Cooking: Baked Cheese Broccoli And Hash Brown Casserole / Plate

Amazingly green broccoli
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Hello! It's Cooking Friday!!!!

Question: What does this amazingly green broccoli reminds you of? For me, it's definitely the world famous movie -- Hayao Miyazaki's Laputa: Castle In The Sky (天空の城ラピュタ).

Laputa: Castle In The Sky
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The difference is, we can actually eat the broccoli. What can we do with it? The easiest is Baked Cheese Broccoli And Hash Brown Casserole / Plate.

You'll need:

1. A Casserole / plate
2. Broccoli
3. Potatoes / Hash browns
4. White pasta sauce
5. Mozzarella Cheese

Hash Brown from IKEA
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Since I am using hash brown, I will need to first fry them until they are semi-cooked / golden brown. I got some from IKEA for a try but I didn't like it afterwards. Next time I will return to those which actually looks like hash browns.

Frying Hash Brown
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If you are using potatoes, simply boil them, skin them and chop them into small pieces.

Mushroom & Herb Pasta Sauce
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Place the hash browns / potatoes on the plate / casserole, then get your white sauce ready. I use this Dolmio Mushroom & Herb Pasta Sauce which is not so salty.

Nicely laid out
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Place the broccoli nicely, break then into smaller pieces if necessary.

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Pour lots of pasta sauce onto the dish.

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Looking good?

President's Mozzarella Cheese
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I choose President's Mozzarella because it is the cheapest I can find.

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Put the desired amount of mozzarella cheese on it for the meltiness.

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For slightly better taste, I added a piece of cheddar.

In the oven
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Chuck the whole thing into the oven.

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Initially, I set the temperature to 250°C for about 15 minutes, but if you think the cheese hasn't melted, then add a little time accordingly.

Final product
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WA LA!!! Where's your plate?

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Vocabulary:
casserole -- (n)  from the French word for "saucepan", is a large, deep dish used both in the oven and as a serving vessel. The word casserole is also used for the food cooked and served in such a vessel, with the cookware itself called a casserole dish or casserole pan. In British English, this type of dish is frequently also called a bake, coinciding with the cooking technique used to cook casseroles.
meltiness -- (n) [U] from melty -- (adj) melting
chuck -- (vb)[T often + adv/prep] informal to throw something carelessly:


Resources:
Castle In The Sky @ Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_in_the_Sky

Cooking @ Locky's English Playground
http://lockyep.blogspot.hk/search/label/Cooking/?max-results=6

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casserole
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/melty
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/chuck_1?q=chuck