Jamie Oliver cooks up hearty cauliflower mac and cheese using leftover veggies

Jamie Oliver cooks up hearty cauliflower mac and cheese using leftover veggies

04/02/2020

Jamie Oliver served up some real hearty food content, thanks to his traybake of cauliflower macaroni cheese.

The celebrity chef is trying to inspire us all to get in the kitchen during the coronavirus lockdown with his new show Keep On Cooking and Carry On, which sees him creating recipes out of what’s leftover in the cupboards or the fridge.

Noting that some food essentials are getting hard to come by, Jamie’s been inspired to work with what he’s got and still deliver us the comfort food we’re all craving.

We’ve had his quick chilli recipe, homemade pasta using just two ingredients, there was his one-pan midnight breakfast and now, we’ve got a veggie-loaded take on mac and cheese.

Jamie told viewers: ‘Genuinely looking through the fridges, there’s actually not that much left, a bit of a meat, few veggies.’

He revealed that one of his kids wanted pasta-bake for lunch, while another was all for cauliflower cheese. So, naturally, he merged the two to give us all his cauliflower mac and cheese traybake.

Cauliflower is obviously the ‘king’ ingredient, but Jamie encourages you to throw in whatever vegetables you have left lying around: ‘It’s all about getting the good stuff in a classic dish.’

He’s using leeks, fennel and celery.

Tip: Pre-cook your pasta (it doesn’t have to be macaroni), save the starchy water its cooked in and compile your leftover bread pieces going to waste, leaving them out until they become stale.

Yes, really. Stale.

Now, you’re set, here’s what to do next:

Jamie says this type of dish works perfectly for batch cooking, so you can make extra to save for a later date or it you’re thinking about cooking up a treat for somebody who is vulnerable right now, maybe an elderly neighbour?

He also dug out two recipes from his archive for fans to try including a sausage bake and a kid-friendly recipe for flapjack biscuits.

Happy cooking!

Jamie Oliver’s Keep Cooking and Carry On is on every weekday this week at 5:30pm on Channel 4.

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