Cauliflower Cheese Sauce
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5.0
27 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
10 mins
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Cook Time
10 mins
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Servings
5 cups
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Calories
189 kcal
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Course
Condiments
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Cuisine
American
Cauliflower Cheese Sauce
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Do you believe this insanely delicious cheese sauce is all made from a vegetable! Cauliflower! Cauliflower cheese sauce is light, creamy, and cheesy, this sauce is deliciousness overload!
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Ingredients
- 1 cauliflower head broken into florets (about 5-6 cups of florets)
- 7 cloves of garlic minced
- 2 tablespoon butter unsalted
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- ½ cup milk use almond milk for vegan version
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper freshly ground pepper
- ½ cup Parmesan Cheese freshly grated
- 2 tablespoon olive oil optional as needed to loosed the sauce
Instructions
- Rinse whole cauliflower head under tap water.
- Remove the green stem from cauliflower head and break cauliflower into small florets. Keep aside.Note – make sure you have equal sized florets so they cook even.
- Melt butter in a pan. Add minced garlic and saute until garlic is fragrant. Do NOT brown garlic. You only want garlic to soften a bit and release it’s oil. Immediately remove pan from heat and set it aside.Note – browned garlic will give bitter taste to the sauce. DO NOT BROWN IT.
- In a stock pot or large pot bring vegetable broth to boil.
- Add in cauliflower florets. Cook cauliflower in broth on medium heat for about 7 to 8 minutes or until florets are tender.
- Once soften cauliflower florets from the stock. Transfer to a blender.
- Add rest of the ingredients to the blender – sautéed garlic, salt, freshly ground pepper, milk and few tablespoons of hot broth in which cauliflower was cooked.
- Blend until smooth. You can blend the sauce into velvety smooth texture with Vitamix blender!
- Add in Parmesan cheese and some olive oil (it adds more flavor to the sauce) and blend again.
- Serve over your favorite pasta.Note – cauliflower sauce by itself will have the ‘cauliflowery’ taste. Stirring it with foods like pasta (mac n cheese), pouring over roasted broccoli or vegetables works better. You can even stir it in soups to enhance taste and as thickening agent!
Notes
- Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.
- Make sure all florets of cauliflower are same size. It helps cook evenly.
- Do not brown garlic. You want to simply saute garlic in butter until it turns little soft and begin to release it’s oil. Browned garlic will taste bitter.
- Cooking cauliflower in vegetable stock enhances the taste of the sauce.
- Cheese is optional but highly recommended. It makes the sauce taste so much better and cheesy just like the real stuff. Very little cheese, oh it’s still healthy!
- You can totally control the sauce consistency to what you like. If you want velvety smooth creamy texture use a high powered blender like vitamix or blendtec.
- To make vegan version of cauliflower Alfredo sauce, replace butter with olive oil to saute garlic, replace milk with vegan friendly milk like almond milk, and ditch Parmesan cheese.
Nutrition Information
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Calories
189kcal
(9%)
Carbohydrates
11g
(4%)
Protein
7g
(14%)
Fat
14g
(22%)
Saturated Fat
6g
(30%)
Cholesterol
21mg
(7%)
Sodium
1463mg
(61%)
Potassium
402mg
(11%)
Fiber
2g
(8%)
Sugar
5g
(10%)
Vitamin A
658IU
(13%)
Vitamin C
57mg
(63%)
Calcium
179mg
(18%)
Iron
1mg
(6%)
Nutrition Facts
Serving: 5cups
Amount Per Serving
Calories 189 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 189kcal | 9% |
| Carbohydrates | 11g | 4% |
| Protein | 7g | 14% |
| Fat | 14g | 22% |
| Saturated Fat | 6g | 30% |
| Cholesterol | 21mg | 7% |
| Sodium | 1463mg | 61% |
| Potassium | 402mg | 9% |
| Fiber | 2g | 8% |
| Sugar | 5g | 10% |
| Vitamin A | 658IU | 13% |
| Vitamin C | 57mg | 63% |
| Calcium | 179mg | 18% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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5.0
27 reviews
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