I wanted to try my luck with creating a cauliflower recipe, and I ended up creating a Cauliflower and Cheese Casserole. This ooey, gooey, low carb cauliflower dish will have you begging for more!
How To Make Riced Cauliflower Casserole
I miss cheesy, ooey-gooey things, filled with soft, comforting pasta. I've been seeing all these wonderful cauliflower recipes about and so many of them have been picked up, modified, posted, etc. that I'm not even sure to whom I should be giving credit for this recipe because I've read so many of them. But I sort of winged the proportions as I always do, and this is what I ended up with.
But first, a note about ricing cauliflower. I've seen lots of recipes for "cauliflower rice". I miss my rice so I thought I'd try this. Well, it ain't rice, but it will do in a pinch.
So here's the best way to rice the cauliflower for the cauliflower casserole. First, Put the florets in a blender with plenty of water, and pulse it a few times until the cauliflower is all chopped up. Then get a large strainer, and pour the mixture through it and drain thoroughly, and voila! You're left with even and small riced bits of cauliflower.
For this low carb side dish, I used a half head of cauliflower. I made Roasted Cauliflower with the other half. First I went ahead and cooked all of it in a pan with some ghee, salt, pepper, and water. Then I removed 1.5 cups to make this recipe and mixed the leftover with cilantro and lime juice to get a "rice" out of it like the picture below.
It's a keto-friendly recipe because of the high-fat content. It's also very kid-friendly but you do have to eat it hot. Tasted cold it's meh, but when it's hot and cheesy, it's quite wonderful.
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Ingredients
- 1.5 cup (160.5 g) riced cauliflower, (see note)
- 1 teaspoon (1 teaspoon) Ghee, or coconut oil
- 1/2 teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) Kosher Salt
- 1/2 teaspoon (0.5 teaspoon) Ground Black Pepper
- 1/3 cup (79.33 g) Heavy Whipping Cream
- 1 tablespoon (1 tablespoon) Cream Cheese
- 1/3 cup (37.67 g) shredded sharp cheddar cheese
- 1/3 cup (83.33 g) Water
Instructions
- Cook riced cauliflower along with the ghee, salt and pepper and scant 1/3 cup water until the cauliflower is soft.
- Pour the cooked cauliflower into a small glass pan and mix in all the other ingredients except 2 tablespoons of grated cheese.
- Use this to top off the casserole.
- Bake in a 350 oven for 25 mins until the cheese is melted and the sides have browned.
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Don't forget to check out my other Keto cookbooks.
Keto Instant Pot, Keto Fat Bombs, Sweets, & Treats, and Easy keto in 30 minutes.
Laura
How would you modify this with frozen riced cauliflower? Still sauté it?
Miki Raton
This looks soooo good! But can you explain why you used reduced-fat cheese and then heavy cream? Seems counter-intuitive. Thank you!
URVASHI PITRE
Hah! So..I use whatever I have in the house on any given day that I'm inspired to cook. I always test and perfect everything before it goes on the blog. So I write the recipe EXACTLY how I happened to make it when it turned out well. That day, I had reduced fat cream cheese at home, so that's what I used and that's what I documented. You could certainly use full-fat cheese 🙂
Dominique
Hi! I just wanted to drop a comment to let you know that we actually featured this recipe on our list of 40 foods to eat after having your wisdom Teeth extracted! We'd love it if you could check it out. Thanks! http://drsattardentalspa.com/dental-tips/foods-to-eat-after-wisdom-teeth-extraction/
Two Sleevers
Thank you so much for adding that! Check out also my protein pudding recipe. Soft and yet high protein.