Cauliflower Cheese Pasta - Jamie Oliver 7 ways
The recipe where creamy cauliflower cheese and spaghetti meet with a crunchy breadcrumb topping, from Jamie Oliver’s 7 ways cookbook.
Jamie Oliver 7 ways is the latest trendy cookbook on the market. Full of easy to source, beloved ingredients showing you how to cook them in 7 different ways. In this article we will cover his Recipe for Cauliflower cheese pasta. It’s quick, it’s vegetarian, it’s easy to cook and it’s blooming well delicious!
Sometimes simple is just better. Like this recipe for cauliflower cheese pasta. No fancy, hard to get ingredients, no complicated cooking instructions. Just straight to the point. Blend some cauliflower and cheese, make a little crumb, boil some pasta and the jobs a good’n.
But before we get onto the cauliflower cheese pasta recipe. First let’s talk about where this recipe came from and give credit where credit is due…
Jamie Oliver 7 Ways Cookbook
7 ways is Jamie Oliver's newest cookbook release (Published 20th August 2020) and may just be his best cookbook yet!
Throughout the cookbook Jamie Oliver shows us 7 ways to cook a single popular ingredient. Them ingredients are as follow: Broccoli, Cauliflower, Avocado, Chicken breast, Sausages, Salmon Fillets, Sweet potato, Aubergine, Eggs, Mince, Potato, Peppers, Prawns, White fish fillet, Whole chicken, Mushrooms, Steak and Pork.
In the words of the man himself “7 Ways exists to give you new ideas for the ingredients you already know and love.”
With over 120 recipes that are easy to recreate, with easy to source ingredients, quick recipes and healthy recipes. I had to give it a purchase to see what the hype was about. After which, I can indeed confirm, it’s one of his best cookbooks to date.
You can purchase Jamie Oliver 7 ways by clicking here. Or by clicking the link below.
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Jamie Oliver 7 ways to cook Cauliflower
In this article, It’s one of his Cauliflower recipes we will be creating. Cauliflower. Cauliflower is ever growing in popularity as more and more people discover its versatility. It also helps that this humble ingredient that is the cauliflower has a huge vegan attraction.
Not only that but it's cheap as well!
So, if you fancy making this cauliflower cheese recipe (and given you have clicked this post and made it this far, i’m guessing you do) Then keep scrolling for the recipe details, which happen to be just below this section. Happy cooking!
7 ways Cauliflower Cheese Pasta
Within Jamie's 7 ways to cook cauliflower, he includes: Cauliflower remoulade, Cauliflower & chickpea curry, harissa cauliflower traybake, Cauliflower cheese pasta, Spiced cauliflower rice pie and creamy Cauliflower risotto.
For this recipe, we will be making his Cauliflower cheese pasta. It's indulgent, cheesy, simple and quick. So the perfect recipe to start off with and get an idea of the book.
Below are a few other cookbooks you may also like, so don’t forget to check them out!
7 ways Cauliflower cheese pasta Recipe
Enough of my babbling on. And onto the fun part, the recipe for this cauliflower cheese pasta. Just to recap on what we have already mentioned about this (For those of you who just scrolled past to find the recipe)
This cauliflower cheese pasta recipe for Jamie Oliver’s 7 ways cookbook is: Easy (It only has 7 ingredients) Quick (takes 30 minutes) Healthy (It’s pretty low calorie and has a high protein intake of 18.9g) Vegetarian (Big shout out to my fellow veggies out there) And maybe most importantly, delicious.
Serves 4
7 ways cauliflower cheese pasta recipe photo
Step by Step instructions for Jamie Oliver’s Cauliflower cheese pasta with photos.
Step one
Tear the sourdough bread into a food processor. Peel and add the garlic, then tear in any nice leaves from your cauliflower. Add ½ a tablespoon of olive oil, Blitz into fairly fine crumbs.
Sourdough bread, garlic, olive oil and cauliflower leaves ready for blitzing.
Step two
Tip the crumbs into a large non-stick frying pan on a medium heat. Cook for 15 minutes, or until golden and crisp, stirring occasionally.
Bread crumb frying.
Meanwhile, peel the onion, then roughly chop with the cauliflower, stalk and all.
Step Three
Toasted crumb
Tip the crispy crumbs into a bowl, for later. Returning the pan to the heat. Pour in the milk and add the chopped onion and cauliflower, bring just to the boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer.
Milk, cauliflower and onion simmering.
Step Four
Whilst your cauliflower and onion are frying, cook the pasta in a pan of boiling salted water according to the packet instructions. Just before the pasta is ready, carefully pour the cauliflower mixture into the food processor. Grate the cheese over the mix, blitz until super smooth, then season to perfection.
Smooth cauliflower sauce.
Step five
Drain the pasta, reserving a mugful of starchy cooking water, Toss the pasta through the sauce, loosening with a splash of reserved cooking water, if needed, then serve with the crispy crumbs.
spaghetti added to cauliflower and cheese sauce.
cauliflower cheese pasta served.
Cauliflower cheese pasta tossed.
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Cauliflower Cheese Pasta
cauliflower cheese pasta
Ingredients
Instructions
- Tear the bread into a food processor. Peel and add the garlic, then tear in any nice leaves from your cauliflower. Add ½ a tablespoon of olive oil, Blitz into fairly fine crumbs.
- Tip crumb into a large non-stick frying pan on a medium heat. Cook for 15 minutes, or until golden and crisp, stirring occasionally.
- Meanwhile, peel the onion, then roughly chop with the cauliflower, stalk and all.
- Tip the crispy crumbs into a bowl, returning the pan to the heat. Pour in the milk and add the chopped veg, bring just to the boil, then reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer.
- Alongside, cook the pasta in a saucepan of boiling salted water according to the packet instructions. Just before the pasta is ready, carefully pour the cauliflower mixture into the food processor, grate the cheese, blitz until super smooth, then season to perfection.
- Drain the pasta, reserving a mugful of starchy cooking water, Toss the pasta through the sauce, loosening with a splash of reserved cooking water, if needed, then serve with the crispy crumbs.
Notes
When it comes to your sourdough breadcrumbs, don't worry if it's a little past its best, in fact, older bread works best so it's a great way to use old bread that you would otherwise throw away. The breadcrumbs also work great for topping other pasta dishes, fish, and salads. So before you think about throwing away that 'seen better days' bread, try blitzing it to top your next meal.
Nutrition Facts
Calories
505.76Fat
9.98Sat. Fat
5.09Carbs
82.23Fiber
5.45Net carbs
76.78Sugar
11.36Protein
22.17Sodium
347.68Cholesterol
25.48The nutritional information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice. See our full nutrition disclosure here.
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