Cauliflower with meat in the oven

Very simple, very tasty, from available products, for dinner! Cauliflower with meat, baked in the oven under an appetizing cheese crust, is a full-fledged dish for a family lunch or dinner. And it's easy to prepare it - any beginner can handle it!
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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 % 9 g
Fats 52 % 14 g
Carbohydrates 15 % 4 g
170 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 50 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to bake cauliflower with meat in the oven? Prepare the products according to the list. Choose meat without bones and veins, tenderloin, as juicy and soft as possible. You can take not only pork, but also beef or lamb. Vegetable oil - any refined. Cheese is also any hard or semi-hard, but the one that melts well. Wash and dry the vegetables. Clean the meat from all excess, wash and dry.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut pork into small cubes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan. On a moderately high heat, stirring occasionally, fry the pieces of meat for about 5-7 minutes until a golden crust forms. Thanks to this roasting, the meat pieces inside will remain juicy.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Salt the meat, add the basil, mix.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Turn down the heat, cover the pan with a lid and simmer the meat for another 15-25 minutes. Determine the exact time by your plate. You can add any spices and aromatic herbs to taste.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Peel the carrots, rinse, grate on a coarse grater.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Peel the onion, wash it, cut it into small cubes. You can cut into strips, if desired.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Fry the vegetables in a frying pan with the addition of vegetable oil until soft. Do not forget to stir at the same time so that the vegetables do not burn and fry evenly.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Disassemble the cauliflower into inflorescences, cut off the too thick parts with a knife. It is better to cut the large inflorescences too, and leave the small ones intact.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Boil the cauliflower in boiling salted water until soft for 5-6 minutes. The main thing is not to digest the cabbage so that the inflorescences retain their shape.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Put the finished cabbage in a colander, let the water drain.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Put the evenly fried vegetables in a baking dish.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Spread the fried meat on top of the vegetables.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Put the boiled cauliflower on top of the meat.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Grate the hard cheese on a coarse grater.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    Sprinkle the cabbage evenly with grated cheese.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17.

    Bake cauliflower with meat in a preheated 180 degree oven for 10-15 minutes so that the cheese is completely melted. Determine the exact time and temperature of baking according to your oven. Serve the dish hot. Bon appetit!

For cooking, I took a ham and cut off the excess fat, a tenderloin or carbonade is also suitable.
If beef is preferred, it is better to take veal so that the meat is softer. However, it will take a little longer to prepare.
Chicken or turkey fillet will be a good dietary option. In addition, it will take less time to prepare.

I liked this recipe because you can serve meat and garnish at the same time. This is very convenient and very tasty!

So that the mucous membrane of the eyes is not irritated when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.

In addition to pork, any other meat can be used in this dish. Keep in mind that the cooking time, as well as the taste and calorie content of the dish will change. For example, beef is cooked longer than pork, and chicken fillet or turkey is less.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

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

  • Pork fat - 333   kcal/100g
  • Pork meat - 357   kcal/100g
  • Pork - low-fat roast - 184   kcal/100g
  • Pork chop on a bone - 537   kcal/100g
  • Pork - schnitzel - 352   kcal/100g
  • Pork Shoulder - 593   kcal/100g
  • Boar's leg - 113   kcal/100g
  • Pork - 259   kcal/100g
  • Carrots - 33   kcal/100g
  • Dried carrots - 275   kcal/100g
  • Boiled carrots - 25   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
  • Uglich 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
  • Fresh basil - 27   kcal/100g
  • Dried basil - 251   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g

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