I wanted to try my luck with creating a cauliflower recipe, and I ended up creating a Baked Cauliflower with Cheese. This ooey, gooey, low-carb cauliflower dish will have you begging for more!
Why You'll Love This Recipe
- Fast. Only 30 minutes of cook time for a tasty side dish.
- Easy. A simple pour and cook recipe.
- Low Carb. An unbelieveable 2 net carbs per serving.
- Vegetarian. Trying to eat less meat or prefer to keep it out of your diet entirely? This is incredibly filling and can double as a main course.
Ingredients You'll Need
- Riced cauliflower, (see note)
- Ghee- you can also sub coconut oil for this recipe
- Kosher Salt
- Ground Black Pepper
- Heavy Whipping Cream
- Cream Cheese
- Sharp cheddar cheese
Do You Have To Use Riced Cauliflower?
Absolutely not! I prefer it if you're wanting that feels more like loaded baked potatoes or creamy macaroni and cheese. However, if you're a veggie lover or are short on time, using cauliflower florets is just as tasty.
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.
How Long Does It Last?
For best results, try to enjoy this cauliflower casserole within 3-4 days of baking it. It will stay safe to eat for up to 5 days, but the texture of the cauliflower will begin to change and the flavor will become more pungent the longer it stays in the refrigerator.
What To Serve It With
Honestly, next to everything is tasty with this low carb dish. The flavor is mild, but tasty and the texture can double as pasta or rice if you're eating low carb.
Here are some of my favorite things to pair this cheesy cauliflower with:
More Low Carb Side Dishes
If you're living a low carb lifestyle and want a little more variety in your dinner routine, try some of my other popular low carb recipes:
- Air Fryer Brussels Sprouts
- Mushroom Side Dish With Bacon
- Air Fryer Broccoli
- Instant Pot Spaghetti Squash
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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.
Paulette
Oh My, This sounds so delicious! I love cauliflower in all its preparations and this is a delicious-sounding variant. This is cauliflower season so I will get another beautiful head shopping this week
Jan M
Delicious, easy and great for gluten free diets! I put it in the oven with wild salmon in foil & 25 minutes later...dinner is served!
Marianne Sephton
Oh my giddy god!!! This has GOT to be some of the best stuff on earth. I made this last week and was bowled over with the taste (and it was deelish cold too - sorry Urvashi). I added a few spices to make it fun, and it.was.fabulous. Even hubs, who doesn't do keto like I do, liked it. A lot. I made it again this week, switched out some spices, switched out the cheeses, and it was love all over again. Looks like I need to make some riced cauliflower and freeze a bunch to keep making this gorgeous food. Oh, one more thing - it goes with anything! Brisket, pastrami, chuck roast, sauteed veg, ham, I could go on and on ...
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
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Two Sleevers
Thank you so much for adding that! Check out also my protein pudding recipe. Soft and yet high protein.