Recipe: Whole roasted cauliflower with feta cheese sauce

If you are looking for a vegetarian alternative for a centerpiece roast, then this is a very good option! I looked around for a good recipe for a whole oven roasted cauliflower but couldn’t find a recipe I believed would be great. But a combination of the recipe from Jamie Oliver where I got the idea for the spices and tomato and then the recipe from heartbeat kitchen where I got the idea for boiling it first and of course the feta cheese sauce. I really think this recipe is superior! I only wish it would be faster to prepare so I could make it more often 🙂

Here you can find this recipe in swedish.

Recipe: Whole roasted cauliflower with feta cheese sauce

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Prep Time 30 mins

Cook Time 40 mins

Total Time 1 hr 10 mins

Course Main Course, Main Dish

Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  

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Boiled cauliflower

• 1 head cauliflower around 1000 g
• salt
• 2 tsp black peppercorns
• 1 garlic head
• ½ lemon
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 tbsp olive oil

Cauliflower in the oven

• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 tsp thyme
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• ½ lemon
• 400 g crushed tomatoes

Feta cheese sauce

• 30 g butter 2 tbsp
• 2 tbsp flour
• 250 ml cream
• 500 ml milk
• 150 g feta cheese
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1 tsp rosemary
• 1 pinch nutmeg

Instructions

 

Boiling cauliflower

• Bring a large pot of water to a boil (the cauliflower should fit to float upside down in it)
• Remove the leaves and cut away the bottom core of the cauliflower (important to make it flat so it can stand on its own in the oven)
• Add the remaining ingredients to the pot and place the cauliflower with the core facing up and boil for around 15 min then drain it.

Prepare cauliflower for the oven

• Place the cauliflower in an oven form that fits rather snugly around (we want just enough room for pouring in the tomatoes later on)
• Mince garlic and mix with smoked paprika, thyme and oil. Brush it evenly all over the cauliflower then squeeze the remaining ½ of the lemon over it
• Bake for 30 min then add the crushed tomatoes in the oven form and bake another 10 min

Feta cheese sauce

• While the cauliflower is in the oven you can prepare the feta sauce. Start by melting the butter in a saucepan then whisk in the flour and let it heat up another minute while stirring
• To save some time I usually heat up the milk and cream in the microwave before adding it to the pan. Add salt and rosemary, whisk until smooth and bring to a boil, then turn down the heat and let it simmer for 10 min.
• Add the feta cheese in crumbles and whisk until melted. Cook until melted then finish with a pinch of nutmeg.
• Serve the cauliflower hot and pour over feta cheese sauce!

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