Creamy vegan cauliflower casserole
We do believe in the power of veggies and, in our opinion, cauliflower is the hero between all of them. You can “rice” it, you can make it into pizza crust, you can use it instead of potatoes for a low-carb mash and you can even steam it, freeze it and then blend it for a veggie-packed smoothie. With his slightly sweet flavor, it’s such a versatile ingredient. In this recipe, anyway, cauliflower is not used to resemble anything else but just to celebrate his awesomeness. You just have to steam it and then cover it in a “cheesy” macadamia + nutritional yeast sauce until crisped and flavored up. It’s basically potato gratin, but made out of cauliflower. Serve it at a party as a side dish instead of the usual potato salad. Even the pickiest of the eater is it going to love it. Promise.
1 hour 40 minutes
Ingredients
Ingredients
- 1medium head of cauliflower
- 2leeks
- 2 tspghee or olive oil
- 60 gmacadamia nuts
- 300 gwater
- 3 tbspnutritional yeast
- 1/2 tsp dijion mustard
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
- pink salt
- black pepper
- fresh parsley, to serve
For the topping
- 2 tbspalmond flour
- 2 tbspnutritional yeast
- 2 tspghee or olive oil
- 1/2 tsp dried thyme
Steps
STEP 1
Soak macadamia nuts in hot water for at least 1 hour.
STEP 2
Trim cauliflower into florets and wash them well.
STEP 3
Place the cauliflower florets into the basket for steam cooking of the microwave, set 300g as weight and steam until cooked through.
STEP 4
In the meantime, chop leeks and sauté them in 2 tsp ghee with a pinch of salt and tried thyme until nice and soft.
STEP 5
Rinse and drain macadamia nuts and blend them with water, dijon, salt, black pepper and nutritional yeast in a high speed blender until you get a clump-less sauce.
STEP 6
When cauliflower is it going to be cooked, pour out the steaming basket out of the microwave and carefully place florets, drained well from cooking water, in a microwave safe baking tin.
STEP 7
Add a pinch of salt and cooked leeks and mix everything together. Cover with the macadamia sauce.
STEP 8
In a small bowl, mix together almond flour, nutritional yeast, dried thyme, salt and ghee until you get crumbs.
STEP 9
Top the cauliflower covered in sauce with the nut crumbs and bake it on “COMBI” mood for 20 minutes. When ready, top it with fresh parsley and serve warm.
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