This Vegetable Saves Cheese Sauce From Being Too Heavy

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This Vegetable Saves Cheese Sauce From Being Too Heavy By Mathieson Nishimura Sept. 2, 2025 8:20 pm EST

Cheese sauce: you want to pour it on just about everything. Pasta, tortilla chips, burritos — the world is your oyster. But sometimes, cheese sauce can really weigh down the food you add it to. While there's nothing wrong with something robust and rich, what about those days when you're craving something cheesy but don't want it to sit in your stomach like a lead balloon? Well, here's where one veggie comes in. It's the very same vegetable that doesn't get nearly enough love in egg salad , the veggie that people have been turning into everything from rice to pizza crust: it's cauliflower.

Before you get up in arms over yet another way of adding cauliflower to