Loaded Cauliflower (As Seen on Facebook)

Submitted by Sheila Glasgow

"Yummy substitute for potatoes, side dish or my family liked it so much I think we could make it a meal. I mixed all ingredients together in the baking dish and skipped the extra dishes and I left out the mushrooms and decreased the amount of chives but when I entered the recipe I entered it just as I found it on facebook. My family is still raving about this dish."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 10

ingredients

• 1 large head cauliflower
• 6 -8 slices cooked bacon, crumbled
• 6 tablespoons chopped chives
• 1⁄2 cup mayonnaise
• 1⁄2 cup sour cream
• 2 cups colby-monterey jack cheese or 2 cups cheddar cheese
• 8 ounces sliced mushrooms (optional)

directions

1. Preheat oven to 425.
2. In a large pot boil water and cook cauliflower for 8-10 minutes, drain and let cool.
3. In a large bowl combine sour cream, mayonaise, 1/2 of crumbled bacon, 3 TBS chives, 1 cup cheese, mushrooms and caulflower, mix well.
4. Place mixture in baking dish and cover with remaining 1 cup of cheese and bacon.
5. Bake for 15-20 minutes until cheese is melted. Top with remaining chives and serve.

Reviews

[annio]

Loved it for our low carb lifestyle. Added garlic, onion, salt and pepper. Ty for sharing.

 

[Vraiblonde]

5 stars for a great idea but the recipe needed tweaking. I thinned the mixture with a splash of half & half, added salt and pepper, and topped it with crushed Ritz crackers mixed with melted butter and parsley. NOW it's delicious.

 

[Frances H.]

I made this and added into it some left over roast chicken which I just shredded. Made it into the main meal and not just a side dish. This is awesome.

 

[Cindie A.]

5 stars for a great BASE recipe! I generally don't tweak a recipe the first time I use it, but for some reason, it bothered me there were no seasonings (except chives) (not even salt and pepper) going into this one. I think it would've turned out fine if I would've just followed the directions exactly, but I couldn't just leave it. Here are my alterations and it turned out FANTASTICALLY delicious that even my 6-year-old was happy to chow down on! 1. Although, they're optional in the recipe, I did not use mushrooms because I am allergic to them, so that's gonna be omitted anyway with whatever I cook. 2. I used green onions instead of chives. I probably put 4 tablespoons of green onions in the mixture and about the same on top at the end of the cooking process. 3. I splashed in a little bit of milk (whole milk) to thin it out a bit because it seemed very thick. Not so much where it was liquidy, but just a little thinner than it originally was. 4. I added garlic salt and black pepper to taste. I think next time I'll do crushed red pepper and/or Cajun seasoning though because that seems like it will be even better! 5. I melted butter in my dish (just cut about 4 or 5 tablespoons of butter and popped the dish in the oven while it preheated to melt the butter) just to make sure it didn't have a sticky horrible clean up afterwards (I hate scrubbing dishes and butter makes everything better, IMHO!). Plus it added a little extra flavor and was absolutely DIVINE! 6. I had a whole head of cabbage, turned it white side down in a pot and filled pot with water until the cabbage was mostly covered (all but the green stalk part) and boiled it for about 8 minutes. I poured it into a strainer to drain and cool. Once it was cooled enough for me to touch it without burning the hell out of my hands, I removed the green part and just cut the cauliflower up quickly. It was so much faster to cut it that way than to cut it raw and then cook it on the stove. It definitely needs to be at least mostly cooked before it goes into the oven! It turned out so nicely cooked and not mushy or too hard! I already wrote basically this review, but I don't think it actually posted, so here it is again. I hope I remembered all the alterations I did and got them all down for you! Great base recipe at least, but absolutely a keeper in my family nonetheless!

 

[CarolTW]

I selected this recipe as I have seen it doing the circuit on Facebook. I substituted Broccoli instead of Cauliflower, onion instead of chives and it was delicious.