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How hard is it for your children to eat cauliflower? Well, try to prepare it like this, with pasta, pesto and bechamel. You are sure to love the crunchy crust that will form on the surface as you gratin the cheese.
It is not a complex recipe but it will take time to prepare. We will have to cook the cauliflower, the pasta and also prepare the bechamel.
I leave you the link to other recipes made with this vegetable: Creamy rice with cauliflower and blue cheese, cauliflower with paprika y cauliflower pizza
Pasta au gratin with cauliflower and bechamel
A good recipe for children to eat cauliflower
- ascen jimenez
- Kitchen: Modern
- Recipe type: vegetables
- Rations: 4
- Total time:
Ingredients
- 1/2 cauliflower
- Water to cook the cauliflower
- 3 tablespoons pesto
- 50 butter g
- 50 g flour
- 500 ml of milk
- Sal Island
- Nutmeg
- 320 g of short pasta
- Parmesan cheese or other cheese for grating
Preparation
To prepare the bechamel we put the butter in a saucepan. We put the saucepan on the fire.
When it melts, add the flour and sauté it for about two minutes, taking care not to burn it.
We are incorporating the milk little by little, stirring constantly to avoid lumps from forming.
We add salt and pepper and reserve our bechamel.
We wash and chop the cauliflower into bunches. We put water in a large saucepan. When the water is hot add a little salt and also the cauliflower.
We cook it for 30 minutes or until it is well cooked.
Once cooked, remove the water and reserve the cauliflower in a strong or oven-safe container.
If we consider it necessary, we chop the florets so that the cauliflower pieces are smaller.
Cook the pasta in a saucepan following the manufacturer's instructions. Once cooked, drain it and put it next to the cauliflower. We add the two tablespoons of pesto.
We mix everything.
We cover the pasta and cauliflower with the béchamel that we have prepared at the beginning.
We grate Parmesan cheese on the surface.
Gratin in the oven at 190º (better with grill function if our oven has it) for 15 minutes or until a crust begins to form on the surface.
We serve immediately.
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