Cauliflower Gratin

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2002

Poorly made cauliflower gratin is a gruesome merger of floury sauce and mealy cauliflower sitting under a damp carpet of bread crumbs. Here is our take on how to do it right.

SERVES 6

TIME 1¼ hours

Cauliflower Gratin

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In developing a cauliflower gratin recipe, our goal was to marry tender yet toothsome cauliflower florets with a lightly thickened sauce, then to top it all off with buttery, crisp crumbs. We par-cooked the florets before adding them to the...

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