Natural vitamins are very necessary for our body. Such vegetable as cauliflower can boast of rich content of various groups of vitamins. Recipes for its preparation are distinguished by their variety and a large selection of options.
Everybody can use cauliflower fearlessly: children, the elderly, and nursing mothers, the sick and recovering. Cabbage can serve as the first baby lure, both independently and in combination with other vegetables: carrots, zucchini, potatoes.
Harm and Benefit
Cauliflower can be cooked a great variety of various dishes. Usually cauliflower in a creamy sauce served as a full breakfast or a light dinner. Especially popular this dish is used by people who adhere to a healthy diet or vegetarians.
Studies of the chemical composition of this product showed that cauliflower contains proteins and carbohydrates, as well as a high content of mineral salts. Amino acids and nitrogenous compounds are easily absorbed by our body and have a positive effect on metabolic processes.
The inflorescences of this vegetable contain the necessary substances to reduce blood sugar, and antioxidants and chlorophyll have a unique anti-cancer effect.
The energy value of cauliflower is 30 kcal per 100 grams. But what is the ratio of proteins, carbohydrates and fats:
Protein - 2.5.- Carbohydrates - 4.2.
- Fat - 0.2.
Protein - 2.5.As seen, Cauliflower - a truly dietary product! It also contains mono- and disaccharides, NLC — Saturated fatty acids, PUFA — polyunsaturated fatty acids, ash, starch, water, organic acids, dietary fiber, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, copper, manganese, fluorine, selenium, zinc, iron.
There are also contraindications to the use of cauliflower dishes. For example, this vegetable is not recommended to use with high acidity of gastric juice. Often, cauliflower dishes cause deterioration of the health of patients with peptic ulcer and gastritis. Also this product can increase the size of stones with urolithiasis.
Heartburn is the first symptom that a cauliflower dish does not benefit.
Do not forget that this dish contains not only cabbage, but also cream. The use of cream is not recommended for those people with milk protein intolerance. In addition, this product is very fat, and therefore in the list of contraindications will be liver disease and atherosclerosis.
Let's look at some of the most popular recipes for making this priceless vegetable.
Recipe with photos
Once you try to cook this dish and it will become a pleasant and tasty tradition for the whole family.
We will need:
- 1 kg of cauliflower.
- 300 ml of cream.
- 150 ml of milk.
- 50 grams of butter.
- 3 dining boats flour.
- A few pieces of cloves and black pepper peas.
- Bay leaf.
- Nutmeg.
- Salt to taste.
Cooking:
- Separate small inflorescences from one cauliflower head and wash them with water.
- Boil them until half ready.
- Separately mix cream and milk, add bay leaf, cloves and pepper-peas.
- Heat and as soon as boils, turn off the fire.
- In the meantime, while our mixture absorbs all the richness of flavors, we melt the butter and gradually pour flour into it.
- Carefully filter the mixture of milk and cream to remove the spices.
- Combine both mixtures and boil again.
- Add the nutmeg to the resulting mass and mix everything well.
- Put the cauliflower pieces on a baking sheet and fill them with our dressing.
- We put in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. Preparation takes about 30 minutes.
- When ready, you can sprinkle with fresh herbs, decorate with sprigs of dill.
This dish will appreciate both adults and children. Enjoy your meal!
Variations
And what if you want to experiment with tastes and a variety of dishes? Cauliflower can be prepared with a different combination of products.
- With cheese. To the above recipe, you can add 150 grams of grated cheese. To do this, simply pour the prepared cauliflower sauce and sprinkle with cheese on top. Bright and tasty cheese crust will please the eye and will look great even on a festive table. There are many other options for cooking cauliflower (for more information about the recipes for cooking cauliflower with cheese, see here, as well as more information about recipes for baked cauliflower with minced meat and vegetables can be found in this material.
- With breadcrumbs. This cooking option is different in that the cabbage is first mixed with a beaten egg, and then sprinkled with breadcrumbs. More details on how to cook cauliflower with breadcrumbs in the oven can be found in this material.
- With mushrooms. If you add a roast of mushrooms and onions to the cauliflower, and top it all with a classic sauce, you get a very satisfying and not very high-calorie casserole.
- With broccoli. This vegetable will add a special flavor to cauliflower and beautifully emphasize the saturation of shades.
- With Chiken. If you put cauliflower blossoms on the chicken fillet and fill with creamy sauce, you can get an incredibly tasty independent dish. In this case, baking will take a little more time. You can also bake cauliflower with chicken and other recipes. More details about the recipes for baking cauliflower with chicken can be found in this material.
To make the cheese crust bright and crispy, you need to mix the grated cheese with a small amount of breadcrumbs.
Quick preparation
Cheese Casserole in Cream Sauce
Ingredients:
- 1 cauliflower head;
- 100 gr. cream;
- some vegetable oil;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- salt, pepper to taste.
Cooking:
- Rinse the cabbage and bring to a boil.
- Grate the cheese.
- Lubricate the baking dish and lay it florets.
- Mix the cheese, cream, salt and pepper and pour the cabbage with this mixture.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees.
We offer to watch a video on how to cook cauliflower in the oven, baked in cream:
There are other options for cauliflower casseroles. For more information about recipes cauliflower casseroles with different types of meat in the oven can be found in this material.
With mayonnaise
Ingredients:
- 1 head of cabbage;
- mayonnaise;
- cheese.
Cooking:
- Boil the cabbage in salted water and drain in a colander.
- Lubricate the form, put the inflorescences, salt to taste and pour mayonnaise.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese and place in the oven at 180 degrees. 20 minutes and the dish is ready!
With bell pepper
Ingredients:
- head of cabbage;
- Bulgarian pepper;
- egg;
- cheese;
- spice.
Cooking:
- Cabbage boil until soft.
- Stir in chopped straws.
- Separately, beat eggs with spices.
- Add cheese.
- Pour the mixture of vegetables in a pre-lubricated form.
- Sprinkle with cheese.
- Send everything to the oven until ready. Enjoy your meal!
To make the cabbage white after cooking, you need to add a teaspoon of sugar to the water.
We offer to watch a video on how to cook cauliflower baked with pepper:
- Recipes for cooking cauliflower with potatoes and other vegetables.
- Quick cauliflower recipes with minced meat and vegetables.
- Dietary dishes from cauliflower.
- Appetizing and healthy cauliflower omelet recipes.
- A detailed recipe for cauliflower in bechamel sauce.
- Recipes for frozen cauliflower.
How to submit a dish?
Cauliflower casserole in a creamy sauce can be served as a side dish to fish, meat, rice or potatoes. And it is possible and as a separate independent dish. Best is to have a hot casserole. But in the cold video, it will be just as tasty and attractive.
Avicenna also recommended cauliflower for winter meals. For many centuries this vegetable was grown only in Arab countries. When the cabbage was brought to Russia, under Catherine II, it grew only in the gardens of a few nobles. Her seeds at fabulous prices were discharged from Malta. In our time, the vegetable has gained universal popularity for its unique taste and healthy composition.
