Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, cheese fondue. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bread, vegetable, and ham pieces dipped in melted cheese sauce with Jarlsberg, Emmenthaler, and Gruyere cheeses. Fondue is a fun and informal way to gather friends and family together. Learn how to make an authentic Swiss Cheese Fondue with my family's recipe, from scratch!
Cheese fondue is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Cheese fondue is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook cheese fondue using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Cheese fondue:
- Get Steaming of vegetables:
- Take cauliflower, florets cut into smaller pieces
- Get mushrooms, sliced
- Get Cheese fondue dip:
- Prepare garlic, crushed
- Prepare unsalted butter, room temperature
- Get small bottle of white wine (370ml)
- Get Extra mature Gouda, grated
- Prepare Gruyere cheese, grated
- Make ready Emmental cheese, sliced
- Make ready nutmeg (add more or less)
- Make ready ground white pepper (add more or less)
- Make ready cornflour (to thicken cheese mixture)
- Take Cherry Kirsch (optional)
- Make ready water (added to cornflour)
- Prepare Serve fondue with:
- Get Steamed vegetables
- Make ready Continental meat selection
- Make ready Cornichons
- Prepare white bread slices, sliced into chunks (or any bread of preference)
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Steps to make Cheese fondue:
- For the cauliflower, cut the stems in order to separate large florets. Now cut the large florets into smaller pieces. Slice off the stem ends of the mushroom. Then slice mushrooms. Place vegetables in a steaming basket. On medium heat, steam for 5-6 minutes, once cooked turn off the heat.
- Gather all of the Emmental cheese and slice in half, then horizontal into four pieces. Grate the mature Gouda and gruyere cheese and transfer all of the cheese to a bowl, set aside.
- Crush the garlic cloves and place in a pot with butter. On medium heat, let the butter melt completely.
- Add the bottle of wine to the pot with the melted butter and garlic. Turn the heat up to high to cook out some of the wine for 2-3 minutes. Stir occasionally. Add the cheese little by little into the pot. Stir frequently to incorporate cheese. Let the cheese completely dissolve.
- Once cheese has melted, add nutmeg and white pepper. Stir the cheese mixture. In a small bowl add corn flour and water (this thickens the cheese mixture). Add a dash of Cherry Kirsch (optional, I didn't add this as I don't like the taste). Let the cheese fondue cook for a few minutes until it begins to thicken. Turn down the heat to medium low.
- In the meantime place a few slices of the Continental meat selection onto a chopping board and place a few pieces of cornichons on a side plate.
- Slice the bread into thick chunks, (bread can be heated up slightly in oven, optional) and transfer to a large plate. Remove the steamed vegetables from the steamer and transfer to a plate. Lastly, transfer the cheese fondue mixture from the pot into a fondue pot. Place over a stand and burner.
- Enjoy cheese fondue with bread dipped into the melted cheese, along with the steamed vegetables, cut meats and cornichons!
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