Quick recipe finder Braised broccoli with cheese sauce

Preparation time

less than 30 mins

Cooking time

10 to 30 mins

Serves

Serves 1

Dietary

Vegetarian

By Brian Turner From Ready Steady Cook

Ingredients

• 85g/3oz Blue Vinnie cheese, or similiar hard, crumbly blue cheese
• 200ml/7fl oz double cream
• 1 tsp Dijon mustard
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 100g/3½oz purple sprouting broccoli, blanched, drained

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.

2. Heat a small saucepan over a low to medium heat, crumble in the cheese and add the cream and mustard. Stir until the cheese is melted, then season, to taste, with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

3. Arrange the blanched broccoli in an ovenproof gratin dish and pour over the cheese sauce.

4. Bake in the oven for 5-10 minutes, or until the cheese mixture is golden-brown and bubbling.

This recipe is from…

Ready Steady Cook

Episode 11

BBC Two

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