This Fully Loaded Smashed Cauliflower is an over-the-top cauliflower side dish. It’s filled with bacon, green onion and a a creamy cheese sauce much like a loaded baked potato minus the extra carbs. It’s certain to delight everyone at you family dinner table.

Easy Fully Loaded Smashed Cauliflower Recipe

Cauliflower is such a versatile and often under-used vegetable. Long gone are the days when it’s served steamed and devoid of any taste at all. At our house, I can’t think of enough ways to use it. We love it raw in salads, sautéed, roasted, curried, breaded, turned into a gratin as well as this fully casserole reminiscent of a twice baked potato.

How to Make the Best Fully Loaded Smashed Cauliflower Recipe

I can’t think of a single way that I don’t enjoy cauliflower. This smashed cauliflower is one of the dishes I refer to as “company worthy.” Easy enough for a weekday but special enough to serve guests.

Ingredients you’ll need to make homemade Loaded Smashed Cauliflower: Cauliflower florets (fresh or frozen and steamed), chive and onion cream cheese, sour cream, melted butter, one packet dry Ranch salad dressing mix, black pepper, grated Parmesan cheese, cooked bacon, green onions, shredded colby jack cheese and french fried onions.
Kitchen tools you’ll need: Vegetable steamer (if using fresh cauliflower), cheese grater, 2 quart baking dish, medium bowl, measuring cups and spoons, sharp knife and chopping board and a fork or potato masher to mash the cauliflower.
To save time you can prep some of the ingredients ahead of time. Grate the cheese, slice the green onions and cook the bacon then pop them into the fridge in baggies.
If you’d like to add a little heat, use pepper jack cheese and add one 4 ounce can of diced green chiles to the mix.
You may also choose to fully assemble the entire dish one day in advance and then chill in the refrigerator. When doing so, allow 15-20 minutes on the counter to warm a but and increase the baking time as needed. This will have it ready to bake when you’re ready to eat.
I like to sprinkle the top with crushed fried onions for added texture. If you want to keep this dish as low carb as possible you might use chicharrons, instead.
More Cauliflower recipes you may also like to try: Crispy Oven Roasted Panko Parmesan Cauliflower, cheesy Cauliflower Gratin and delicious Broccoli Cauliflower Salad.
Store baked Fully Loaded Smashed Cauliflower chilled in the refrigerator for up 3 days. Reheat in single servings in the microwave.

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