First of all, get the roasties on. Peel the potatoes and cut them into suitable sizes.
Pre-boil them for 10 minutes until almost cooked, then drain and give them a good shake in the pan to rough them up.
Put the potatoes on an oven tray with low sides, drizzle about half a tsp of oil on each one and sprinkle over a little salt.
Put in the oven at 210° and set the timer for 35 minutes. You can use beef fat if you have any leftover from frying mince or roasting a joint. Or of course, goose fat, if you are lucky enough to have any, gives a fantastic flavour.
While the potatoes are cooking, start the yorkshires.
Yorkshire Puddings
Put all the ingredients into a jug and whisk until well combined, set aside.
In a 12 hole bun tin, put about half a tsp of oil in each hole. Or 10 anyway, as this mix will make 10 puddings. If you don’t have a bun tin, you can still do the pudding using one dish.
Cauliflower Cheese
Now do the cauliflower. Cut the part you are using into small pieces, include the stems and outer leaves and cook until soft in a microwave dish or saucepan.
To make the sauce, put a tbslp of oil in a saucepan and add a heaped tbslp of flour and sizzle for a bit. Turn the heat to medium
Measure out 300ml of milk and add a little, stir well until incorporated and repeat until all the milk is used up. Add in a tsp of grainy mustard and some salt and pepper if you like. Alternatively, put everything into a (preferably non-stick) saucepan, and whisk gently until thickened
Considering that this has no cheese in it, it is amazingly creamy. Mix the cauliflower and sauce together and put in an ovenproof dish and set aside.
Put Yorkshires in the oven
When the 35 minute timer goes off, put the Yorkshire pudding tins in the oven and wait ten minutes. Take out the tin, which should be smoking hot and carefully pour in some pudding mix into each of 10 holes. Put it back in the oven immediately and set the timer for 10 minutes.
The pudding mix needs to sizzle as it hits the hot fat and start cooking immediately, like in the picture.
When the timer goes off this time (after 10 minutes), put the cauliflower in the bottom of the oven and start the carrot and swede cooking.
Carrot & Swede Mash
Grate the carrot and swede and put in a saucepan with a little water.
Set the timer for another 10 minutes.
When the carrot and swede mixture is nice and soft, drain it and give it a little mash. Add a knob of butter or buttery type thing if you have any, salt and pepper if you like. Put the lid back on.
Serve
When the timer goes off, all is ready. Without opening the oven door if at all possible, check that the Yorkshire puddings are risen and golden. If not, leave for 3 or 4 more minutes
Get everything out of the oven, put the plates in the oven to warm for a moment, and dish it all up.
Notes
Priced at Asda.com August 2020We really liked this and were quite happy without the meat. If you try it, I’d love to know what you thought of it.