Bariatric recipe

Potato and cauliflower mash with mushroom cream sauce

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A bowl of mash topped with mushroom sauce, a plate of ricotta and raw cauliflower beside Proti-Thin soup and potato boxes
  • Servings2about ¾ cup (180 ml) each
  • Time15 min
  • Calories 125
  • Protein 17.5 g
  • Fat 2.5 g
  • Carbs 9 g

Calories and macros are per serving.

Ingredients

2 servings: about ¾ cup (180 ml) each

Directions

How to make it, step by step

  1. Steam or boil the cauliflower over medium-high heat until a fork slides through easily, about 8 minutes.

  2. Drain.Then mash or blend the cauliflower with 15 ml (1 tablespoon) of the hot water until smooth.

  3. Pour 60 ml (1/4 cup) of the hot water into a small bowl, add the mashed potato packet and stir gently until smooth, about 30 seconds.

  4. Fold the cauliflower purée into the potato mash until it is one even, smooth mash.

  5. In a second small bowl, stir the soup packet into the remaining 90 ml hot water until it forms a thick sauce, about 1 minute.Then stir in the ricotta until smooth.

  6. Divide the mash between the two serving bowls, make a small well in each, and spoon the mushroom sauce over the top.Serve warm.

Equipment

  • A small pot
  • A blender or potato masher
  • Two small bowls
  • Two serving bowls

Step-by-step photos

See each step before you start

  1. Step 1: lifting a cauliflower floret with a fork from a steaming pot on a gas stove

    Cook the cauliflower

  2. Step 2: lifting the pot of cooked cauliflower off the burner, a colander waiting on the counter

    Take it off the heat

  3. Step 2: mashing cooked cauliflower in a steel bowl with a potato masher, a jug of hot water nearby

    Mash the cauliflower

  4. Step 3: stirring the mashed potato mix into hot water in a white bowl, an empty packet on the counter

    Stir up the potato mix

  5. Step 4: folding the cauliflower into the potato mash with a spatula until smooth

    Fold the two together

  6. Step 5: stirring ricotta into a small bowl of thick mushroom sauce

    Make the mushroom sauce

  7. Step 6: spooning mushroom sauce over two bowls of smooth mash

    Spoon on the sauce

How it fits your plan

Texture and plan fit

Pureed — the mash and the sauce are both fully smooth, with no lumps. Both mixes are tagged for bariatric pureed, soft and regular stages.

Protocol phases
  • Bariatric Stage 3 Pureed, Stage 4 Soft, Stage 5 Regular
  • Keto Liberal Low-Carb
  • General Weight Loss Kickstart, Active, Transition, Maintenance
  • GLP-1
Nutrition per serving
125 kcal · 17.5 g protein · 2.5 g fat · 9 g carbs · 1.5 g fiber · 7.5 g net carbs
What makes it different
two mixes become one plate — the potato mix stretched with real cauliflower into a lighter mash, and the soup thickened into a sauce instead of a bowl of soup on its own.
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