Vegan MoFo IV Day 19: Cauliflower Uncheese

Not a very pretty picture I'm afraid but the taste was all there and packing some let me tell you. 

I steamed some cauliflower then I made up this recipe - Averie's "Spicy Doritos" Cheezy Dip which is AWESOME on it's own but I wanted to make it a bit more saucier for my cauliflower. So I made a béchamal sauce by heating a good dollop of marge in a pan, added a heaping Tablespoon of flour then added enough unsweetened soya milk until I got the right consistency that I wanted. All this was done whilst whisking like a loon.

I like a thick béchamal sauce so I probably only added about half a pint of milk.

Then I added 3 good dollops of Averie's Spicy Doritos Cheezy Dip, a teaspoon of Colman's Mustard then a good half cup of nooch.

Poured this over my cauliflower and baked in a medium hot oven for 25 minutes. 

This recipe was FANTASTIC! If you loved a cheesey cauliflower cheese in you BV (Before Vegan) days then you will love this recipe.

Inspired by an alien and Cauliflower Uncheese

I've owned Hot Damn and Hell Yeah for a few months now but have, until now, not made anything from it. I am a bit of a sucker for seeing photos of recipes to give me a kick up the pants to try them but for some strange unexplained reason a lot of vegan cook books are sadly lacking in the photo department. I know that vegan cook books pack a lot of recipes into their pages but if I'm not gonna be inspired to make the recipes without some visuals then personally I'd prefer a few less recipes and more photos.

Anyhoo - this sounds like I'm moaning and I'm not - so ONTO THE FOOD!

Sal blogged about the Country Tofu recipe on her ace blog - Alien on Toast and it was seeing her gorgeous photos that made up my mind to give this recipe a try. I kind of winged it with the spices too but let me tell you - this recipe is DELICIOSO!

here it is served with some baked new Potatoes, Green Beans and Fried Onions. YUM!

And tonight I made a corker of a recipe that I wanted to share with you all right away. I give you Cauliflower Uncheese. So simple and so delicious.

Cauliflower Uncheese serves 4 Ingredients 1 Large-ish Cauliflower, cut into florets and steamed 400g cooked Chickpeas 1 Clove Garlic 4 Tablespoons Olive Oil +/- Half a cup of Soya Milk or other non dairy milk (though I've only tried this with Soya) 1-2 teaspoons Dry Mustard Powder Salt Black pepper 1 cup of fresh Breadcrumbs Method Place the cooked Cauliflower into an oven proof dish. Whizz up the Chickpeas, Garlic, Olive Oil and Soya Milk with a blender or stick blender. Add the Mustard Powder and season to taste. Add the Sauce to the Cauliflower and coat well. Cover with tin foil and bake in a hot oven for 30 mins. Take off the tin foil and sprinkle on the Breadcrumbs and finish off in the oven so as the Breadcrumbs turn a nice golden colour. Serve and scoff!

Served with Green Beans and Onion and Potato layer

I have also been super busy in the garden this past week and a half but I think that deserves a whole blog post all to itself, so watch this space.

GO VEGAN!