Romanesco in blue cheese sauce

I bought a mild Bavarian blue cheese for a pasta dish, that I did not cook. Now the cheese had his time in the fridge and needed to go.

I thought about a broccoli cheese dish, but at the grocery store fresh broccoli was super expensive. In an other basket was the romanesco and it was a lot cheeper.

Since I am watching Dubai 24 hrs today since 10AM, I did not want to spend a lot of time at the stove. I decided to cook in my Thermomix instead.

Recipe:

1 medium romanesco

5 smaller potatoes

1 liter veg stock from paste

125 g Bavaria Blue mild blue cheese

1 tbsp cream cheese

2 tbsp flour

1 tsp umami crunch seasoning

50 g leftover precooked lean beef mince

25 g deep fried onions

Get the leaves off the romanesco and soak it in cold water for 30 min. Cut it through the middle to get it in the steamer basket of the Thermomix.

Peel the potatoes and cut them in half. Fill the veg stock in the Thermomix first, hang the potatoes in the basket in and close the lid.

Put the steamer on top, close it and set it on 25 minutes, Varoma, speed 1

Set the steamer aside and take the basket with the potatoes out (put them with the romanesco to keep warm).

Pour 500 ml stock in a measuring cup and drain the other. Pour the 500 ml back, add cut up cheese, cream cheese, flour, seasoning. Close the lid and pluck the center. Mix at speed 5 for 1 min. Heat up at 90 C, 2,5 min, speed 2.

The ground beef goes in the microwave to reheat. Then bring it all together and enjoy.