Goat Cheese Cauliflower Casserole - Creamy Vegetable Side Dish Recipe! (2024)

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Light and fluffyWhipped Cauliflower Casseroleis made extra creamy with goat cheese and thyme. It’s a rich but healthy vegetable side dish with a touch of elegance, meaning it’s the perfect low carb andgluten free casserole recipeto lighten up your holiday meals. But it’s easy enough to add to any weeknight dinner.

Table of Contents

• An Easy Cauliflower Casserole with Goat Cheese
• Ingredients
• How to Make the Recipe
• Storing Leftovers
• Serving Suggestions
• Recommended Items
• Get the Recipe

An Easy Cauliflower Casserole with Goat Cheese

I know mashed cauliflower has become a popular low carb substitute for mashed potatoes, particularly with the rise in people following keto diets. I’ll be honest, though, I’d rather not think of them as an alternative to taters. It’s really not the same.

But, that being said, I love cauliflower. And I might just love mashed cauliflower even more than mashed potatoes.

If you do it right, it is creamy and fluffy, and can be a blank slate for adding many different flavors. In this recipe, goat cheese adds that tangy flavor you’d expect, but it adds such a velvety texture too. And that little fresh, lemony note from the thyme is just perfect. It’s actually so simple you can make it any day of the week, but it really is worthy of a special meal.

Storing Leftovers

Wrap your leftover cauliflower casserole tightly with plastic wrap and you can refrigerate it for 2 to 3 days. It can then be unwrapped and reheated in the oven at 350°F right in the casserole dish. If you only have a small amount left, you can transfer it to an airtight storage container and microwave individual servings.

You can even make it in advance. Baked or unbaked the casserole can be refrigerated for 2 to 3 days or frozen for up to two months if wrapped well.

If frozen, thaw it in the refrigerator overnight. For an unbaked casserole, you’ll want to take it out of the refrigerator while the oven preheats, and you will have to add another 10-15 minutes onto the baking time to get it hot in the middle. If you are reheating it, make sure you give it enough time to get steaming hot.

Serving Suggestions

You can easily whip up this cauliflower casserole with your favorite weeknight meals like Honey Balsamic Steak Bites or Baked Blackened Chicken Breasts.

But there is just something extra-special about this dish that makes it perfect to pair with a Sunday bottom round roast or rotisserie chicken (made easy in the air fryer). And it is especially wonderful with your favorite holiday main dishes like glazed ham or prime rib.

Let’s round it out with some favorite side dishes:

• A roast beef supper is not complete without Gluten Free Yorkshire Pudding and Buttery Peas and Carrots.
• Your low carb holiday meal will be perfect with Bacon Green Beans and Spinach Feta Pinwheels.
• An elegant steak dinner goes nicely with Creamed Spinach and Roasted Asparagus with Hollandaise.
• A classic ham or turkey feast just calls for Scalloped Potatoes and Green Bean Casserole.