Cauliflower is tasty and healthy, it enriches the diet with vitamins, minerals and nutrients important for health. Soups, casseroles, snacks - everywhere cabbage will be good.
One of the most simple and delicious dishes that you should definitely cook regularly is a cauliflower casserole with egg and cheese in the oven. Even those who do not particularly like vegetables or treat cauliflower with pleasure will eat it with pleasure. For future moms, this dish is simply indispensable as an excellent source of folic acid and protein.
A nourishing, healthy, beautiful cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven perfectly matches the healthy diet. Unlike many healthy, but tasteless dishes, it will delight you with a crisp crust and juicy filling.
Cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven - the general principles of cooking
To prepare the dish, you will need medium-sized cabbage forks. Pre-cabbage washed, cut off the thick hard leaves and disassembled on the buds. If you send raw cabbage into the oven, you will have to wait for its softening for a very long time - about an hour, and you will have to add water to the baking tray. Cauliflower has a dense structure and, despite its juiciness, is cooked in water.
Therefore, cabbage "flowers" need to be pre-cooked, filled with salted water. Only then can the casserole be collected in the form.
Mandatory components of the dish are eggs and cheese, which you can use any. The main thing is that it melts easily. It will also take a milk component to create an omelette base for baking. This may be milk, cream, sour cream.
You can additionally diversify the basic recipe with your favorite vegetables, spices, mushrooms, meat. By the way, the meat version of cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven is an excellent balanced dinner.
The dish is baked in an oven heated to 200 degrees until the cheese crumb is melted and browned. Depending on the power of the devices and the temperature of the room at this takes from 20 to 30 minutes.
Cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven on cream
Delicate taste of this dish and ease of preparation have long made the basic recipe for cauliflower with egg and cheese the secret of experienced hostesses. Useful, fast and very tasty!
Ingredients:
• medium cauliflower forks;
• half a cup of cream;
• 150 grams of semi-hard cheese;
• three eggs;
• two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• some salt to taste.
Cooking Method:
Chop or cut the cabbage into small pockets, pour water on two fingers and poison it on the fire.
Salt and boil for ten minutes after boiling.
Pour the cabbage into a colander, pour cold water over it and let it drain.
In a bowl, break the eggs, beat.
Add cream, a pinch of salt and beat again.
Turn on the oven to warm up.
Finely grate a piece of cheese.
Pour the cheese crumb into the beaten eggs, mix with a fork.
Lubricate the form or baking tray on which the casserole will be prepared.
Put boiled cabbage at the bottom of the form so that the inflorescences are looking up.
Pour into the form of an egg-cheese mixture.
Heat-resistant form rearranged in the oven and wait until the egg thickens and roasting cheese.
Remove cauliflower with egg and cheese from the oven, cut into portions and serve.
Cauliflower with egg and cheese on sour cream
If you need to prepare a side dish for boiled or baked meat, cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven will be an excellent solution instead of potatoes and pasta. It is quite possible to submit it separately, so as not to interrupt the tender juiciness of the cabbage under the cheese crust with meat aroma.
Ingredients:
• half a kilo of cauliflower;
• one hundred grams of thin cream;
• one hundred grams of any low-melting cheese;
• one egg;
• ten grams of butter;
• pepper or pepper mixture to your taste;
• salt.
Cooking Method:
Cabbage boil, disassembled on the buds.
Cool boiled cabbage.
Pour an egg in a beating bowl, add sour cream, pepper, salt with a pinch of medium or fine salt and beat well.
Put the oven to warm up.
Grate the cheese piece on the shallow or middle side of the grater.
Spread the bottom and walls of the form with butter so that the cabbage does not burn and is easily removed.
Spread the cabbage on the form, trying to put the inflorescence beautifully, tops up. Pour the cabbage with beaten egg with sour cream.
Fill the casserole with cheese chips.
Put the mold in the oven and wait for the cheese to melt and bake.
Remove from the mold and allow to cool slightly.
Serve warm with meat or fresh tomatoes, Bulgarian pepper.
Cauliflower with Egg, Cheese and Mushrooms
A light, beautiful, nutritious dish is made more satisfying by adding mushrooms. Moreover, the cauliflower with egg and cheese, thanks to the mushroom flavor, becomes even more piquant. The dish is great for a family dinner.
Ingredients:
• cabbage up to a kilogram;
• a pound of mushrooms, fresh, frozen or canned;
• one egg;
• half a cup of liquid;
• bulb onion;
• 150 grams of semi-hard or soft cheese;
• two spoons of sunflower oil;
• two tablespoons of breadcrumbs;
• tablespoon chopped greens;
• salt and pepper.
Cooking Method:
Prepare cabbage for baking as described above.
Cool the cabbage before baking.
While the cabbage is cooling down, turn on the oven at 200 degrees.
Bulb clean and finely chop.
Fresh champignons cut into small pieces or plates, if desired. Frozen mushrooms pre-thaw.
Add oil to the pan, heat it and fry the onion first.
After three minutes, add chopped mushrooms to the onions and fry them all together for another five minutes.
Grate cheese piece.
Egg salt, pour sour cream and beat everything.
Lubricate the form or baking sheet with any oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
Spread boiled cabbage cats on the bottom of the mold.
Put on top a layer of onion-mushroom zazharki.
Spread the rest of the cabbage in the last layer.
Pour the cabbage with egg and sour cream.
Spread cheese crumb over cabbage.
Bake at high temperature (240-250 degrees) for about fifteen minutes.
While the cauliflower is baked with egg and cheese in the oven, chop the herbs.
Serve ready dish, sprinkle with chopped dill and parsley.
Cauliflower with Egg and Spicy Cheese
Lovers of spicy flavored dishes can be offered a garlic version of cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven. Garlic will add spice to the dish, and red pepper spiciness. Ingredients:
• five hundred or six hundred grams of cauliflower;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• two eggs;
• one third cup of milk;
• three cloves of garlic;
• a pinch of red hot pepper;
• salt to taste;
• spices and dried herbs to taste;
• butter for the pan.
Cooking Method:
Cook cauliflower in salted water, condemn.
Cheese grate on the middle side of the grater.
Slice the baking dish with oil and lay out a layer of cabbage dumps.
Beat eggs vigorously with milk and salt.
Angry with cabbage egg base.
Sprinkle with pepper and spices (optional).
Peel and chop the garlic. You can simply chop with a knife.
Spread the garlic mass over the casserole.
Top everything fall asleep cheese crumb.
Send in the oven for about twenty minutes.
Cauliflower with Egg, Cheese, Mushrooms and Tomatoes
A very juicy and tender version of cabbage casserole with cheese and egg will work out if you add tomatoes and cream sauce in the basic recipe. Due to the mushrooms, the dish will also be very satisfying, so it is suitable for lunch, and for a hearty dinner.
Ingredients:
• average cabbage forks;
• three small tomatoes;
• two hundred grams of fresh or frozen mushrooms;
• a glass of high fat cream;
• three eggs;
• two hundred grams of cheese;
• two tablespoons of white flour;
• salt;
• a tablespoon of fresh or dried dill;
• oil for the form.
Cooking Method:
Cook and dry the cabbage.
Drain the water, let the cabbage dry and cool.
Mushrooms cut into small cubes. If it is champignons, then they do not need to be pre-cooked. If it is other mushrooms, they should be boiled for about ten minutes after boiling, and only then chop.
Grease the casserole with butter and put cabbage base there.
On top of the cabbage inflorescences decompose the mushroom layer.
Sprinkle with dill.
Cut the tomatoes into small slices and spread over the casserole.
Beat the eggs in the bowl first, then the cream and flour. You can do this with a mixer so that there are no lumps.
Cream and egg sauce salt, add spices, if you want.
Pour the cabbage sauce with tomatoes and mushrooms.
Grate a piece of cheese and sprinkle with casserole crumbs.
Bake until the cheese crust acquires a pleasant golden color.
Cauliflower with Egg and Meat Cheese
Meat variant cabbage casserole - this is a very satisfying and tasty dish. Both children and men will eat it with pleasure. You can also serve a dish to unexpected guests: it is cooked quickly if ready-made meat is already there. Any meat product goes well with cauliflower: beef, pork, poultry, lamb, rabbit meat. If there is no meat, it can be replaced with ham or sausages.
Ingredients:
• eight hundred grams of cauliflower;
• two hundred grams of boiled meat;
• two hundred grams of cheese;
• two eggs;
• half a cup of cream or full-fat milk;
• salt;
• spices to taste;
• any oil to lubricate the form.
Cooking Method:
Prepare the cabbage as described above.
Cheese piece coarsely grate.
Cut the meat into thin slices or pick at the fibers.
Mix eggs with cream and salt, then beat.
On a lubricated form, spread cabbage dumps.
On top of the cabbage spread meat cubes or fiber.
Sprinkle with pepper or other spices if desired.
Pour all the creamy egg mixture.
Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Bake in preheated oven until golden brown.
Cauliflower with Egg and Cheese in the Oven - Tricks and Tips & Tricks
If there is no fresh cabbage in the house, and you want to eat cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven, you can take a bag of frozen vegetables.
Serve cabbage and cheese casserole can be not only meat, but also with fish, meatballs, sausages. It can also be a side dish of a vegetable dish, such as mashed potatoes.
In the casserole, you can add not only mushrooms or tomatoes, but also zucchini, pepper, eggplant, onions.
