Cauli Cheese Pasta Bake
Introducing our recipe for cauli cheese pasta bake. This vegan pasta bake is cheesy, gooey, melty and totally delicious. This easy veggie pasta bake with minimal ingredients and its a quick vegan recipe too! Simply put your cauli and pasta on to cook whilst you make your cheese sauce. The vegan cheese sauce recipe is super gooey, you wouldn't know it's a dairy free cheese sauce! Once your cheese sauce is made, mix it in with your cooked pasta and cauliflower. Layer it in a baking tin and pop it in the oven, make sure to use breadcrumbs on top for that added crunch! Bring your cauli cheese pasta bake out the oven and serve straight away. We like to serve ours with a little side salad. Enjoy! If you like this cauli cheese pasta bake recipe, let us know in the comments! We'd love to see your recreations as well so send us a pic on Instagram! Like this? Get even more tasty recipes in the BOSH! Cookbook
Serves
Ingredients
For the recipe
<item-todo-done>1 tsp garlic powder<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>1 tbsp English mustard<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>1 large cauliflower<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>70g plant-based butter<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>50g plain flour<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>500ml plant-based milk<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>25g nutritional yeast<item-todo-done><item-todo-done> Salt & pepper to taste<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>400g penne pasta<item-todo-done><item-todo-done> side salad<item-todo-done><item-todo-done> chives garnish<item-todo-done><item-todo-done>200g plant-based cheese<item-todo-done>
Before you start
Preheat the oven to 200°C | Lasagne dish | Grater | Pan
Cook the pasta
- Put the saucepan on the stove, pour in the water from the kettle, add a generous pinch of salt
- Pour in the penne and cook for 4 minutes
- Add 1 large cauliflower, broken into florets, and cook for a further 5 mins
Make the sauce
- Whilst the cauliflower and pasta is cooking, melt the dairy free butter in the pan, sieve in the flour and stir it into the dairy free butter to make a thick, sticky roux
- Pour the dairy free milk into the pan gradually, stirring constantly, until the sauce is smooth and creamy
Finish the sauce
- Grate the dairy free cheese and add the nutritional yeast, garlic powder & mustard into the pan, stirring constantly, until the dairy free cheese has melted and combined with the sauce
- Add 6 tbsp of pasta water to the pan and stir it into the sauce
- Taste the sauce, season with salt and pepper and turn the heat of the stove right down
Combine the ingredients
- Drain the cooked cauliflower & penne with a colander and pour into the cheesy sauce and mix together
Bake in the oven
- Pour the contents of the pan into a baking dish, and put in the oven for 15 minutes or until bubbling
- Remove the roasting dish from the oven
- Serve the Baked Cauliflower Cheese Penne Pasta with a side salad, garnish with chives