March 5 National Cheese Doodle Day

Cauliflower cheese

Cheese doodles are an american product we know them as cheese puffs, I can find no sensible recipe to use these with and I am sure you have no urge to make them, so I thought a nice Cauliflower Cheese topped with crushed cheese puffs would be worth a try, let me know if anyone makes this. the picture below does not have cheese puffs on it.

Ingredients

1 large cauliflower (leaves cut off), broken into pieces

500ml milk

4 tbsp flour

50g butter

100g strong cheddar, grated

2-3 tbsp breadcrumbs, if you have them

1 bag of cheese puffs, crushed

Method

Bring a large saucepan of water to the boil, then add the cauliflower and cook for 5 mins – lift out a piece to test, it should be cooked. Drain the cauliflower, then tip into an ovenproof dish.

Heat oven to 220C/200C/gas 7. Put the saucepan back on the heat and add the milk, flour and butter. Keep whisking fast as the butter melts and the mixture comes to the boil – the flour will disappear and the sauce will begin to thicken. Whisk for 2 mins while the sauce bubbles and becomes nice and thick. Turn off the heat, stir in most of the cheese and pour over the cauliflower. Scatter over the remaining cheese, crush cheese puffs and breadcrumbs.

put the Cauliflower cheese into the oven and bake for 20 mins until bubbling.