Cauliflower is tasty and healthy, it enriches the diet with vitamins, minerals, nutrients that are important for health. Soups, casseroles, snacks - everywhere cabbage will be good.
One of the simplest and most delicious dishes that you should definitely cook regularly is a cauliflower casserole with an egg and cheese in the oven. It will be enjoyed with pleasure even by those who do not particularly like vegetables or who are fond of cauliflower. For expectant mothers, this dish is simply indispensable as an excellent source of folic acid and protein.
Hearty, healthy, beautiful cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven ideally matches a healthy diet. Unlike many healthy but tasteless dishes, it will delight you with a crisp and juicy filling.
Cauliflower with egg and cheese in the oven - general principles of preparation
For cooking, you will need medium-sized cabbage forks. They pre-wash the cabbage, tear off thick hard leaves and take it apart. If you send raw cabbage into the oven, then it will take a very long time to wait for it to soften - about an hour, and you will have to add water to the baking sheet. 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 after that can you collect the casserole in the mold.
Mandatory components of the dish are an egg and cheese, which you can use any. The main thing is that it melts easily. You will need a milk component to create an omelette base for baking. It can be milk, cream, sour cream.
In addition, you can 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 crumbs are melted and browned. Depending on the power of the devices and the room temperature, this one takes from 20 to 30 minutes.
Creamy Cauliflower with Egg and Cream Cheese in an Oven
The gentle taste of this dish and the simplicity of cooking have long made the basic recipe for cauliflower with eggs and cheese the secret of experienced housewives. Useful, fast and very tasty!
Ingredients:
• medium forks of cauliflower;
• half a glass of cream;
• 150 grams of semi-hard cheese;
• three eggs;
• two tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• some salt to taste.
Cooking method:
Cut cabbage or disassemble by hand into small clippings, pour two fingers on water and poison on fire.
Salt and cook after boiling for ten minutes.
Pour the cabbage into a colander, pour cold water 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 heat up.
Finely grate a piece of cheese.
Pour cheese crumbs into beaten eggs, stir with a fork.
Grease the form or baking sheet on which the casserole will be cooked.
Put boiled cabbage at the bottom of the mold so that the inflorescences look up.
Pour the egg and cheese mixture into the mold.
Rearrange the heat-resistant form in the oven and wait for the egg to thicken and cheese to bake.
Remove the cauliflower with egg and cheese from the oven, cut in 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 an egg and cheese in the oven will be an excellent solution instead of potatoes and pasta. It can be served separately so as not to interrupt the meaty aroma of the tender juiciness of cabbage under a cheese crust.
Ingredients:
• a pound of cauliflower;
• one hundred grams of thin sour cream;
• one hundred grams of any low-melting cheese;
• one egg;
• ten grams of butter;
• pepper or a mixture of peppers to your taste;
• salt.
Cooking method:
Boil the cabbage, disassembling it on the hops.
Cool boiled cabbage.
Pour the egg into the whipping bowl, add sour cream, pepper, salt with a pinch of medium or fine salt and beat thoroughly.
Preheat the oven.
Grate the cheese piece on the fine or middle side of the grater.
Lubricate the bottom and walls of the mold with butter so that the cabbage does not burn and is easily removed.
Distribute the cabbage in shape, trying to lay the inflorescences beautifully, with the tops up.
Pour the cabbage with a beaten egg and sour cream.
Cover the casserole with cheese chips.
Put the mold in the oven and wait until the cheese is melted and baked.
Remove from mold and allow to cool slightly.
Serve warm with meat or fresh tomatoes, bell peppers.
Cauliflower with egg, cheese and mushrooms
A light, beautiful, nutritious dish is more satisfying due to the addition of mushrooms. In addition, cauliflower with egg and cheese, thanks to the mushroom aroma, becomes even more piquant. The dish is great for a family dinner.
Ingredients:
• head of cabbage weighing up to a kilogram;
• A pound of mushrooms, fresh, frozen or canned;
• one egg;
• half a glass of liquid;
• onion;
• 150 grams of semi-hard or soft cheese;
• two tablespoons of sunflower oil;
• two spoons of crackers for breading;
• a tablespoon of chopped greens;
• salt and pepper.
Cooking method:
Prepare the cabbage for baking as described above.
Cool the cabbage before baking.
While the cabbage is cooling, turn on the oven 200 degrees.
Peel and finely chop the onion.
Fresh champignons cut into small pieces or slices, if desired. Thaw frozen mushrooms beforehand.
Pour oil into a frying pan, heat it and fry the onions first.
After three minutes, add chopped mushrooms to the onion and fry everything together for another five minutes.
Grate a cheese piece.
Salt the egg, pour the sour cream and beat everything.
Grease a form or a baking sheet with any oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
Spread boiled cabbage cats on the bottom of the mold.
Lay on top a layer of onion-mushroom frying.
Spread the remaining cabbage with the last layer.
Pour the cabbage with egg and sour cream.
Spread the cheese crumbs on the cabbage.
Bake at high temperature (240-250 degrees) for about fifteen minutes.
While cauliflower with egg and cheese is baked in the oven, chop the greens.
Serve the finished dish, sprinkled with chopped dill and parsley.
Cauliflower with egg and cheese "Sharp"
Fans of spicy aromatic dishes can offer a garlic version of cauliflower with an egg and cheese in the oven. Garlic will add spice to the dish, and paprika - spicy.
Ingredients:
• five hundred to six hundred grams of cauliflower;
• one-hundred-piece slice of cheese;
• two eggs;
• a third of a glass of milk;
• three cloves of garlic;
• a pinch of red hot pepper;
• salt to taste;
• spices and dried herbs to taste;
• oil for a baking sheet.
Cooking method:
Boil cauliflower in salt water, condemn.
Grate the cheese on the middle side of the grater.
Lubricate the baking dish with oil and lay out a layer of cabbage.
Beat eggs vigorously with milk and salt.
Pour the cabbage onto the egg base.
Sprinkle with pepper and spices (optional).
Peel and chop the garlic. You can just chop it with a knife.
Distribute the garlic mass over the casserole.
From above, fill everything with cheese crumbs.
Put in the oven for about twenty minutes.
Cauliflower with egg, cheese, mushrooms and tomatoes
A very juicy and tender version of a cabbage casserole with cheese and egg will turn out if you introduce tomatoes and cream sauce in the basic recipe. Due to mushrooms, the dish will also turn out to be very satisfying, so it is suitable for lunch and for a hearty dinner.
Ingredients:
• medium forks of cabbage;
• 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;
• mold oil.
Cooking method:
Boil and drain the cabbage.
Drain, let the cabbage dry and cool.
Finely chop the mushrooms into cubes. If these are champignons, then you do not need to cook them first. If these are other mushrooms, they should be boiled for about ten minutes after boiling, and only then cut.
Lubricate the casserole dish with butter and put the cabbage base there.
On top of cabbage inflorescences spread the mushroom layer.
Sprinkle with dill.
Cut the tomatoes into small slices and spread over the casserole.
Beat eggs in a cup, then cream with flour. You can do this with a mixer so that there are no lumps.
Salt creamy egg sauce, add spices if you want.
Pour the cabbage with tomatoes and mushrooms into the sauce.
Grate a piece of cheese and sprinkle crumbs on a casserole.
Bake until the cheese crust acquires a pleasant goldenness.
Cauliflower with Egg and Meat Cheese
The meat version of the cabbage casserole is a very satisfying and tasty dish. Both children and men will eat it with pleasure. Serve the dish and unexpected guests: it cooks quickly if the finished 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 glass of cream or fat milk;
• salt;
• spices to taste;
• any form-lubricating oil.
Cooking method:
Prepare the cabbage as described above.
Coarsely grate the cheese piece.
Cut the meat into thin sticks or tear into fibers.
Mix the eggs with cream and salt, then beat.
On greased form spread cabbage.
Lay meat cubes or fibers on top of the cabbage.
Sprinkle with pepper or other spices if desired.
Pour all the cream and egg mixture.
Sprinkle with grated cheese.
Bake in a preheated oven until golden brown.
Cauliflower with an egg and cheese in the oven - tricks and tips
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 packet of frozen vegetable.
Serving cabbage and cheese casserole is possible not only with meat, but also with fish, meatballs, sausages. It can also become a side dish for a vegetable dish, for example, mashed potatoes.
In the casserole, you can add not only mushrooms or tomatoes, but also zucchini, peppers, eggplant, onions.
