Cauliflower and Broccoli Cheese

If you read my blog regularly you will know I had A LOT of cheese delivered last week from JustCheese.co.uk. One of the samples was a beautiful Montgomery's Cheddar from Somerset, which has a beautiful sharp, strong taste and mild blue veining running through it. As I was cooking some roast beef yesterday for Sunday Lunch, I decided to make a cauliflower and broccoli cheese to serve alongside (I could quite happily just eat the cauliflower and broccoli cheese if I'm honest!). You can mix and match the cheeses you use, any blue cheese would work well as would a mixture of cheddar and Parmesan. If you did want to serve the dish as a meal in itself, some fried bacon or chorizo stirred into the cheese sauce at the end would be lovely, or for vegetarians some extra veggies such as spinach.

Cauliflower and Broccoli Cheese

Ingredients: to serve 4 as a side dish, 2 as a main meal

1 head of Cauliflower, broken into florets

1 head of Broccoli, broken into florets

25g Butter

25g Flour

300ml Milk

175g Cheddar - I used Montgomery's cheddar, grated

Seasoning

Method:

Step 1: Bring a pan of salted water to the boil and add the cauliflower and broccoli, cook until tender then drain and put into ovenproof dish.

Step 2: Preheat the grill. Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour and cook for 2 minutes, continuously stirring. Add the milk gradually then bring to the boil - it will thicken up.

Step 3: Take off the heat, add the cheddar and stir in until melted, season and pout over the cauliflower and broccoli.

Step 4: Pop under the grill until browned on top.