Baked broccoli with cashew sauce

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Delicious broccoli casserole with carrots, mushrooms and chorizo. The sauce is cashew and coconut based.

Course Main

Cuisine Healthy

Keyword broccoli, carrots, cashew, mushrooms

Diet lactose free, Paleo

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 30

Total Time 45

Servings people

Calories 630

Author Simone

Equipment

Oven dish 20 x 25 cm

Ingredients

500 grams broccoli clean weight
200 grams carrots sliced
2 onions sliced
2 cloves garlic minced
250 grams mixed mushrooms sliced
200 grams chorizo or fresh sausage
2 sprigs fresh thyme

Sauce

150 grams raw cashew nuts
200 ml coconut cream maybe a little more
2 tbsp spicy mustard
1 tsp paprika powder
ground pepper
Salt

Metric - Us customary

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180˚C. (350˚F)
Soak the cashews the night before or - if you forgot - pour boiling water over them and let them soak for about 20-30 minutes.
Pre-cook the broccoli florets with the carrot slices (can be done together in a pan) for a few minutes. Drain and set aside.
In a large frying pan, brown the onions. Add the mushrooms and garlic and sautée until golden
Skin the fresh sausage and roll it into balls or just break it into pieces. If you're using a chorizo sausage, just chop into smaller pieces. Fry them with the onions and mushrooms until soft. Finely chop the fresh thyme and sprinkle over the mushroom mixture. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
Stir the vegetables through the mushroom mixture and transfer to a baking dish.
Drain the cashews and place in a blender. Add the coconut cream, salt, pepper, mustard and paprika and blend until smooth. If it is too thick, add a little more coconut cream.
Pour the sauce over the vegetables in the baking dish and spoon a little in. It doesn't have to be completely even.
Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

Notes

If you're using chorizo consider baking that in a frying pan first. The chorizo will release a lot of fat and I usually drain that before continuing with the rest of the dish.

In that case you do the chorizo first, drain and than add the onions, garlic and mushrooms.

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