creamed vegetable sauces

Fruits and/or vegetables can be pureed and mixed in with béchamel sauce to enhance the flavor.

A. cauliflower sauce

2017-05-05 a.o.

If you like cauliflower with béchamel and cheese, you’ll probably like this sauce too. Béchamel sauce is fairly bland. The cauliflower gives it a stronger flavor. Other vegetables or even fruits can be used instead of cauliflower.

Use this sauce for any dish where you would use regular béchamel sauce. Because of the added vegetables, it will remain thicker and brown better when baked in the oven.

This is also a good alternative to Alfredo sauce. Turn it into a soup by adding water / milk / broth.

I had also intended doing the reverse: blending broccoli and serving it over cauliflower, but I didn't get to that yet by the time I wrote this page.

Pic1: served with steak, mashed potatoes, cauliflower
2017-05-05
Pic2: served with broccoli
2019-08-23

INGREDIENTS

This is what you need for 3-4 cups:

2 cups béchamel sauce
up to 1 lb. cauliflower, cooked
S&P
nutmeg
optional:
1 cup melting cheese of your choice,
grated
e.g. cheddar, mozzarella
1 potato, cooked

Directions

Prepare the béchamel sauce.
Do not make too thick.
Add the cauliflower.
Use a stick blender to puree the cauliflower into the sauce.
This will thicken the sauce.
Add S&P, nutmeg to taste.
Stir in grated cheese to taste.
This will thicken the sauce even more.
Enjoy.