Braised Cauliflower with Cheese and Tomatoes

This tasty pairing of cauliflower and cheese fills you up without weighing you down. Cauliflower dishes work for both everyday meals and special occasions, and there are countless recipes for this beautiful vegetable—each one better than the last. Let's make cauliflower with cheese.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 33 % 5 g
Fats 27 % 4 g
Carbohydrates 40 % 6 g
78 kcal
GI: 67 / 0 / 33

Cooking method

Cooking time: 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1

    The ingredients.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2

    Boil the cauliflower in salted water until tender, then drain in a colander. Break it into florets and trim off the thick stems.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3

    Heat the vegetable oil in a deep skillet, add the cauliflower florets, and sprinkle them generously with breadcrumbs.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4

    Fry the cauliflower until golden.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5

    Meanwhile, grate the tomatoes on the coarse side of a box grater—you want the pulpy tomato juice.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6

    Grate any hard cheese on the fine side. Whisk the eggs until smooth and stir them together with the tomatoes and grated cheese. Pour this mixture over the cauliflower right in the pan. Cover tightly and simmer over low heat until the cheese melts.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7

    Serve sprinkled with chopped fresh herbs—whichever you like. If you'd like to add mushrooms or ham, sauté them separately first, then stir them in with the cauliflower.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8

    Enjoy!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23  kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157  kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45  kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542  kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352  kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118  kcal/100g
  • Dutch cheese - 352  kcal/100g
  • Swiss cheese - 335  kcal/100g
  • Russian cheese - 366  kcal/100g
  • Kostroma cheese - 345  kcal/100g
  • Yaroslavsky cheese - 361  kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese 50% fat content - 356  kcal/100g
  • Soviet cheese - 400  kcal/100g
  • Cheese 'steppe' - 362  kcal/100g
  • Uglichsky cheese - 347  kcal/100g
  • Poshekhonsky cheese - 350  kcal/100g
  • Lambert cheese - 377  kcal/100g
  • Appnzeller cheese with 50% fat content - 400  kcal/100g
  • Chester cheese with 50% fat content - 363  kcal/100g
  • Edamer cheese with 40% fat content - 340  kcal/100g
  • Cheese with mushrooms of 50% fat content - 395  kcal/100g
  • Emmental cheese with 45% fat content - 420  kcal/100g
  • Gouda cheese with 45% fat content - 356  kcal/100g
  • Aiadeus cheese - 364  kcal/100g
  • Dom blanc cheese (semi-hard) - 360  kcal/100g
  • Lo spalmino cheese - 61  kcal/100g
  • Cheese 'etorki' (sheep, hard) - 401  kcal/100g
  • White cheese - 100  kcal/100g
  • Fat yellow cheese - 260  kcal/100g
  • Altai cheese - 355  kcal/100g
  • Kaunas cheese - 355  kcal/100g
  • Latvian cheese - 316  kcal/100g
  • Limburger cheese - 327  kcal/100g
  • Lithuanian cheese - 250  kcal/100g
  • Lake cheese - 350  kcal/100g
  • Gruyere cheese - 396  kcal/100g
  • Cauliflower - 28  kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255  kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41  kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41  kcal/100g
  • Breadcrumbs - 347  kcal/100g

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