Bacon fat roasted vegetables with melted cheese
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 30 mins to 1 hour
- Serve
- Serves 2
- Dietary
- Nut-free
Bacon fat and a comforting melty cheese mixture make these roasted winter vegetables something really quite special. Proper comfort food.
Ingredients
- bacon: 4 rashers streaky bacon, smoked or unsmoked
- rosemary: 1 sprig rosemary
- shallot: 1 banana shallot, halved
- cauliflower: 1 small cauliflower, broken into florets, with leaves
- Brussels sprouts: 4 Brussels sprouts, trimmed and halved
- squash: 陆 small squash, peeled, seeds removed and roughly chopped
- celeriac: 录 celeriac, peeled and roughly chopped
For the warm Comt茅 cheese mixture
- : 300g/10陆 oz Comt茅, grated
- Dijon mustard: 2 tsp Dijon mustard
- lager: 50ml/2fl oz lager
- egg yolks: 3 free-range egg yolks
To serve
- 肠谤辞没迟辞苍蝉: 100驳/3陆辞锄 肠谤辞没迟辞苍蝉
- watercress: bunch watercress
Method
Preheat the oven to 200/180C Fan/Gas 6.
Heat a medium frying pan over a medium heat and add the bacon to a pan along with the rosemary. Cook until the bacon crisps and then remove and set aside, reserving the fat from the pan.
Place the vegetables onto a baking tray. Pour the bacon fat over the vegetables, season with salt and pepper and roast in the oven for 20 minutes or so until soft.
To make the warm Comt茅 cheese mixture, preheat a grill to medium. Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl, spoon into 2 small oven-proof dish and place under a medium grill until bubbling.
To serve, scatter some 肠谤辞没迟辞苍蝉 and the roasted vegetables over the cheese and top with the watercress and crisp bacon.
