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Pasta & cauliflower cheese bake

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judydawn:
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.

Cornish Cream:
Wonderful recipe for people who are on a budget jd.

Thermomixer:
Good work JD - thought that I had commented on this?  A good variation of cauliflower cheese  :-* :-*

hopefulcook:
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!!!

judydawn:
Sounds nice hopefulcook. So many variations with something like this easy dish.

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