Cauliflower is a source of useful components and vitamins. The protein content in it is several times higher than in white cabbage. It has a lot of useful macro- and microelements. For example, it contains more iron than peas, lettuce or peppers. Due to the presence of tartronic, malic, citric acids, as well as pectin and enzymes, it is necessary for maintaining health. Having a low calorie content, it is eaten by overweight persons.
It also has medicinal properties:
- Strengthens the walls of blood vessels, cleanses the body of harmful cholesterol.
- Helps improve digestion. Delicate fibers cleanse the digestive system well, improve bowel function. Glucafarin in the composition prevents the development of gastritis and ulcers.
- It is very useful for pregnant women, as it contains folic acid and other B vitamins, which have a beneficial effect on the development of the child.
- Has a preventive effect on the development of cancer. The presence of glucosinolate slows down the growth of cancer cells.
- It has anti-inflammatory properties.
- Improves heart function.
- Fully absorbed by the body.
In addition to useful qualities, it is also a very tasty vegetable that can be used in different forms: bake, steam, boil. It goes well with other products, therefore it is included in the composition of various dishes.
Calorie content
Cauliflower is a low-calorie vegetable - 30 kcal per 100 g. Oven baking with cheese, egg and sour cream increases it to 94 kcal, but varies from the percentage of fat content of sour cream and cheese. When supplementing the recipe with other products, their individual energy value is taken into account to calculate the calorie content.
Classic Cheese Recipe
Cauliflower goes well with meat and vegetables. You can cook various dishes from it. A classic recipe is taken as a basis and, taking into account the preferences of the family or guests, the composition and quantity of ingredients changes.
Ingredients
Servings: - + 6
- cauliflower 1 head of cabbage
- chicken egg 1 PC
- hard cheese 230 g
- sour cream 100 g
- vegetable oil for lubrication
- salt, pepper to taste
Calories and PJU per 100 g
Calories: 66 kcal
Proteins: 4.7 g
Fats: 3.5 g
Carbohydrates: 4.5 g
40 minutes Video
Wash the cabbage, cut into pieces and boil in salted water for 4-6 minutes. Drain and cool the water.
Grease a baking dish with butter. Fold boiled cabbage into it.
Mix egg and sour cream separately until smooth. Drizzle over the vegetable.
Grate cheese and sprinkle on top.
Cook at an oven temperature of 180 ° C for about half an hour.
Garnish with chopped herbs before serving.
Cauliflower with egg in batter
Cabbage prepared according to this recipe has an advantage over the fried version. Firstly, it is less high-calorie. Secondly, less oil consumption for frying.
Ingredients:
- Cabbage - head (500-600 g).
- Two eggs.
- Salt.
- Flour - a couple of tablespoons.
- Pepper.
How to cook:
- Divide the washed head of cabbage into parts and boil for several minutes in salted water.
- Beat eggs in a separate bowl and gradually add flour into them. While stirring, bring to the consistency of thick sour cream.
- Grease a baking sheet or cover with baking paper.
- Alternately dipping pieces of vegetable in batter, spread on a sheet.
- Cook at 180 ° C for at least 25 minutes.
Video preparation
Cauliflower casserole
A healthy dietary meal. It will appeal to the lovers of vegetables.
Ingredients:
- Cabbage - head about 500 g.
- Salt.
- Eggs - a couple of pieces.
- Milk - ½ cup.
- Pepper.
- Ham - 100-150 g.
Preparation:
- In salted water for about five minutes, boil the previously washed and cut cabbage.
- Drain the liquid, cool the rest.
- Place the slices and chopped ham in a greased baking dish.
- In a separate bowl, mix eggs with milk. Season with salt and pepper. You can use any spices you like. Add finely chopped dill.
- Drizzle over the cabbage.
- Bake at 180 ° C for at least a quarter of an hour.
Kulebyaka with cabbage
The filling uses minced meat: chicken, pork, veal. Only the calorie content of the finished product will change.
Ingredients for the dough:
- Water and milk - half a glass each.
- Flour - 450-500 g.
- Two eggs.
- Sugar - a couple of tsp spoons.
- Yeast (dry) - 20-25 g.
- Salt - half a teaspoon spoons.
- Sour cream - a couple of tbsp. l. spoons.
Ingredients for the filling:
- Cabbage is a head.
- Minced meat - 200-250 g.
Preparation:
- Mix milk and water. The liquid should be warm. We spread the yeast.
- Add salt, sugar and a little flour, mix and cover with a towel.
- When the yeast begins to ferment, prepare the dough. Add the beaten egg, the remaining flour and knead the dough.
- Leave to come up in a bowl warm, covered with a towel.
- While the dough is coming up, prepare the filling. Fry the meat in pieces and cook the minced meat, salt, sprinkle with pepper.
- Boil cauliflower in salted water.
- Put part of the dough into a special greased baking dish.
- Put the cabbage on the next layer.
- Roll out the rest of the dough and cover the filling. We wrap the edges.
- Grease the top layer of the dough with a beaten egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds.
- Cook at 180 ° C for about half an hour.
- You can add cheese, pieces of ham or mushrooms to the filling of kulebyaki.
- You can diversify the classic casserole by adding boiled or fried chicken, ham. Of vegetables, boiled asparagus beans, fried mushrooms, and tomatoes are perfect.
- To prevent the inflorescences from darkening during the cooking process, pour in a little lemon juice.
- When steamed, more nutrients are retained than when boiled. Steamed cabbage can be used in casseroles.
- You can prepare cabbage for the winter to delight your family with your favorite dishes out of season.
- You can bake the whole vegetable. To do this, it must be boiled, cooled, carefully stuffed with meat, ham, mushrooms. Place in the oven, sprinkle with cheese. A festive and original dish is ready.
How not to use such a beautiful, healthy and tasty cabbage for a family ?! And how many beautiful festive dishes you can cook from it at home! The main thing is to turn on the imagination and experiment, taking the classic recipe as a basis. If you wish, you can come up with your own signature dish and surprise guests with it.
Oven-baked cauliflower with cheese makes a great addition to a meat or fish steak, but it can also serve as an independent vegetable dish. Cabbage inflorescences are baked under a cheese-sour cream layer, due to which they are very soft, juicy and tender. Simply put, this is a real delight for all fans of simple vegetable dishes!
In this case, both fresh cauliflower and frozen are suitable, so the recipe can come in handy at any time of the year. So, stock up on simple foods and start preparing a healthy snack!
Ingredients: 
- cauliflower - about 400 g;
- hard cheese - 80-100 g;
- sour cream - 100 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- butter (for greasing the mold) - 10 g.
Oven baked cauliflower with cheese recipe
- We disassemble the cabbage with our hands into small inflorescences. Rinse with water and immerse in boiling, salt water for about 5 minutes. Then we discard the boiled inflorescences in a colander and cool slightly.
- Lightly beat the raw egg together with a pinch of salt and, if desired, a small amount of ground pepper. We work with a whisk, combining the protein and yolk into a single mixture.
- We load sour cream to the resulting egg mass and mix until a homogeneous composition is obtained.
- We coat the bottom and sides of the heat-resistant form with a piece of butter. Distribute the cooled cabbage inflorescences evenly and fill them with egg and sour cream.
- Sprinkle abundantly on the workpiece with cheese shavings. The temperature will melt the cheese and form a golden brown crust, which will make our dish even more appetizing.
- We send the container to the oven, which was hot by that time. We bake the cauliflower for about 10-20 minutes at 180 degrees. Once the cheese is completely melted and begins to brown, the dish is ready! Serve warm baked cauliflower. We use it as a side dish or eat it just like that, without any additions.
The cauliflower baked in the oven with cheese is ready! This dish goes well with fresh herbs. Bon Appetit!
Recipe List
Oven-baked cauliflower is mentioned in many recipes. It goes well with eggs, minced meat, cheese and almost all vegetables. Dishes that can be prepared from it combine high culinary properties, nutritional value and reduced calorie content. Therefore, their recipes can often be seen in restaurant menus and as part of therapeutic and health-improving diets.
By baking, you can prepare a fresh, boiled and blanched plant. Cauliflower is cooked in the oven in 15-20 minutes.
You can cook cauliflower in a time from 10 minutes to an hour. This is determined by the processing method and the recipe.
We present to your attention several recipes for delicious and satisfying dishes, in which cauliflower baked in the oven appears.
For this dish you need to take:
- Medium forks;
- Egg;
- Three garlic cloves;
- Two tablespoons of thick sour cream;
- 100 g of low-fat cheese;
- Vegetable oil;
- Salt with pepper, dill;
- Lemon slice.
Let's break down the cooking process into the following steps:
- After washing the cauliflower, we disassemble it into inflorescences and cook with a slice of lemon. Three minutes after the broth boils, we transfer the inflorescences to a mold greased with vegetable oil.
- To prepare the filling, mix the sour cream with an egg, chopped dill, crushed garlic, pepper and salt.
- Fill the cabbage with the resulting sauce, generously sprinkle it with grated cheese. The cauliflower should be baked in the oven until golden brown.
The casserole is used as a separate dish and as a side dish.
These cutlets can rightfully be called dietary because of their low calorie content. To cook cutlets, you need to take:
- Medium forks;
- Two slices of white bread;
- Egg;
- Greens and salt at the discretion of the chef;
- Breadcrumbs.
We will cook cutlets in the following sequence:
- We will disassemble the vegetable into inflorescences and rinse them under running water.
- Put it in a container of boiling water with a handful of salt added.
- After no later than 10 minutes, we take out the inflorescences and beat them until they become a thick puree.
- Salt and add the soaked bread.
- Chop the greens and mix with the beaten egg.
- We form cutlets from mashed potatoes in the form of balls, bread them with crackers.
- Fill the bottom of the mold with crackers and put the cutlets into it.
- Bake for 30 minutes, until the cutlets are lightly browned, in the oven. Then, taking out the form, turn the cutlets over, and continue to bake them for 10 minutes.
The dish can be served directly to the table.
You can make an omelet from the following components:
- Half fork;
- ½ glass of milk;
- Four eggs;
- Spices (black pepper, oregano, basil);
- 50 g of cow oil.
We will cook an omelet in the following sequence:
- Separate the cauliflower inflorescences and boil them in slightly salted water for no more than seven minutes.
- We remove them from the broth and dry them.
- Mix salt with spices and eggs, beaten with milk.
- Lay out the inflorescences in a baking dish and fill them with this mixture.
- Put a few pieces of butter on top and send them to bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 20-30 minutes.
Sprinkle each portion with herbs and serve the omelet hot.
List of products that will allow you to cook an omelet:
When preparing an omelette, we will act as follows:
- First of all, we need to cook the cabbage. To do this, boil it for seven minutes with a pinch of salt.
- At the same time, we make sure that it does not fall apart.
- Cut the pepper into rings. We rub the cheese on a coarse grater.
- Mix the cabbage with grated cheese (with most of it), pepper, salt and peas.
- Fill the future omelet with eggs, beaten in milk, and bake for a quarter of an hour in the oven at 180 degrees.
- We take out the omelet, sprinkle it with cheese (its smaller part) and bake the omelet for another five minutes.
It is difficult to tear yourself away from this dish, it is so delicious. The finished omelet can be sprinkled with spices and herbs.
This dish is not only delicious, but also beautiful. Baked cauliflower with minced meat looks great on the dining table. The following products will help us to prepare it:
- Head of cabbage;
- A pound of minced chicken;
- Bulb;
- Garlic wedge;
- 100 g of cheese;
- 60 g mayonnaise;
- Egg;
- Salt with pepper;
- Bread crumbs.
Cooking cabbage with minced meat will require us to do the following:
- After adding some salt to the water, we boil it.
- While the water is boiling, we are engaged in cauliflower. We will have to wash it and disassemble it into inflorescences.
- We immerse them in boiling water for five minutes.
- Having taken out the inflorescences, we let the water drain from them.
- Now let's do the minced chicken. Mix onion, egg, garlic and pepper with salt with minced meat.
- Cover the bottom of the oiled mold with a layer of bread crumbs. We put a dome made of minced meat on it, stick the inflorescences into it, in the manner of a flower bed.
- We cover the structure with a thin layer of sour cream and bake it in the oven at 180 degrees. After half an hour, take it out and sprinkle it, as thick as possible, with grated cheese. Bake until the top of the dish is lightly browned.
Baked cabbage is garnished with herbs and potatoes.
List of products that you will need to make a casserole with cabbage, zucchini and vegetables:
- Middle forks;
- A small vegetable marrow;
- Eggplant;
- Bell pepper;
- Two large tomatoes;
- Garlic wedge;
- Salt, parsley, pepper.
We will cook a casserole with cabbage, vegetables and zucchini, observing the following sequence:
- We pick the inflorescences from the head, rinse and chop them into small pieces.
- Cut the peeled eggplant, pepper and zucchini into cubes and, season with salt, mix with the cabbage on a baking sheet.
- We knock down the chopped tomatoes, garlic, herbs and peppers into a semi-liquid mixture, pour it onto a baking sheet and mix in good faith.
- We push the baking sheet with vegetables and cabbage into the oven, heat up to 200 degrees and bake for 45 minutes.
This dietary dish is very tasty and satisfies hunger well.
For this dish you should take:
- Forks;
- Five carrots;
- Half a glass of low-fat milk;
- Two eggs;
- 30 g butter;
- 200 ml milk sauce;
- Eight potatoes;
- 40 g grated cheese;
- Sugar, salt.
The sequence of operations required to prepare this dish:
- Boil the potatoes and knock down the mashed potatoes, mix thoroughly with butter, milk, salt and egg yolk.
- Cook the cabbage, cut it into small pieces. Pass the carrots.
- Put the mashed potatoes in a mold and, having made a notch in the middle, put the carrots and cabbage there.
- Fill the form with sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese on top and, seasoning with pieces of butter, send to the oven.
- We bake for half an hour at 180 degrees.
The list of products required for casserole looks like this:
- Middle forks;
- 300 g of hard cheese;
- 150 g lean ham;
- 350 g pasta;
- Liter of milk;
- 40 g of cow oil;
- 40 g olive oil;
- Salt, crushed pepper, nutmeg.
The casserole is prepared as follows:
- Separate the inflorescences from the washed fork. Fill the inflorescences with water, throw in a pinch of salt, boil. And after boiling, boil for another 7-10 minutes under a tightly closed lid. After boiling, place the inflorescences in the mold.
- Cook pasta, grate cheese. We cut the ham into bars.
- We put a layer of pasta on top of the cabbage, put the ham on the pasta.
- Beat the flour with melted butter and continue beating, pouring in the milk until the mixture becomes thick.
- Pour the rest of the milk into the mixture. Bring the sauce blank to a boil and, putting half of the grated cheese in it, stir the mixture until the cheese is completely melted.
- Fill the sauce with the cabbage and macaroni dish and fill it with the second part of the grated cheese.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and put the form in it for half an hour.
This dish is just as tasty as other cauliflower dishes.
To prepare a fish casserole, you need to take:
- A kilogram of white fish, fillet;
- One forks of cabbage;
- Four onions;
- Two tomatoes;
- Two carrots;
- ¾ glasses of milk;
- 200 g of hard cheese;
- One chicken egg;
- Vegetable oil;
- Salt.
Let's write down the recipe for the dish step by step:
- Grate the peeled carrots, finely chop the onions, sauté them and level them on the bottom of the baking dish.
- Lay the fillet on top, cut into slices. Salt and pepper.
- Bring the temperature in the oven to 180 degrees, and place the mold in it for a quarter of an hour.
- We remove the shape and put slices of boiled cabbage on top of the fish.
- We make the sauce for the filling by beating the egg with milk. Then fill the shape with it.
- Lay the sliced tomatoes on top of the sauce and sprinkle them with grated cheese.
- We return the form to the oven and bake for another half hour.
Recipe video: Oven baked cauliflower
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Content
Cauliflower also belongs to the category of dietary products. Just don't think that you can't make a delicious dish out of it. There are many ways to prepare this vegetable. Any of them will not leave you indifferent. Roasting recipes are especially popular. Below are several options for how to prepare such dishes.
How to cook cauliflower in the oven
The advantage of this vegetable is its uniqueness, because if you freeze it, it will still retain all its nutrients. In addition, it makes very mouth-watering treats that are quickly prepared. You can pick up all new recipes every day by simply changing the list of additional ingredients. Cauliflower goes well with meats, mushrooms, cheese and eggs. It turns out to be no less tasty with other vegetables. Before baking cauliflower in the oven, it must be properly prepared. To do this, it is boiled according to the technology described below.
Boiling
To boil cabbage inflorescences, you first need to rinse and dry them. Then it is worth disassembling it into smaller parts. They are more convenient to use in almost all recipes. Next, you need to take a saucepan, pour water into it and salt it. It is better to throw in the vegetable after boiling. How much to boil cauliflower before baking? For cooking, 7-10 minutes are enough. Otherwise, the inflorescences will be digested and become more like porridge.
Oven Cauliflower Recipes
Baked cauliflower is a very appetizing yet dietary meal. In any form, it is particularly tender, because it literally melts in your mouth. For dinner, this option can be considered ideal. Crispy cheese crust, mushroom sauce or creamy batter - all this makes cabbage very appetizing. Having tried one of these dishes at least once, you will no longer be able to refuse them. You will find instructions on how to cook a particular treat in the recipes with the photo below.
Baked with cheese
If you need a light snack or a side dish for a meat dish, then oven baked cauliflower with cheese will suit you. It turns out to be very soft, but juicy at the same time. All at the expense of milk sauce. An appetizing cheese crust makes a real delight from such a dish, so it is better to cook more at once so that the appetizer does not end too quickly.
Ingredients:
- cheese - 150 g;
- flour - 3 tbsp. l .;
- salt to taste;
- spices to taste;
- butter - 50 g;
- water - 1 l;
- cauliflower - 0.5 kg;
- milk - 0.3 l.
Cooking method:
- Wash cabbage inflorescences under running water, then divide into smaller ones. If they are too large, then additionally cut into 2 parts.
- Turn on the oven for warming up, choosing a temperature of 200 degrees.
- Pour water into a saucepan, add a little salt, after boiling, place the inflorescences there for a couple of minutes.
- Hold the butter in a hot skillet, then add the flour. Fry the ingredients. When they turn golden, slowly pour in the milk. This does not form lumps. Salt and season with spices.
- If the inflorescences have already been cooked, then discard them in a colander and let them flow around. Then place the product in a baking dish. Top with milk sauce.
- Grate the cheese, sprinkle it on top.
- Bake for about 20 minutes.
Broccoli casserole
This recipe combines two very similar foods - broccoli and oven-baked cauliflower. The first is just a variation of the second. They practically do not differ in taste, but only set off each other, making the cauliflower dish in the oven richer. As a complement to them, processed cheese with garlic is used. As a result, the aroma of the treat becomes even more pleasant.
Ingredients:
- garlic - 1 clove;
- grated cheese - 150 g;
- cauliflower and broccoli - 0.5 kg each;
- processed cheese - 2 pcs.;
- oregano, thyme, salt - to your liking;
- sour cream - 250 g.
Cooking method:
- Wash all cabbage inflorescences under running water, then blanch them for about 7 minutes, then divide large into small ones and place on a baking sheet or heat-resistant form.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- In a separate bowl, mix the crushed garlic, grated cheese, melted cheese curds, sour cream and spices. Pour vegetables with this mass.
- Bake for 20-30 minutes until golden brown.
Minced casserole
A more satisfying, but also a dietary recipe - cauliflower with minced meat, baked in the oven. Even guests at any holiday will appreciate it. It is easy to diversify the recipe, if not just combine the ingredients, but stuff the space between the inflorescences with minced meat. So you get not only an appetizing, but also an original dish. Rely on your imagination. You can even use regular cutlets instead of meat. The recipe with the photo below will help you in cooking.
Ingredients:
- onion - 1 pc.;
- ground black pepper, salt - to your liking;
- pork or ground beef - 0.5 kg;
- mayonnaise - 100 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- cauliflower - 1 kg;
- hard cheese - 150 g.
Cooking method:
- Rinse the cabbage inflorescences, then boil for 5-7 minutes, throwing them into the already boiling water.
- Preheat the oven. The recommended temperature is 180 degrees.
- Then divide into smaller inflorescences, mash them with a fork, and then combine with minced meat so that the mass becomes like dough.
- Form into medium balls and place in the bottom of a greased baking dish.
- Spread a layer of grated cheese on top, send to bake for 20 minutes.
Wholly
Really chic can be considered a recipe in which whole baked cauliflower is prepared. The dish turns out to be so original and beautiful that you can't even dare to eat it right away. The taste is beyond words. It successfully combines products such as sour cream, cheese, garlic and mustard. The result is very pleasant - fragrant cauliflower in the oven with sauce.
Ingredients:
- sour cream - 150 g;
- salt, black pepper - to taste;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- water - about 1 liter;
- bay leaf - 1 pc .;
- cauliflower - 1 medium-sized head of cabbage;
- cheese - 100 g;
- peppercorns - to taste for the broth;
- olive oil - 1 tbsp l .;
- mustard - 1 tbsp l.
Cooking method:
- Fill the pot with water, put it on no fire. After boiling, add clean cabbage inflorescences, seasoning with peppercorns and bay leaves. After 5 minutes, take it into a colander, drain the water.
- Turn on the oven so that it has time to warm up to 180 degrees.
- Chop the garlic, grate the cheese. Mix them with the remaining ingredients.
- Put the boiled head of cabbage on the bottom of an oiled baking dish.
- Coat the vegetable with the prepared sauce on all sides, as shown in the photo.
- Send to bake. For cooking, about half an hour is enough.
Breaded
Another inexpensive, but mouth-watering treat is prepared according to the recipe for cauliflower in batter in the oven. The dish can replace both a light snack and a side dish for a full dinner or lunch. It can be made even tastier if, when serving, sprinkle with herbs or sprinkle with sauce, for example, sour cream or garlic. To make the batter homogeneous, you should use a fine grater to grate the cheese. You can adjust the density with flour.
Ingredients:
- garlic powder - 1 tsp;
- chicken egg - 1 pc.;
- salt - to your liking;
- sweet paprika - 1 tsp;
- bread crumbs - 1 tbsp.;
- grated hard cheese - 1 glass;
- cauliflower - 1 medium-sized head of cabbage.
Cooking method:
- Wash the cabbage inflorescences, disassemble into smaller ones, then blanch for about 4-5 minutes. and put in a colander.
- Take a separate container where you mix the bread crumbs, grated cheese, powder and spices.
- Beat eggs until foamy.
- Dip each inflorescence first in the egg mixture, and then in the dry one.
- Place the cabbage on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake for about 15 minutes. The oven should be preheated to 200 degrees.
With chicken
Another option for a dietary, but hearty dish is chicken and cauliflower in the oven. Such ingredients are combined due to their delicate taste, therefore, the treat from them turns out to be softer. You can reduce the calorie content of a dish by replacing chicken with a turkey. The result will not disappoint you either. Instead of a side dish for such a lunch or dinner, rice or potatoes are suitable.
Ingredients:
- sour cream - 150 g;
- spices, herbs and salt - to your liking;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- cauliflower - 0.4 kg;
- chicken fillet or breast - 0.3 kg.
Cooking method:
- Rinse cabbage inflorescences. Divide into smaller ones, then blanch for only 3-5 minutes.
- Peel the onion, wash, chop finely, then fry in a little vegetable oil.
- Rinse the meat too, cut into medium-sized pieces. Send the chicken to the skillet with the onion, fry for about 10 more minutes.
- Take a baking dish, oil it. Then put the cabbage, coat it with sour cream on top, season with spices. Spread the fillets with onions in the last layer. Grease again with sour cream, season with spices, if desired, also with herbs.
- Cook at 180 degrees for about half an hour.
Vegetable casserole
In addition to meat, cheese and batter, cauliflower goes well with other vegetables, such as tomatoes, peppers, squash, spinach and even peas or corn. Such a dish can definitely be considered a dietary one, because almost all ingredients are low in calories. Oven-baked cauliflower with vegetables can be either an independent snack or a side dish for a more hearty meat dish.
Ingredients:
- spinach - 1 bunch;
- leek - 1 pc .;
- cauliflower and broccoli - 1 head each;
- cheese - 50 g;
- vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. l .;
- egg - 3 pcs.;
- cream - 0.3 l;
- dry Italian herbs - 1 tsp;
- tomato - 2 pcs.;
- pepper and salt - to your liking.
Cooking method:
- Divide both types of cabbage into inflorescences, wash them, then boil in boiling water for about 5 minutes. Then let it drain in a colander.
- Wash the onion and pepper, chop not very finely, fry in a pan for a couple of minutes, then add cabbage, spinach to them and season with spices.
- Beat the eggs, pour in the cream, grind the tomatoes here. Salt the whole mass, mix.
- Put the vegetable frying on the bottom of the baking dish, pour the sauce, spread a layer of grated cheese on top.
- Cook in the oven at 180 degrees. The recommended time is 15-20 minutes.
With mushrooms
If you are looking for some new and interesting recipes, then the method of how to cook cauliflower casserole with mushrooms is perfect for you. It differs not only in its pleasant taste. Such a dish is also very simple to prepare. For variety, you can use spices or dried herbs to your liking. Sour cream or garlic sauce will also be quite appropriate here.
Ingredients:
- pepper, salt - a small pinch;
- cauliflower - 1 head of cabbage;
- olives or olives - 100 g;
- water - about 1 liter for boiling;
- greens - to your liking;
- cheese - about 200 g, better than a hard variety;
- mushrooms - also 200 g;
- vegetable oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Cooking method:
- Fill the saucepan with water, after boiling, lay out the cabbage inflorescences, boil them for 2-3 minutes, no more. Then throw in the chopped mushrooms. After boiling, discard them in a colander.
- Grind olives or olives, whichever is selected for the recipe.
- Wash, finely chop the herbs. Grind the cheese.
- Take a heat-resistant form, grease it with oil.
- Place the mushrooms and cabbage on the bottom first. Sprinkle them with oil, and then put the olives or olives with herbs. Season with salt and spices.
- Sprinkle the grated cheese in the last layer.
- Furnace at 180 degrees. The optimal time is a quarter of an hour.
With egg
Another option for a hearty, but at the same time light and elegant dish is presented in the recipe for cauliflower baked with an egg. For a dietary dinner, such a treat can be considered ideal. Although as a side dish for fish or meat, it goes even better. There are a lot of options for cooking omelet with cauliflower in the oven. On the bottom, you can put a layer of minced meat, pasta or crushed potatoes. One of the options is presented in the recipe below.
Ingredients:
- corn - 70 g;
- breadcrumbs - a little for sprinkling the mold;
- cheese with any herbs - to taste;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- milk - 0.5 cups;
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- butter - 3 tbsp. spoons.
Cooking method:
- Prepare all products: open a jar of corn, rinse and peel the rest of the vegetables. Divide the head of cabbage into smaller inflorescences, boil with carrots until cooked. Do not pour out the broth.
- Beat eggs with salt, then combine with milk, broth and flour.
- Take a baking dish, grease it with butter, sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Place chopped carrots and inflorescences on it.
- Put a few slices of butter on top, pour over the sauce.
- Cook for about half an hour. The optimum temperature is 180 degrees.
- Sprinkle with grated cheese 3 minutes before the end.
Cauliflower casserole in the oven - cooking secrets
There are several secrets that make your oven-baked cauliflower casserole so much tastier. When choosing a main ingredient, it is important to inspect it. The color of the vegetable should be white, and its leaves should be deep green. The inflorescences themselves must be elastic. If you want to make the vegetable even softer, then use not plain water, but mineral or even milk to boil it. You can also add sugar to them, then the inflorescences will not lose their snow-white shade. For the same purpose, the water is seasoned with citric acid, and the pan is not covered with a lid.
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Lingonberry is a perennial, low, evergreen, branching dwarf shrub reaching a height of 10 to 20 cm.
Leaves are small, petiolate, leathery, shiny.
Flowers are pink-white bells, 5mm long, collected at the top of the branches in rare brushes. Blooms in May - early June.
Lingonberry fruits are small in size, bright red berries with a characteristic sweet and sour taste. Ripens in August-September.
Lingonberry is a wild forest berry. Found in the tundra, as well as in forest areas, in the temperate climatic zone. The first attempts to cultivate lingonberries date back to 1745, when a decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna was issued, in which a demand was expressed to find a way to grow lingonberries in the vicinity of St. Petersburg.
But truly massive lingonberry plantations began to appear in the 60s in countries such as the USA, Russia, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Holland, Belarus and Poland. Due to the high level of mechanization, the yield of berries on such plantations is 20-30 times higher than in natural fields.
Calorie content of lingonberry
Lingonberry per 100 g contains only 46 kcal, therefore, eating it you can not be afraid that it will cause extra pounds if you are on a diet. Overweight people also need not think about the fact that the berry can aggravate the situation.
Nutritional value per 100 grams:
Useful properties of lingonberry
Lingonberry contains carbohydrates, useful organic acids (citric, salicylic, malic, etc.), pectin, carotene, tannins, vitamins, C,. Berries contain up to 10-15% sugars (glucose, sucrose, fructose), as well as potassium, calcium, magnesium, manganese, iron and phosphorus. Due to the large amount of benzoic acid, lingonberries are well preserved and have preservative properties.
Lingonberry leaves contain tannins, arbutin, hydroquinone, tannin and carboxylic acids. Also gallic, quinic, tartaric acids and vitamin C.
Lingonberry seeds contain fatty carboxylic acids: linoleic and linolenic.
Lingonberry treatment. This is a very valuable medicinal plant. Most of the leaves have healing properties. It is not difficult to prepare them yourself. To do this, in April and until mid-May (while the plant does not yet have buds or they are very small and green), the leaves are carefully plucked from the branches by hand.
In folk medicine, lingonberry is known as a tonic, wound healing, antipyretic, antiscorbutic and with avitaminosis A, anthelmintic, with dysentery, hypoacid gastritis, hepato-cholecystitis, salt deposits, stomach tumors, antiseptic, hemostatic, diabetic, rheumatic and internal tuberculosis lungs, jaundice, hypertension, neurasthenia, enteritis, antibacterial. A decoction of leaves and fruits mixed with the fruits of St. John's wort - with enuresis, and mixed with blueberries - with typhus. Liquid extract - sedative and diuretic.
Lingonberry fruits are used in homeopathy for the preparation of essences. In dried and fresh form and juice - for avitaminosis A and C. Water infusion and decoction - laxative, for dysentery and rheumatism, diuretic and antiseptic, anthelmintic, anti-rot and bactericidal. Juice and extract - tonic and tonic for fever, colds, malaria, measles, symptomatic treatment of skin cancer and stomach tumors, diabetes. The fruits improve visual acuity and are recommended for pilots, sailors, hunters, and drivers with eye strain.
You can pick the leaves in the fall after picking the berries. But the leaves collected in summer turn black when dried and are unsuitable as raw materials. A decoction of lingonberry leaves has a diuretic antiseptic and astringent effect. It is indicated for cystitis, kidney stones, gout, osteochondrosis, arthritis. The greatest efficiency is manifested with an alkaline reaction. Therefore, it is recommended to drink a decoction of lingonberry leaves with appropriate mineral water.
To prepare the broth, pour the required amount of grams of crushed leaves (2 tablespoons) in an enamel bowl with 200 milliliters (1 glass) of boiling water. Heat covered in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes. Then refrigerate for 10 minutes and drain. Bring the broth volume to 200 milliliters with boiled water. Take, be sure to agree on the dose with your doctor, 30-40 minutes before meals.
Lingonberries are rich in sugars, organic acids, vitamins. In medicine, they are used as an adjuvant in the treatment of hypertension and gastritis with low acidity. Water infusion of berries (fruit drink) quenches thirst well: it is often recommended for patients with high fever. In addition, the lingonberry infusion has a slight laxative effect.
Lingonberry juice also has medicinal properties. It slightly lowers blood pressure, has a weak sedative effect, enhances intestinal motility, has antipyretic and diuretic effects. For colds, you can recommend sick linden flower tea with lingonberry jam. It is not only tasty, but also healthy!
An infusion of lingonberry leaves is used as a diuretic for kidney and liver diseases, as well as for rheumatism and gout. 10 g of leaves are poured with 100 g of boiling water, insisted for 2 hours, filtered. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day before meals.
With general weakness, colds, constipation, headache, flu, take a drink from lingonberry juice. 50 g of juice is diluted with 150 g of chilled boiled water, sugar or honey is added to taste. Drink 100 g 3-4 times a day after meals.
For constipation, liver disease, kidney disease, colitis, take 100 g of lingonberry infusion 4 times a day before meals. 200 g of berries are poured in a colander with boiling water, and then infused in 400 g of chilled boiled water for 6 hours.
The use of lingonberry berries and lingonberry juice is recommended for hypo - and vitamin deficiencies, gastritis with low acidity of gastric juice, with high blood pressure. Infusions and decoctions of berries and leaves of lingonberry are used as a diuretic, astringent and antiseptic.
A decoction of lingonberry berries quenches thirst well in case of fever. Lingonberry juice is drunk with neuroses and anemia. With rheumatism, hypertension, lingonberry has an anti-sclerotic effect, strengthens the walls of blood vessels.
A decoction of lingonberry leaves is used for diabetes mellitus, rheumatism, kidney disease, gout (helps dissolve and remove stones). Lingonberry leaves are brewed and like tea. Lingonberry tea restores strength well and relieves fatigue. Lingonberry berries are used for pulmonary tuberculosis, stomach catarrh, kidney stones, as a vitamin and anti-putrefactive agent. Lingonberry juice sharpens vision, is very useful for neuroses and anemia.
Lingonberry berries have an anti-ulcer effect, lower blood cholesterol, improve the functioning of the stomach and intestines, and lower blood pressure. Young shoots of lingonberry are used as a pain reliever and antidepressant.
Blooming lingonberry shoots heal female ailments and help maintain pregnancy. Lingonberry jam is extremely useful for women in labor. In addition, it has been proven that lingonberry enhances the activity of antibiotics and sulfa drugs, therefore, with various fevers, as well as to increase appetite after severe illnesses and injuries, it is difficult to find something more useful than lingonberry juice.
Dangerous properties of lingonberry
Lingonberry has one extremely harmful property. No plant can boast of such a tendency to accumulate radioactive substances. This poses a great danger to the body. Therefore, it is necessary to eat only those berries that were collected as far as possible from highways, cemeteries, and factory complexes.
Also, this fruit can be harmful for those who have an increased secretory function of the stomach, therefore, ulcers are advised to refrain from using it. You should not eat lingonberries for people with low blood pressure, because it has a pronounced pressure-lowering effect.
Video recipe for making a delicious and healthy lingonberry and banana smoothie.
