Gratin is a baked dish that has a very tasty crust. The dishes are always cooked in the oven. You can use different vegetables for it. One of the win-win options is cauliflower.
Cauliflower gratin - general principles of preparation
Cabbage is always pre-processed. For this, the head of cabbage is washed, divided into small inflorescences. If necessary, the beams are cut with a knife. The meaty and hard parts are removed. Inflorescences are usually boiled in salted water. You can bake in the oven. Then the pieces are laid in the mold, often other products are added to them.
What is prepared gratin:
• vegetables;
• Fish and seafood;
• mushrooms;
• poultry, meat.
Ingredients in the form are always poured with sauce. Great is the classic bechamel sauce. Often make talkers based on eggs and dairy products. Always add cheese. A small amount is used for sprinkling. Unusual crust make crackers. You can use the finished product for breading or grate stale bread.
Simple Cauliflower Gratin
The recipe for a simple and easy gratin from cauliflower in the oven. The dish is low-calorie, but if necessary, you can replace milk with low-fat cream.
Ingredients
• 1 kg of cabbage inflorescences;
• 2 tsp drain. oils;
• 2 tsp flour;
• 230 ml of milk;
• 50 g of hard cheese;
• 10 ml of vegetable oil .;
• 3 tsp panir. crackers.
Cooking
1. Cover a piece of foil on a baking sheet, spread the cabbage inflorescences in one layer. Sprinkle with vegetable oil, put in the oven for 10 minutes. Temperature 200. Then we take out the baking sheet, turn the inflorescences, bake for another 15 minutes.
2. We shift the cabbage into a baking dish.
3. Melt the butter, add the flour to it, fry it for a minute and dilute it with milk. We warm the sauce for a couple of minutes, season with spices, remove from heat.
4. Add the grated cheese to the sauce, stir.
5. Pour the cabbage with the prepared sauce, sprinkle with breadcrumbs on top.
6. Put gratin in the oven, bake the dish until a beautiful and firm crust is about 25-30 minutes.
7. Remove gratin from the oven. Serve the dish immediately while it is hot.
Cauliflower Gratin with Chicken
A variant of a hearty dish of cauliflower with chicken. There is a lot of cheese in this recipe, the sauce will be thick, saturated.
Ingredients
• 1 forks of cabbage;
• 1 filet;
• 2 tablespoons of crackers;
• 150 g of milk;
• 200 g of cheese;
• 30 g flour;
• salt pepper;
• 50 g of oil.
Cooking
1. Pour water into any pan, two liters are enough, salt, put on fire. After boiling, lay the cabbage inflorescences, boil for 54 minutes. We throw in a colander.
2. Chicken fillet cut into strips, spread on a frying pan and quickly fry until golden brown.
3. Heat the oil, add the flour, fry.
4. As soon as the flour begins to brown, pour the milk. At this stage, the sauce needs to be quickly stirred so that lumps do not form in it.
5. Add salt, pepper. Cook the sauce on a very low fire.
6. We drive the grated cheese, mix well, remove from heat.
7. In the form we place the cabbage inflorescences, in some places we add the chicken fillet. If desired, it can be more than indicated in the recipe.
8. Spread hot thick sauce, level the top layer. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
9. Put the dish in the oven, cook for half an hour, temperature 180.
Cauliflower Gratin with Ham and Potatoes
A variant of nutritious gratin. In order for the potatoes to cook, it is first boiled. You can use any ham.
Ingredients
• 200 g of ham;
• 800 g of potatoes;
• 600 g of cauliflower;
• 300 ml of milk;
• 3 tablespoons of crackers;
• 3 eggs;
• 250 g of cheese;
• pepper, salt.
Cooking
1. We wash cauliflower, can be soaked in salt water, disassemble into small inflorescences, boil in boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain into a colander.
2. Peel the potatoes, cut into 5 mm round plates. Dip in boiling water, boil for 5 minutes.
3. For the sauce, beat the eggs and milk, add the grated cheese. You can grind everything together in a combine.
4. We put potatoes at the bottom of a greased form, pour over the sauce, season with spices.
5. Spread on top a layer of inflorescences of boiled cabbage.
6. Ham cut into strips. We put between the slices of cabbage, the leftovers are scattered on top.
7. Pour gratin with the remaining cheese sauce with eggs and milk.
8. Sprinkle the top with light crackers.
9. We send the dish to bake in the oven, cook for about half an hour, look at the color of the top layer.
Cauliflower gratin with champignons
In fact, for this gratin, you can use not only mushrooms, but also any other mushrooms to your taste. The dish is very aromatic and tasty. Philadelphia cheese is used for the sauce.
Ingredients
• 2 onion heads;
• 800 g of cabbage;
• 300 g of champignons;
• 150 ml of milk;
• 200 g of Philadelphia cheese;
• 40 g of cheese, you can take Parmesan;
• two eggs;
• 2 tablespoons of crackers;
• 40 ml of oil;
• any spices.
Cooking
1. Cabbage needs to be sorted or cut into small bunches.
2. Put inflorescences in boiling water, boil for 5 minutes. Vegetable must be removed from the water, cool.
3. Pour oil into a skillet, put on a fire.
4. Onions need to be cut into cubes, sprinkled in oil, fry for two minutes.
5. Mushrooms cut into plates, add to the onion. Fry together for about five minutes.
6. Put in the form a layer of cabbage inflorescences.
7. Put a layer of mushrooms and onions on top, fill the voids between the cabbage inflorescences
8. Beat milk with eggs and cheese together, add any spices to the sauce. Pour into the form with the rest of the products.
9. Top make a thin layer of grated cheese.
10. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
11. Put in the oven. The oven is gratin at 180 until golden brown on top.
Cauliflower and Broccoli Gratin
Two types of cabbage are used for this dish. The recipe is simple, does not require cooking sauce on the stove. To reduce the calorie content of the dish, you can exclude the first layer of fried onions or replace it with a baked vegetable in the oven with a small amount of oil.
Ingredients
• 300 g of cauliflower;
• 300 g of broccoli;
• 0.3 l of cow's milk;
• 100 g of cheese;
• 2 onions;
• 20 g crackers;
• 2 tablespoons of plums. oils;
• spices;
• 2 eggs.
Cooking
1. We disassemble both types of cabbage, boil together in the same pan for exactly 4 minutes.
2. Onion cut in half rings, fry in butter in a skillet. You can immediately put in the form as the first layer.
3. On top of the onions spread inflorescences of all types of cabbage mixed up.
4. Beat eggs with spices with a whisk, add milk and half the grated cheese.
5. Fill the dish with a chatterbox.
6. The remaining cheese is mixed with crackers, pour the casserole on top, so that a beautiful and crispy crust appears on it.
7. Put the dish in the oven, bake at 200 degrees.
Shrimp gratin with shrimp
A variant of very delicate gratin with a creamy taste and shrimp aroma. However, they need very little. You can take small or large seafood, there is not much difference.
Ingredients
• 700 g of cabbage inflorescences;
• 200 g of shrimp;
• 300 ml cream;
• 2 eggs;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 2 slices of stale bread;
• salt pepper;
• clove of garlic;
• 3 branches of dill;
• a piece of oil.
Cooking
1. Boil water, salt, boil cabbage for five minutes, cool.
2. Rub the mold with a piece of oil. You can immediately turn on the oven so that it warms up to 200 degrees.
3. For the sauce, beat the eggs and cream, salt and pepper mixture. Rub cheese and pour half. Add a clove of garlic and chopped dill. Mix thoroughly.
4. Grind stale bread into crumbs, mix with the second part of grated cheese.
5. Shrimp clean, remove the intestinal tube.
6. Put in the form of cabbage, stick between the inflorescences of shrimp.
7. Pour gratin sauce.
8. Top make a layer of breadcrumbs with cheese.
9. Set to bake. On average, it will take about 20-25 minutes, we look at the readiness of the upper crust of gratin.
Cauliflower and vegetable gratin with bechamel sauce
Another recipe for cauliflower gratin. You will also need other vegetables for this dish. For pouring, a simple bechamel sauce based on milk and flour is used. The cheese in the recipe is hard.
Ingredients
• 800 g of cabbage;
• 2 carrots;
• 1 onion;
• 1 pepper;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 120 g of cheese;
• 70 g of oil;
• 1 spoon of flour;
• 350 ml of milk;
• spices, crackers.
Cooking
1. We leave a spoonful of oil for the sauce, put the rest in a frying pan, send it to the stove.
2. Add the onion cut in half rings. Grind is not necessary.
3. Peel the carrots, cut into circles, but not thickly. We send to the onion, cook the vegetables together for about five minutes. We make sure that nothing burns. Otherwise, gratin will have an unpleasant taste.
4. Melt the left butter, fry a spoonful of flour on it, add milk, cook the sauce. Salt, pepper, add garlic and almost all the cheese, leave 2 tablespoons of grated product for sprinkling.
5. Boil the cabbage in ordinary boiling water for five minutes.
6. Put in a form fried vegetables in oil. Bok needs to be greased.
7. Cut the pepper into small pieces, pour it on top.
8. Now a layer of boiled cauliflower.
9. Pour the vegetables with the prepared bechamel sauce, first sprinkle with grated cheese, then a little dusting with crackers.
10. Fry gratin to a delicious crust in the oven.
Cauliflower gratin - useful tips and tricks
• Cauliflower will be tastier and will not lose its attractive appearance if you add a spoonful of sugar to the water during cooking.
• If cauliflower is small, then other vegetables can be added to gratin: potatoes, zucchini, and eggplant. The dish is cooked even with tomatoes and bell peppers.
• If there are no bread crumbs, you can cook them yourself. It is necessary to dry the slices of bread in the oven or in the microwave, then chop.
