Taffy Cauliflower Cheese

Name: Taffy Cauliflower Cheese
Yield: Serves 2 as a main or 4 as a side
Ingredients: 40 g plain flour; 70 g Parmesan, grated (or replace with more Cheddar, if you prefer); pinch of grated nutmeg; 1 large cauliflower, cut into large florets; 2 leeks, trimmed and cut into 1cm slices; salt and black pepper; 40 g butter; 6 rashers of streaky bacon, diced; 100 g mature Cheddar, grated, plus extra for sprinkling on top; 1 tsp English mustard; 500–550 ml whole milk

Preparation info

Serves
2
as a main

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Autumn and Winter Cooking with a Veg Box (Riverford Companions)

By Guy Watson

Published 2015

About

Soothing and reassuringly simple to make, plain cauliflower cheese is comfort food at its best, but there are also lots of possibilities for jazzing it up. The leeks here can be replaced by practically any greens you have in your veg box –other variations.

Ingredients

1 large cauliflower, cut into large florets
6 rashers of streaky bacon, diced
2 leeks, trimmed and cut into 1cm slices

Main course
Side dish

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/Gas 6.

Boil or steam the cauliflower for about 4 minutes, leaving it with a good bite.

Fry the bacon in its own fat until just turning crispy. Blanch the leeks in boiling salted water for 4–5 minutes, until jus