Keto Cauliflower With Cheese Recipe

If you love cheesy goodness, you have come to the right place! This Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole is a life saver when you need some good ole, keto-friendly comfort food! This dish has become my stand in when I’m craving old school mac and cheese. I also love these Cauliflower Tots for a keto craving on a classic dish!

This version is just as hearty and satisfying as your classic favorites, but without all the carbs! If you’ve read this blog long, you know I’m big on comfort food. First going gluten-free meant I needed to adjust all my favorite recipes, then going keto meant I had to do it all over again!

It’s really paying off, though. Making sure I have recipes I love is what has been keeping me on track. Having comforting dishes like Keto Shrimp & Grits or this Instant Pot Keto Beef Stew has made this transition as easy as can be! Now that we’re adding this low-carb alternative to mac & cheese, maybe these tasty, healthier recipes will help you out, too!

Cauliflower Mac And Cheese (6 Ingredients!)

This recipe features basic ingredients you probably already have on hand. Keep scrolling for specific ingredient amounts in the recipe card, but here’s a quick overview of what you’ll need:

You need to follow a few basic steps to make this dish. Begin by removing all the stems from a head of cauliflower. Place the cauliflower in an 11×7 baking dish lightly greased with olive oil, then roast the cauliflower for 15 minutes at 400 degrees F.

While the cauliflower is roasting, prepare the cheese sauce. In a small pan combine the butter, garlic, milk, heavy cream, and cream cheese. Whisk until the mixture is smooth, then stir in the cheddar until completely melted. To finish the sauce, bring the mixture to a slight simmer until it has thickened.

Keto Loaded Cauliflower Casserole

Yes, if you prefer to steam the cauliflower, you can steam 7-8 minutes until the cauliflower has softened slightly. You need to either roast or steam the cauliflower before adding the cheese sauce to help release the moisture. If you skip this step your cheese sauce is likely to be more watery than you’d like.

Leftovers should be stored in an air-tight container and kept in the fridge up to four days. I would not recommend freezing due to the high cream content.

To reheat, the best option to preserve the texture is to warm the casserole in the oven at 350 degrees F until warmed throughout. The timing for this truly depends on the amount of leftovers you’re reheating. If you are only reheating a small amount (1-2 portions), microwaving in 30-45 second intervals until the center is warmed is the easiest option.

Loaded Keto Cauliflower Casserole With Broccoli And Cheese

This tasty, cheesy dish can go with so many entrées! These Keto Steak Rolls would pair perfectly with this creamy casserole, and picky eaters might love dipping these Keto Chicken Tenders into the cheesy sauce! I also think this Asparagus Stuffed Chicken or Parmesan Pecan Crusted Halibut would be impressive pairings for company!

If you’d like to make this casserole filling enough to act as a full meal, you could add any protein of your choosing. With some smart meal planning, you could add grilled leftovers like this Easy BBQ pork tenderloin, maybe thisChipotle Ranch Grilled Chicken, or even this Smoked Turkey! Cooking this Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken on your meal prep day, then saving a portion for this casserole would make it super easy to bulk up this meal!

Easy sides like Air Fryer Roasted Broccoli or Roasted Brussels Sprouts would be quick and complementary to the creamy sauce in the Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole. You could also pull together a quick, easy salad like this Asparagus, Avocado, and Tomato Salad. If you’d like some great keto bread options, I highly recommend either these Bacon Cheddar Chive Biscuits or Rosemary Garlic Keto Rolls!RECIPE SAVED! The recipe was sent to your email. I also sent you your free login info. You can use that to access your saved recipes at My Favorites.

Keto Cauliflower Casserole

If you’re looking for a low carb keto mac and cheese replacement, you may be surprised by this cauliflower mac and cheese recipe! Like many keto cauliflower recipes, this dish takes on the flavors of the sauce. It’s almost like the real thing, and

Fulfill that comfort food craving — but if you want real noodles, you can pour the same sauce over keto pasta noodles or other low carb pasta alternatives instead.

Growing up in a Russian-speaking family, I didn’t get to try all-American macaroni and cheese until much later. I still remember tasting it for the first time, not knowing (or caring!) about how processed it was. The carbs in mac and cheese didn’t even cross my mind. I missed this dish dearly when I switched to a low carb lifestyle, and came up with this keto mac and cheese version to fulfill that need.

Cheesy Cauliflower Bake

This dish tastes so amazing that I included it in The Easy Keto Carboholics’ Cookbook, along with 99 other recipes that let you enjoy the flavor of high-carb foods while sticking to your macros. You’ll see how to make cauliflower mac and cheese keto, along with incredible low carb recipes for pasta, bread, desserts, and more!

Keto cauliflower mac and cheese tastes like all the cheesy goodness of macaroni and cheese, but using cauliflower florets instead of macaroni and the same type of rich cheese sauce as the original.Even if you’re a die-hard pasta lover, I think you’ll love the flavors in this dish. Roasted cauliflower makes a great stand-in for macaroni on the keto diet — hence the name. It’s delicious as a keto side dish or vegetarian keto main dish.

This section explains how to choose the best ingredients for low carb mac and cheese, what each one does in the recipe, and substitution options. For measurements, see the recipe card below.

Keto Broccoli Cauliflower Casserole

I love this sauce so much that I wrote a post dedicated to this keto cheese sauce recipe. In addition to keto cauliflower mac and cheese, it’s delicious for topping or dipping fresh or roasted broccoli.

If you want keto mac and cheese with a crumb topping, you’ll also need crushed pork rinds. Transfer the mixture to a baking dish after the last step, sprinkle with crushed pork rinds, and broil for a few minutes until golden.

This section shows how to make keto mac and cheese with cauliflower, including step-by-step photos and details about the technique, to help you visualize it. For full instructions, including amounts and temperatures, see the recipe card below.

Baked Cauliflower Mac And Cheese {keto!}

For more complex flavors, add spices like garlic powder, onion powder, smoked paprika, or your favorite spice mixes. You can also add seasonings directly to the cheese sauce.

However, if you find that the sauce is not thick enough, you can simply add more shredded cheese to the sauce before tossing with the cauliflower. If it’s too thick, you can thin out with more almond milk or cream.

I love to serve thiscauliflower mac and cheese recipe with a simple protein to turn it into a whole meal. Here are a few keto main dish recipes for you to choose from:

Cheesy Cauliflower Casserole (extra Creamy!) Easy Low Carb

Cauliflower is one of my favorite low carb vegetables, so I have tons of recipes with it. Browse all my keto cauliflower recipes here, but here are some reader favorites:

This reader favorite recipe is included in The Wholesome Yum Easy Keto Carboholics’ Cookbook! Inside this beautiful hard cover keto recipe book, you’ll find 100 delectable, EASY keto recipes to replace all your favorite carbs: bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, desserts, and more… each with 10 ingredients or less! Plus, a photo, macros, & tips for every recipe.

An easy cauliflower mac and cheese recipe with just 6 ingredients + 5 minutes prep time! This low carb keto mac and cheese is rich, cheesy, and will satisfy your cravings for macaroni.

Cauliflower Broccoli Mac And Cheese

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© Copyright Maya Krampf for Wholesome Yum. Please DO NOT SCREENSHOT OR COPY/PASTE recipes to social media or websites. We’d LOVE for you to share a link with photo instead. 🙂In my office I have a small bookshelf next to the desk that has many years of notebooks with recipe notes and blogging info. And some of the recipe notebooks are from long before I ever heard of blogging.

I re-discovered this recipe for Easy Cheesy Baked Keto Cauliflower in one of those notebooks and was intrigued by how easy it was, and when we tested the recipe we absolutely loved it! My old notes had no information about the source of the recipe so I can’t give any credit to anyone, although we changed it a bit when we made it for the blog.

Roasted Cauliflower Recipe With Cheese Sheet Pan

And let’s be honest, I did wonder if this blog needs another easy cheesy cauliflower recipe since Twice Baked Cauliflower, Cauliflower Gratin, and Cheesy Baked Cauliflower Tots are all such popular recipes.

But the absolute easiness of this recipe, combined with the way it uses common ingredients, convinced me that many of you will like it.