Meat casserole with cauliflower

Ingredients

• milk
• 1 red bell pepper
• vegetable oil
• carrots - 1 pc.
• 1 head of cauliflower
• 800 g minced meat
• 1 bunch fresh thyme
• 300 g white bread
• onion - 1 onion

Cooking

Step 1

1. Put the minced meat in a deep bowl. Cut off the crust from the bread, break the pulp into pieces and soak in milk. When the bread is soaked, squeeze it out and add to the minced meat. 2. Peel onions and carrots. Wash the pepper, remove the core. Cut all vegetables into small cubes. In a frying pan, heat 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil and, stirring constantly, fry vegetables (4 min.). 3. Wash thyme, dry, chop. Add fried vegetables, thyme to minced meat. To stir thoroughly. 4. Wash the cauliflower, divide into inflorescences. Boil water in a large saucepan, salt a little. Dip the cabbage in boiling water, after 3 minutes. Transfer it with a slotted spoon to a bowl of cold water. Discard the cabbage in a colander, let drain all the water. 5. Preheat the oven to 180ºС. Grease the inside of a deep baking dish with butter. Lay out part of the minced meat with a layer of 3 cm. Gently “drown” cabbage inflorescences into it with two rows, placing them at an equal distance from each other. 6. Put the remaining minced meat on top. Smooth the surface, grease with oil. Put in the oven for 45 min. If the top of the casserole starts to burn, cover the pan with foil.