pepper also Note 6
- ½ large onion skin peeled and finely diced, Note 7
- 1 medium head cauliflower stem removed, cut into florets or chunky pieces, Note 8
Cheese Topping
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese Note 9
- 1 cup colby cheese (colby jack) Note 10
Instructions
- Preheat the oven: preheat the oven to 180°C / 350-375°F / Gas Mark 4-5.
- Baking dish: spray a large baking dish with cooking spray then set aside.
- Potatoes: use a vegetable peeler and cutting board to peel the potatoes and discard the skins. Then use a mandolin to thinly slice the potatoes.
- Cauliflower: use a knife and cutting board to remove the stem from the base of the cauliflower. Then chop the whole head into florets and small chunky pieces.
- Cream sauce: pour the cream into a large mixing bowl. Then add the mustard powder, dried chives, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Stir till consistently combined then set aside.
- Vegetables: add the sliced potato, cauliflower pieces and diced onion to a large mixing bowl. Then use a wooden spoon to stir till consistently mixed.
- Combine: pour the cream sauce over the combined vegetables and stir until it is consistently combined.
- Oven bake: transfer the combined potato, cauliflower, onion and sauce mixture into the greased baking dish. Gently push the surface pieces down slightly so that they are in a reasonably flat layer. Then place the baking dish into the preheated oven on the middle shelf and let it bake for 50 mins. Once the cooking time is up, use oven mitts to remove the cauliflower bake and place it onto a heatproof surface. Use a skewer and insert it through a thick part of the potato bake. Ensure it slides straight through easily. If it doesn't, return the dish to the oven until a retest achieves this.
- Cheese topping: sprinkle the mozzarella cheese over the cooked potato cauliflower bake followed by the grated colby cheese. Then place the baking dish back into the oven for 10 minutes (same temperature as earlier). Let the cheese melt and the surface of the potato bake turn a light golden brown. Then use the oven mitts again to remove the baking dish and place it onto a heatproof surface.
- To serve: allow the potato bake to cool for around 10 minutes (the sauce will stop bubbling and thicken during this time). Then garnish with chopped parsley and place in the centre of the table with a large spoon to serve.
Notes
- Note 1 - Potatoes: we want to use regular washed potatoes for the recipe. We simply need to peel them, discard the skins and then use a mandolin to finely slice them. These steps are shown in the process shots throughout the post.
- Note 2 - Cream: we want to use cooking cream for the recipe. It makes it so easy to have this one ingredient and not use multiple ingredients like milk, flour and butter to create a creamy sauce!
- Note 3 - Mustard powder: the mustard powder is a complimentary flavor to the other dried seasonings. As a combination that work especially well together.
- Note 4 - Dried chives: from the herbs and spices section of the supermarket. You can use fresh if you prefer and or garnish with fresh chopped chives in place of the chopped parsley seen in the photos.
- Note 5 - Garlic powder: a fantastic pantry staple that has a lot of flavor going for it!
- Note 6 - Salt and pepper: we use salt and a little bit of black pepper for seasoning in the recipe. Cooking salt is recommended over table salt.
- Note 7 - Cauliflower: we want to use a whole cauliflower which we discard the stem from and then roughly chop into pieces. All of the white parts of the cauliflower can be used and we don't cook this before adding it to the sliced potatoes.
- Note 8 - Onion: we want to peel and dice half of a large onion and add that to the mix. Or for the flavor but no onion texture you can add 1 teaspoon onion powder to the creamy sauce and omit the onion as a vegetable.
- Note 9 - Mozzarella cheese: this cheese is known for being stringy and melt worthy. It does not however, have a very strong flavor. Hence we use a combination of 2 cheeses for the topping. You can reduce the amount to ½ cup if you wish too (same with the colby cheese below).
- Note 10 - Colby cheese: this is a great melting cheese that does have a strong cheese flavor to it
Nutrition
Calories: 339kcal | Carbohydrates: 8g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 30g | Saturated Fat: 19g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 94mg | Sodium: 299mg | Potassium: 363mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 4g | Vitamin A: 1976IU | Vitamin C: 44mg | Calcium: 253mg | Iron: 1mg