Easy Cheese Sauce for Vegetables
Give this easy cheese sauce a try for your vegetables. Dress up your vegetables with this easy homemade cheese sauce.
Ingredients
For the Cheese Sauce:
- ½ cup cheddar cheese shredded
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp oregano
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and pepper to taste
For the Roasted Vegetables:
- 4 cloves garlic minced
- 1 onion peeled and chopped
- 1 large sweet potato chopped into bite sized pieces
- 2 carrots peeled and chopped into ½” pieces
- 1 zucchini halved and sliced into ½” thick half moons
- ½ head broccoli florets roughly chopped
- 1 red bell pepper chopped into bite sized pieces
- 1 cup cherry tomatoes
- 2 cups button white mushrooms cleaned and sliced
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400°F.
- Heat olive oil in a non-stick pan over medium-high heat. Add onion and sauté for 2-3 minutes.
- Add garlic and mushroom. Sauté until onion is translucent and mushrooms are cooked, 5-6 minutes. Set aside.
- Meanwhile, bring a pot of water to a boil.
- Add the carrots, broccoli, and sweet potatoes to the boiling water and cook for 10 minutes. (They don’t need to be totally cooked, as the cooking will finish in the oven.)
- For the sauce, simply place all the ingredients into a saucepan stirring continuously until you get a thick-cheesy sauce.
- Place all the vegetables, including the red pepper and cherry tomatoes, onto a baking sheet. Drizzle with additional olive oil. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Roast vegetables in the oven for 10-15 minutes, until the red pepper is tender.
- Then pour the cheesy sauce over the vegetables, and cook for 5 more minutes, or until all the veggies are fork-tender.
Nutrition
Calories: 541kcalCarbohydrates: 56gProtein: 20gFat: 29gSaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 42mgSodium: 361mgPotassium: 1762mgFiber: 11gSugar: 25gVitamin A: 29654IUVitamin C: 127mgCalcium: 470mgIron: 4mg
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