Cauliflower & Potato Pie With Mustard & Herb Crumble
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
6-8
ingredients
- 600 g potatoes, such as agria (or floury potatoes good for mashing)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 70 ml milk, heated
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- freshly grated nutmeg
- 1 cup grated tasty cheddar cheese
- 1 egg yolk
- 1⁄2 large very fresh cauliflower, trimmed and cut into florets
- 2 fresh bay leaves
- 4 slices toast-thick slices white bread, 1-2 days old
- 1⁄2 tablespoon thyme leaves
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 30 g unsalted butter
- 1⁄2 tablespoon creamy Dijonnaise mustard
directions
- Peel potatoes, cut into chunks and cook in gently boiling, salted water until tender. Drain and mash with butter, adding hot milk to make a light, fluffy purée. Season with the salt and a good grating of fresh nutmeg, and beat in half the cheese. Cool for 5 minutes then beat in the egg yolk. Spoon into a well-buttered ovenproof dish.
- While potatoes are cooking, cook cauliflower and make crumb topping. Plunge cauliflower into a saucepan of boiling salted water to which you have added the bay leaves. Cook without a lid for several minutes, or just until the thickest part of the stem is fork-tender; do not overcook. Drain, rinse with cold water and leave again to drain. Dry off on absorbent kitchen paper.
- Remove crusts from the bread and cut bread into cubes. Make into crumbs using a food processor or blender. Put crumbs in a bowl and stir through thyme and black pepper. Heat butter until just melted and mix into the crumbs with a fork, adding the mustard; the crumbs should be loose and not gluggy. Mix through the rest of the cheese.
- Pile cauliflower on top of potato in the dish, then put on the crumbs. Bake in an oven preheated to 200°C for 30 minutes, or until golden on top.
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