Roasted Cauliflower with Blue Cheese Sauce & Bacon
Tender roasted cauliflower dripping with blue cheese sauce and sprinkled with crispy bacon. Oh, yes. This Roasted Cauliflower with Blue Cheese Sauce & Bacon is the best side dish ever. And it only has four ingredients!
I’ve been wanting to make a whole roasted cauliflower for years. I finally decided to try it a week or two ago. I even filled a Ziploc bag with this blue cheese sauce and tried piping it between the florets of the cauliflower. It was a good first attempt but most of the cheese I had piped in oozed out, the cheese sauce cooked faster than the cauliflower, and it took forever for the cauliflower to get tender enough.
But the easy blue cheese sauce and bacon on the cauliflower was divine. I had to try again. And, speaking of the blue cheese sauce. It has just 2 ingredients. Can you guess what they are?
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This was seriously one of the best things I have ever eaten. Ever. This was one of those moments when I served small portions to my children and hoped they didn’t ask for more.
My kids are pretty good eaters but the ten and under crowd doesn’t normally appreciate blue cheese. I didn’t like it until I was in my mid-twenties. It started to become more popular and would end up in salads quite frequently. I developed a taste for it amidst that classic glazed pecan, craisin, blue cheese, spinach salad.
How to Roast Cauliflower Wedges
After my attempt to roast an entire head of cauliflower I realized I had two options. I could boil it and then roast it to make sure the inside gets tender or I could cut it into smaller pieces.
I absolutely did not want to boil the cauliflower first. Who wants another dirty pot? Not me. So I quartered the cauliflower and roasted it for a while before adding the sauce. Perfection.
Easy Blue Cheese Sauce
All my blue cheese sauce contains is mayonnaise and blue cheese. That’s it. And it is absolutely divine. The blue cheese is salty enough that you don’t even need to add salt to the cauliflower. If you enjoy fresh cracked pepper go ahead and crack some on top.
This keto blue cheese sauce is also the base for my keto blue cheese dressing.
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Roasted Cauliflower with Blue Cheese Sauce & Bacon
Ingredients
- 1 head of cauliflower quartered, leaves and lower stem removed
- 1/2 cup mayo
- 1 cup blue cheese finely chopped
- 1/2 cup bacon crumbles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray. Put the cauliflower quarters on the baking sheet and cook for 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, stir together the mayo and blue cheese.
- After 30 minutes the cauliflower should be slightly tender. Spread with the blue cheese sauce. Sprinkle on the bacon. Bake for 10-15 minutes until the cheese sauce is golden.
Nutrition
Originally published October 29. 2016. Revised and republished September 17, 2018.
This was a pleasant new take on a familiar recipe. I would point out, though , that both blue cheese and bacon (and mayo) all contain salt, which put this on the verge of too salty for me (but not for my wife!) I counteracted by mixing in some sour cream. We also ate it alone as a supper, whereas the degree of saltiness can be sorted out by (e.g.) a contrasting salad.
Amazing-thank you.
very easy and very lovely.
I love this recipe! I’m having it for dinner tonight but I’m using 4 slices of bacon instead of crumbles and tossing the separated florets and sliced stem in some of the rendered fat before roasting them on a parchment-covered sheet pan for ~20 minutes at 425°F. After they’ve cooled down a bit I’ll transfer them to a lightly greased casserole dish (using a little bit more of the bacon fat), then cover with the blue cheese sauce, but I’ll be replacing half of the mayonnaise with sour cream that I have in the fridge. I’ve found that sour cream cuts the cloying richness of mayonnaise. If it doesn’t look like enough sauce, I’ll stretch it with 1-2 T. of cream. I’ll also be adding plenty of fresh-cracked black pepper because it goes so well with blue cheese. Your original recipe merits 5 stars — if you only knew how many recipes fell way short of the mark before I found this one!
Delicious and easy to prepare…loved this dish. Thank you!
these reviews are from folks who hadn’t made it yet. Honestly no help
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This looks so darn good! Maybe this magical recipe will get my hubby & 13 year old to eat cauliflower. I usually have to puree it or rice it and hide it in a casserole or baked good to get them to eat it.
Ummm… OMG! This looks so delicious, I can’t even tell you! Thank you so much for the recipe. I’m lucky that the 10 and under club are good eaters at my house, so I totally would be worried that they (especially my son) would be asking for more! My fork would be ready to defend. Lol. Thanks.
Roasting a whole cauliflower is on my to-cook list too – quartering it sounds like a great idea!
What a great side dish – I’ve just been to the cheese shop and bought lots of lovely varieties, but did not get a blue cheese this time. Will definitely do that soon!