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Cauliflower Cheese for Babies - Mummy to Dex
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Cauliflower cheese for babies is an incredibly warming comfort food that is perfect for the winter months. Whether you’re chosen the traditional weaning route or are following baby led weaning, cauliflower cheese has to be on your list of foods to offer baby before they turn one.
Deliciously creamy and jam packed full of nutrients – your baby will love this recipe which can be shared with older kids and the adults in the family too!
Cauliflower Cheese for Babies
It takes a bit of time to make this cauliflower cheese for babies recipe, but the result is well worth the effort! Deliciously creamy and full of healthy nutrients, cauliflower cheese for babies makes the ideal side dish to a Sunday roast or can be served by itself as an exciting way for your baby to sample cauliflower for the first time!
Why offer cauliflower to your baby?
Cauliflower is a nutrient-rich vegetable which boasts a whole load of health benefits for your baby. Key nutrients include:
- Fibre – helps keep things moving in the digestive tract and helps prevent constipation
- Vitamin C – maintains a healthy immune system
- Vitamin K – helps to make the proteins that build bones
- Vitamin B6 – important for brain development
- Folate – helps with the formation of red blood cells
- Potassium – helps cells to function normally
- Manganese – necessary for building healthy bones and tissues
- Magnesium – supports muscle and nerve function
- Phosphorus – builds strong healthy bones
How do you make cauliflower cheese for babies?
Cauliflower cheese for babies is super simple to make. Just follow these few easy steps:
- Boil the cauliflower on the hob for around 15 minutes, until soft.
- Meanwhile make the cheese sauce, using butter, milk, flour and cheese.
- Combine the cauliflower and cheese sauce in an oven proof dish and bake in the oven for 25 minutes.
- Leave to cool fully before serving to baby.
Can you use frozen cauliflower to make this recipe?
Absolutely! There’s been this myth over the last few decades that frozen isn’t as good as fresh as it contains less nutrients, but recent studies show this isn’t the case.
As long as your frozen cauliflower is stored properly and you haven’t been hanging onto it for too long, it will work just as well and be just as nutritious for your baby!
Simply boil the frozen cauliflower just as you would the fresh cauliflower!
What sort of cheese should I use?
Any hard cheese will work well, but I prefer to use cheddar as it is nice and sharp and something we always have in our fridge to hand. Other good choices are:
- Asiago
- Colby
- Fontina
- Gouda
- Gruyère
- Havarti
- Monterey Jack
- Muenster
How do you serve cauliflower cheese to babies?
The first thing to consider before serving this dish to your baby – is it fully cooled? Cauliflower cheese gets extremely hot during the cooking process , so it’s imperative to ensure the whole dish is cool before serving up to your baby.
For those who are baby led weaning, you can serve whole florets for your baby to grab and eat with their hands.
For those babies who are following a traditional weaning method, you can mash the cauliflower cheese with a fork and spoon feed it to them.
For slightly older babies, you could chop it into smaller chunks and let them try and practise picking them up with their pincer grip or try using some baby cutlery.
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What do you serve alongside cauliflower cheese?
This recipe can be served alone or can be part of a bigger meal that you offer to baby. We often serve cauliflower cheese alongside a Sunday roast or other warming Winter meals such as toad in the hole.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 head of cauliflower
- 300 ml milk
- 2 tbsp flour
- knob of butter
- 60 grams cheese
Instructions
- Boil the kettle and preheat the oven to 180C.
- Break up the head of cauliflower by either pulling our florets to place in a saucepan or use a food processor to break it up into smaller chunks.
- Place the cauliflower in the saucepan and cover with boiling water. Boil for 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make the sauce. In a milk pan, add a knob of butter and once it is melted, add the milk and flour, whisking continuously until all the flour is absorbed. Add the cheese and keep whisking until the sauce becomes thick and creamy.
- Drain the water from the cauliflower and add it to an oven safe dish. Cover the cauliflower with the cheese sauce and place in the oven on the top shelf for twenty minutes.
- Cool fully before serving to baby - cauliflower cheese is extremely hot when it comes out of the oven.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
4Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 171Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 29mgSodium: 178mgCarbohydrates: 13gFiber: 3gSugar: 7gProtein: 9g
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Step 1
Boil the broccoli and cauliflower on the hob until a knife passes through the stalks easily.
Drain and leave to cool a little.
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Our cauliflower broccoli cheese is a dish with family appeal! Experiment with different cheeses to see what your little one likes best. Simply follow the baby cauliflower cheese recipe as normal and switch out the cheese for your family's favourite strength.
Once made, store the cauliflower cheese for babies in the fridge in an airtight container for 3 days or freezes well for 1 month. Defrost in the fridge overnight and reheat on the hob or in the microwave until piping hot. Stir well and always check the heat of baby food before serving.
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Melt the butter in a small saucepan over a low heat then add the flour and nutmeg and whisk well until melted. Allow the flour to cook for about a minute at this heat then add the milk gradually, whisking continually. Keep whisking and turn the heat up a little.
After about 5 minutes, the white sauce should have thickened a little.
See recipe notes
Our cauliflower broccoli cheese is a dish with family appeal! Experiment with different cheeses to see what your little one likes best. Simply follow the baby cauliflower cheese recipe as normal and switch out the cheese for your family's favourite strength.
Once made, store the cauliflower cheese for babies in the fridge in an airtight container for 3 days or freezes well for 1 month. Defrost in the fridge overnight and reheat on the hob or in the microwave until piping hot. Stir well and always check the heat of baby food before serving.
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Step 3
Remove from the heat and add the cheese. Stir well. Allow to cool for 5 minutes then add the broccoli and cauliflower before either serving with some sticks of cheddar cheese or pureeing for younger babies
See recipe notes
Our cauliflower broccoli cheese is a dish with family appeal! Experiment with different cheeses to see what your little one likes best.
Simply follow the baby cauliflower cheese recipe as normal and switch out the cheese for your family's favourite strength.
Once made, store the cauliflower cheese for babies in the fridge in an airtight container for 3 days or freezes well for 1 month. Defrost in the fridge overnight and reheat on the hob or in the microwave until piping hot. Stir well and always check the heat of baby food before serving.
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Levchuk Victoria© Oven baked cauliflower with cheese.
Today I propose to cook cauliflower with cheese for baby food. Cheese is a great addition to cauliflower. As I wrote earlier, we had a cauliflower season, the price is ridiculous for 1 kilogram, so I bought large quantities for myself and my child.
Of course, cauliflower is a very healthy product, especially for a child, and if after a double boiler, then just a storehouse of vitamins and minerals. But the oven is also a good option.
Moreover, the combination of cheese and cauliflower is amazing, it gives the cabbage a bright and interesting taste, I think the child will like it.
This recipe uses a simple method of pouring cauliflower, but you can try hard and make Bechamel cheese sauce, then it turns out even tastier.
Carefully read the ingredients of the Cauliflower with Cheese recipe, all products should be familiar to the baby. Suitable for children over 12 months as finger food.
Introduced foods for baby food : Cauliflower, cheese, eggs, milk, spices, butter.
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Ingredients
- 1 head of cauliflower
- 5 pieces of chicken eggs
- 1 Milk glass 4%
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To prepare cauliflower with cheese, you need cauliflower, eggs, milk 4%, butter for a baking sheet, cheese that melts.
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We divide the cauliflower into inflorescences, wash well from any different living creatures. Throw in boiling water, let it boil for 5 minutes. Cauliflower should be pierced with a fork with an interference fit, as if almost cooked.
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While the cauliflower is cooking, prepare the filling. We beat the eggs with a fork, salt, pepper, put any spices to taste, the main thing is that the child is familiar with them, and he is not allergic to them.
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Three cheese on a grater.
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We combine the egg with spices, cheese and milk. If the filling is not enough, then you can add milk.
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As soon as the cauliflower is boiled, transfer it to a baking sheet that has been rubbed with butter.
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Fill the cauliflower with filling, put in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 180C.
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5 minutes before cooking, grate some cheese and place on top of the cauliflower. Let's form a beautiful cheese crust.
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Serve slightly chilled, after cutting into small pieces, especially cheese. Great as a cold appetizer.
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Bon appetit!!!
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Viktoria Levchuk©Cauliflower, carrot, cheese and rice puree can be prepared for lunch or dinner.
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