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Thermomix Recipes for TM5 and TM31 => Vegetarian => Topic started by: judydawn on July 15, 2010, 01:28:20 pm
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Name of Recipe:Pasta & Cauliflower cheese bake
Number of People: Serves 3 as a main or 6 as a side dish
Ingredients:
150g fuselli pasta or similar
1200mls boiling water
250g cauliflower cut into small florets
Small handful of parsley
50g cubed parmesan cheese
1/2 red onion
20g butter
25g plain flour
300mls milk
90g small cubes of tasty cheese
S & P to taste
1 tspn dijon mustard
Preparation:
Place the cauliflower pieces into the varoma dish.
Pour the boiling water into the TM bowl, add the pasta, place the varoma dish in place and cook 10 mins/varoma temp/reverse/speed 1.
Strain the pasta and place it and the cauliflower into a l.5 litre casserole dish.
Chop the parsley by dropping it through the lid onto blades set at speed 7. Mix this in with the pasta and cauliflower.
No need to clean the bowl. Grate the parmesan 10 seconds/speed 9. Set aside for the topping.
Chop the onion 3 seconds/speed 5.
Add the butter and saute 3 mins/100o/speed 1.
Add the flour and cook 1 minute/100o/speed 1.
Turn the machine onto speed 3 and add the milk through the lid.
Program to cook for 6 mins/90o/speed 3
adding the cubes of tasty cheese through the lid at the 4 minute mark.
Add seasonings to taste plus the mustard and stir to combine.
Pour over the ingredients in the casserole dish, sprinkle the parmesan on the top and bake 30 minutes/180oC or until heated through and brown on top.
Photos:
Tips/Hints:
Saw a similar recipe on Taste.com but altered it to suit what I had. :(
Photo is of leftovers hence the top not so brown looking.
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Wonderful recipe for people who are on a budget jd.
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Good work JD - thought that I had commented on this? A good variation of cauliflower cheese :-* :-*
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Thanks for the inspiration... Did this with pasta, cauli, broccoli and pumpkin. I just made the normal cheese sauce and Sprinkled with paprika. Everyone loved it!!!
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Sounds nice hopefulcook. So many variations with something like this easy dish.
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Made this for dinner tonight. Big thumb up from the kids, both want second. Thanks Judy.
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My pleasure Denzelmum.
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This is absolutely the best pasta bake I have ever had! Have made it 3 times already. Twice with cauliflower, one with broccoli. Thanks JD. :)
I'm thinking of doubling the recipe for tonight. Any tips or warnings?
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Glad you liked it sodapop1971. You can double the pasta & the cauliflower - the amount of water will be the same.
For the sauce, grate the cheese 12 sec/speed 9, chop the onion 4 sec/speed 5, still cook out the flour for 1 minute and once the milk is added, cook around 8 minutes and that should do it.
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You are so helpful! Thanks again.
Sharon
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How did I miss this one? Yum thanks JD
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I missed this one too Dede. It is printed ready to go now. :)
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I had somehow missed this one. Made it last night with a combination of cauliflower and broccoli, served with mini tuna loaves and garden salad. Fabulous. Only complaint I heard was that there wasn't enough for seconds so I'm going to double it next time (without guesswork) as doubling instructions are already here. Thanks Sodapop1971 and Judydawn :) :) :)
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JD just found this little gem. I have a whole cauliflower screaming pick me pick me, so guess what I am going to pick him and cook him up. We will have this Wednesday night, Wednesday's is pasta night, well it was last week. LOL
I will add some bacon to it, anything with bacon in makes the dish a success in DS eyes.
Not a menu plan but don't need to buy any of the ingredients.
Thanks Judy
Hally :)
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Wonder if I will win another brownie point from DS Hally :D :D
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I am sure you will, is there anymore room on that cape of yours ;D
Hally
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This is in the oven now, so will just need to heat and serve later. I dont get home until 6pm on a Wednesday night after DS tennis so I like to have something prepared earlier.
I doubled the recipe to make sure there was heaps for the 3 of us.
I added some bacon and 1 cooked chopped chicken breast too.
I think it's going to be yummy.
Hally
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Well I know I have made it unvegetarian but it is yummy.
I am just so impatient couldn't wait for dinner to test it, so dug a small corner out to try, then sneakily patched it so, no-one will know. Well it's only us 3 anyway for dinner tonight.
JD you have one it again, a lovely tasty recipe :)
Thanks
Hally
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Well I know I have made it unvegetarian but it is yummy.
I did too.
Cooked the bacon (roughly chopped) in with the onion (reverse)
Doubled the ingredients successfully (cooking pasta with same water amount), and once milk added, cooked for 10 minutes....All in reverse
(http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt266/nachothecat/104_6192.jpg?t=1312884742)
Kids ate it....so it's a win ;)
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Im going to make this tonight, Hope the local shop has Cauliflower.
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Thanks JD. I made a double batch of this for dinner tonight and it was great. 2 of us had it as a main course and the others had it with some grilled chicken as a side, and I've got some left over for lunch. I loved the method of cooking the pastaand steaming at once . . . and of course you know I'm babysitting my mum's tmx at the moment, so I made the sauce in hers at the the same time too. Having said that, you would have less washing up with only one tmx in play!
I took a photo on my mobile phone and will upload it, but it's a pretty awful pic--the parlsey stuck on the side of the dish looks like a piece of grass!
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You're just too clever with your photos now Lellyj :D As long as it tasted good, that's the main thing. Glad you enjoyed it.
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You're just too clever with your photos now Lellyj
Thanks Judydawn! It took me a while to crack that one. ;)
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Oops, another one I've missed and would like to try. :'(
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Made this agiain tonight with a cup and a half of chopped Christmas ham added to the sauce at the end. Very yummy. Thanks again, Judy.
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Great idea Lelly - that gives me an idea for tomorrow's lunch to get rid of some cauli and the last of the ham. I might as well throw some peas in as well.
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Made this last night for dinner with diced ham added as JD suggested in one of her other posts. Didn't worry about the quantities of cauliflower or pasta (was over but not quite doubled) and made a double mix of the sauce. Just sprinkled the diced ham over the pasta and cauli. Easy, quick, makes a substantial amount and was very tasty. Will definitely make again. A great recipe that can be adapted to use up all sorts of leftovers.
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I made this for supper tonight.Really delicious recipe.Thank you Judy :-* :-*
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My pleasure CC, had forgotten about this one ;D
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Me too. I remember when you could try almost every new recipe posted. Now we are so lucky and have heaps and heaps of lovely things to try. I used to have a list but it just got longer and longer so I gave up.
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Yes gone are the days when you have roast on Sunday, shepherd's pie on Tuesdays, chops on Wednesday etc etc like they did in the old days. Our families are fortunate enough to have Mums who love cooking and their meals are always different.
DD was visiting my DH one night in the home and said his shepherds pie for tea looked and smelled amazing. He just turned his nose up at it - why, because he probably gets it as regularly as once a week now. It's one of my GD's favourite meals, bet she would have eaten it if he'd offered it to her.
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I made this again last night. Doubled the recipe and added broccoli. I had a small serve and the three teenagers ate the rest :o Served with grilled tomato and a few strips of bacon for those who needed meat on their on their plate. A great dish scoffed by all. Thanks Judy :)
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My pleasure Gayle, happy to hear your family like it.
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This looks very tasty. I'm planning on making it as a BBQ side and will serve with salad. Thanks for the recipe. :)
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Made this with cauli and asparagus and used some red lentil spiral pasta. When it goes cold and firms up I’ll cut it into individual meal portions (8 for me) for the freezer then reheat in the air fryer each time.
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I don't know that I was even aware that this recipe existed, Judy, but now that you have brought it to my attention there is no choice, I will just have to make it!
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I’d forgotten about it too Judy. Thanks for the bump.
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We forget so many recipes don’t we. It pays to have a browse every now and then and I’ve been doing that lately.