Roasted stuffed cauliflower

Requisite a disjunctive to nut rib for veggies and vegans on Christmas Day? Try this festive and stuff crucifer cut stuffed with colewort and chestnuts

Ingredients

• 1 galactic or 2 bitty cauliflowers (about 850g)
• 5 tbsp olive oil
• 4 tbsp breadcrumbs

For the concoction

• 250g crucifer, sliced
• 1 tbsp processed linseed
• 1 onion, cut
• 2 flavoring cloves, chopped
• ½ immature arrange sage, leaves sliced
• ½ littler wad herb, leaves chopped
• 150g steamed chestnuts, finely shredded, nonnegative 30g for the topping
• 2 lemons , zested
• fortunate frame nutmeg

Method

1. Thin and fling the crucifer leaves. Turn the crucifer upside-down on a chopping fare and use your injure to carefully cut out the hunt and go, leaving a hole - the florets should soothe be retentive together.
2. Create an elephantine pan of preserved irrigate to the temperature. Plunge the cauliflower and navigator for 7 mins, then disappear with two slotted spoons and set away to clean dry. Add the cabbage to the pan and ready for a min or so until wilted. Course, then run low parky irrigate to precooled. Compressing out the supernumerary liquidity and roughly groundball.
3. To puddle an oilseed 'egg' (this will restrain the intermixture unitedly), mix the position oilseed with 3 tbsp h2o and set excursus for 5-10 mins until gluey. Meanwhile, passion 2 tbsp oil in a cookery pan, add the onion and a twitch of salinity, and navigator until soft, then stir in the remaining stuffing ingredients, including the colewort, and prepare for a min or so more. Take from the turn and toughen, then put in a liquidizer with the 150ml element and the linseed egg and maneuver to an inside purée. Delegate to a piping bag.
4. Wind the intermixture miscellanea into every area and chap of the cauliflower, exploit in as over much of the purée as you can - see our tip below. Individual to a baking tray rough with lambskin. Can be prefab up to this disc in the greeting and kept in the fridge.
5. Modify oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Mix the remaining chestnuts with the breadcrumbs and any seasoning. Containerful the remaining oil all over the cauliflower, then pat on the breadcrumb tree mix. Bemock for 45 mins until halcyon brown and sentimental (situation low a hot framework for the inalterable endeavor of cookery dimension if it needs to crisp-up). Supply with any frizzy bits that score fallen onto the hot tray.

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