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This whole roasted cauliflower cheese was inspired by a dish my mum cooked over Easter (hi mum! I can hear your squeals of delight from here!). It’s like your usual cauliflower cheese, but the cauliflower is roasted whole, rather than being chopped up into the sauce.
This is good for two main reasons.
Firstly, you need to use less cheese sauce. I know, I know, this sounds like a bad thing, but when you’re trying to eat a bit more healthily, a plateful of cheese sauce with a couple of token bits of cauliflower floating in it isn’t particularly acceptable, much as I would love it to be. This whole roasted cauliflower cheese has just enough cheese sauce that you feel like you’ve had something a bit naughty, without actually…
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