Oven pasta dish with cauliflower
- Nadine Buitendijk
- 28 mrt 2020
- 2 minuten om te lezen
I'm not really sure how I should make this look tasty, but I can assure you it is! At the moment I'm kinda addicted to my creamsauce and I'm trying to find an excuse almost every week to use it. This time an oven pasta dish with cauliflower, bacon and pecorino.
Ingredients (3/4 p):
• 250 gram pasta • half a cauliflower • 300 gram bacon strips • 1 white onion • 3 garlic cloves • 1 cup grated pecorino cheese • 40 gram butter • 40 gram flour • 200 ml milk • 200 ml vegetable broth • 1 cup grated Gouda cheese • 2 tbsp bread crumbs • 250 ml cream •
1. Pre-heat your oven at 200°C. Cut you cauliflower into small chunks and boil for 5 minutes. I also used the leaves of the cauliflower, mostly the young, light green ones. Slice them into strips and they give a lovely bite to the dish.
2. Fry your bacon while you finely chop your onion and garlic. Once the bacon is almost done, add the onion and garlic and stir well until golden. Turn off the heat and set aside.
3. Take the cauliflower out of the water and use the water to boil the pasta for HALF the time you would normally cook it. The pasta I used said 14 minutes on the packaging and I boiled it for 7.
4. While the pasta is cooking, get a small sauce pan and melt you butter. Once it's all melted, add the flour and stir well for a good minute. Slowly start adding the milk and broth.
5. Once the sauce has thickened, add the pecorini cheese. Add the cream and stir well before turning off the heat.
6. Mix emerging together, pasta, cauliflower, bacon and sauce and dump it into your oven dish. Sprinkle with the Gouda cheese and bread crumbs for a golden, crispy crust.
Put in the oven for 20 minutes. As soon as it's done, take it out and let it rest for 5 minutes before serving.
You could throw the pasta and cauliflower in raw, but this would double the cooking time in the oven, or even longer. I found this version a bit easier.
Enjoy!

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