CHILLI CHEESE PATE
CHILLI CHEESE PATE
Chilli Cheese Pate
Serve: 2
Ingredients:
50 gram Cheddar cheese – grated
85 gram Cream cheese
35 gram Soft blue cheese
1 (small) Birds Eye chilli
1/2 Celery stalk – peeled
1/2 Braeburn apple – peeled and cut
2 tablespoon Cider (good qualiy)
1 pinch Ground black pepper
1 pinch Chives – finely chopped
Method
-Pre-heat the oven to 180 Celsius.
-Heat the celery, apple, birds eye chilli and cider in a milk pan until the ingredients are softened. This is your wet mixture.
-Put the blue cheese, soft cheese, cheddar cheese, chives and the wet mixture in the blender. Blend until all the ingredients turn to a thick yet smooth liquid.
-Add a pinch of ground black pepper.
-Transfer the cheese mixture into two ramekins.
-Bake for approx 15-20 minutes.
-Dip it with trimmed vegetables ie. carrot, celery, tomatoes, radish. It is also good with warm soda bread.
Tip:
– Keep an eye on the milk pan while cooking the wet mixture as it can easily burn.
-This wonderful recipe based on Marianne Kelly from the amazing Heritage Cheese Company.
-Click for Northern Thai Style Dip AKA ‘Nam-Prick_Oong’ for an easy Thai style chili dip.
