cauliflower, cheese, bacon bake | Great Food Forum

I started with theforkedspoon.com/cauliflower-bake/
Fried two slices of bacon.  Removed them but left grease in pan.  After they cooled I broke them up into pieces.
I cut a medium onion and medium red bell pepper into pieces 3/8 inch square and fried them in the bacon grease.  Add a little olive oil if there isn’t enough oil.  Let the onion brown.  Then add 4 cloves of garlic minced and fry another minute, stirring everything together.  Then turned off and let them sit.
In parallel, I cut a large cauliflower (2 pounds 5 ounces) into pieces about 1 inch square which weighed 1 pound 11 ounces.  Cook in instant pot for 1 minute and then turn off, instant release.
In parallel make béchamel – 3 T butter, 3 T whole wheat flower, cook until it bubbles for a minute, whisk briskly.  Slowly add 2 cups warmed 1% milk, continuing to whisk briskly.  You want it to boil a little.  Then turn off burner and add 12 ounces of cheddar cheese, whisk it until incorporated.  Then add 8 ounces sour cream and whisk.  Then add the onion/red pepper mixture and the bacon pieces.
Put the cauliflower pieces evenly into a 9×13 inch glass baking dish.  Pour the cheese mixture over them spreading evenly.  Sprinkly some more cheddar cheese over the top.  Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes.  Stab one of the cauliflower pieces to make sure it’s done.
This has some fat, but very little refined carbs so is pretty healthy.