Mashed Cauliflower with Cheese and Dill
(This is an old recipe that has been archived on the site, but I am keeping the printer-friendly version here so that people who have enjoyed the recipe can still find it.)
INGREDIENTS
- 1 large head cauliflower (see notes)
- salt, for water to cook cauliflower
- 1 T butter
- 3 T finely chopped fresh dill (see notes)
- 1 tsp. fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 2 T half and half (see notes)
- 1/2 C grated cheese
- 1/4 C crumbled Feta cheese (see notes)
- salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
INSTRUCTIONS
- Wash cauliflower and remove core, then cut and break into small flowerets.
- Bring a large pot water to a boil, add a generous amount of salt, and boil cauliflower until it is quite soft, about 20 minutes.
- Pour cauliflower into a colander and let it drain well for about 5 minutes. (Don’t rush the draining step or the dish will probably be too watery.)
- When cauliflower is well drained, pour back into cooking pot and add butter, lemon juice, and chopped fresh dill.
- Mash with potato masher, until ingredients are well mixed.
- Add half and half and both types of cheese and mash again until cheese is mixed in and cauliflower is quite soft. You can use an electric beater or food processer for the final mashing if you prefer.
- Taste cauliflower and season to taste with salt and fresh ground black pepper.
- You may need to put it back on the stove and warm for 2-3 minutes before serving. Serve hot.
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29 Comments on “Mashed Cauliflower with Cheese and Dill”
Pille, so glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for your reminder over on FB – made this for dinner tonight. Wonderful!!!
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So glad you are enjoying the recipes!
This was delicious. I made the family dinner last night, South Beach style, and everyone went for seconds. This cauliflower mash was particularly popular. Thank you for the many inspirational recipes on here.
I'm back on phase one of South Beach, and have been visiting your site for inspiration, as the standard South Beach versions no longer thrill me.
Thought I'd share something I did with my "mashed". I added no butter or milk, but used a large Tbsp. of low fat sour cream (I guess one could go with non-fat)and a couple of good dollops of the light ricotta I had in the fridge. The consistency was better than I'd found with the traditional recipe and it was so tasty!
Amy, so glad Sue and I could help your husband enjoy his Thanksgiving. (And actually I think the addition of a little bacon in this sounds sublime. It’s still mostly cauliflower, no matter what else you add!)
This recipe was great!! I used dry dill seasoning (alot less) and added some bacon pieces. The bacon was not the best thing to add, but this was my husbands first Thanksgiving as a diabetic and I wanted him to be fulfilled. It tasted just like mashed potatoes; I even ate it instead of the real thing.
I pretty much made it exactly as it listed. It gave me my first chance to use the dill in the back yard. Awesome tasting, definately liked the feta flavor in there.
Dill is a really interesting herb. Yes, it’s fabulous with fish, but then you start discovering how well it goes with other things too. We had a lamb and dill stew in Brussels that just ROCKED. Speaking of rocking, I am loving the sound of this recipe. We have a GIANT head of cauliflower in the fridge right now, far too much for 2 people for 1 meal. I can see half of it ending up as this!
I can’t get enough caulfilower recipes and this one looks great. Will definitely be picking up a cauli this week!
This sounds so good – but I can’t get cauliflower now – maybe at the big supermarkets….
The feta and dill together, wonderful combination
Last year I had tons of dill – and, hopefully next year I will again. Isn’t it fun when one ‘can use with abandon’?
this looks fantastic and makes me think that some broccoli in it would give some lovely green speckles
This looks great, going to have to try this out at my block party this month. Thanks!
What a lovely idea to add dill to cauliflower. One of our favourite dishes is cauliflower au gratin. We just got a beautiful new casserole dish at a garage sale and can’t wait til cauliflower is in season.
I hope our dill has survived til then so we can add dill to the gratin dish! I too have been harvesting the poor little plants mercilessly. Dill is too good, isnt’ it?
-Elizabeth
Oh i do love cauliflower and love this recipe. I have never thought of mashing it before. how unique!
Nice seeing so many cauliflower and dill fans!
cauliflower is really tasty
I have dill that kindly seeded itself this year, and it does pair marvelously with roasted cauliflower! I’ve not mashed it before, and now plan to. Thanks!
Oh, good recipe! I just got a bunch of fresh dill from my CSA delivery. Now I know what I’ll do with it! Thanks, what a healthy and yummy sounding side dish!
Melissa
Sue I know you’ll like the version with feta too, but it’s your idea of combining mashed cauliflower with dill that’s so brilliant. I think any type of cheese that melts well would be great in this!
Thanks for the compliment Kalyn.
I will try it with the feta since I love feta so much.
Peter, I already loved mashed cauliflower, but the mashed cauliflower with dill was even better! That Sue is brilliant!
Katerina, I loved the feta here, but I’m sure this would be great with any type of cheese.
Thanks Pille. Will watch for your cauliflower recipe too!
EC Vancouver, thanks!
Joanna, hooray! I love to hear about people getting inspired to grow herbs.
TW, truly it was! Even my slightly veggie adverse father liked it.
I love the addition of dill to anything! I have never tried mashed cauliflower, but this looks absolutely delicious.
Mmmm, I love dill!! I recently bought a basil plant to grow on my fire escape, and now that it’s doing well, I want to add a few more herbs out there — dill and parsley will probably be next. Yum!
I love cauliflower and I love dill. Great combination!
That sounds absolutely delicious! We just had cauliflower for dinner – had I seen your recipe earlier, I would have made two different cauliflower dishes!!
This looks really good, I love the idea of the feta and cauliflower. I am growing dill for the first time this year and I used it in some scrambled eggs the other day. So yummy.
I love mashed cauliflower…must try it with dill.
If you can still find some seeds, you can plant more dill, grow it in stages so you have it all the time.