Choose cheese according to whether it should melt, brown, crumble or be served cold. These recipes pair different varieties with pasta, vegetables, potatoes, breads and fresh salads.
Recipes
Pre-cooked potatoes, mushrooms, peppers, corn and cucumbers are placed in raclette pans and baked under cheese. Drain the moist ingredients well and do not fill the pans too high to allow the cheese to brown.
Mountain cheese and Emmentaler are melted in hot white wine and bound with garlic and stirred starch. Stir in cheese at medium heat and do not boil, otherwise the fat can separate from the mass.
Puff pastry is coated with pesto, parmesan and dried tomatoes, rolled up, cooled and baked in slices crispy. A short cooling time stabilizes the roll; a sharp knife prevents the snails from being pressed together when cutting.
Mürbeig is pressed in small forms and baked with sweated leek, egg-sahn cast and Gouda. Let leeks evaporate before filling and do not overfill the moulds, so that the bottom and casts cook cleanly.
A spekulatius floor is baked with a cream cheese and quark filling and finished with cinnamon after complete cooling. Stir filling only smoothly and let the cake cool slowly so that the surface and consistency remain even.
Blanched Brussels sprouts are put into shape with cream, milk and nutmeg, and burgundy under mountain cheese and brittle golden brown. Cook Brussels sprouts just a little bit and leave them to steam dry well, so that they do not become soft in the oven and the sauce does not become thin.
Pre-cooked potatoes, peppers, mushrooms and corn are distributed in prunes and baked under raclette cheese. Cut the vegetables into small and drain well so that the cheese browns instead of swimming in liquid.
Gingerbread Tiramisu is a festive dessert without baking with gingerbread, mascarpone quark cream, coffee, cocoa, cinnamon and orange. It can be prepared very well.
Field salad with pomegranate is a festive winter salad without stove. Field salad, pomegranate seeds, orange, walnuts, feta and honey-senf dressing ensure freshness on the Christmas table.
A cookie bottom is baked with cream cheese quark mass and then decorated with melted chocolate as a spider web. Ingredients for the filling should have room temperature and only be stirred briefly so that the cake does not tear strongly.
Cheese strips are placed as bristles around salt sticks, bound with chives and fixed with a small amount of cream cheese. Do not cut cheese too thin and use the salt sticks only shortly before serving, so that they remain crispy.
Pumpkin cubes are toasted, risotto rice is then cooked creamy with onion and hot broth and is completed with sage, butter and parmesan. Add broth only in portions and crush a portion of the pumpkin so that the risotto binds without becoming pulpy.
Tortilla chips are covered with beans, corn, jalapeños and cheddar and bake only until the cheese is melted. Spread chips in a wide, not too high layer and serve salsa and stew separately so that they remain crispy.
Spicy beef patties are strongly fried and built with cheddar, salad, tomato, cucumber and burgers sauce in the bun. Turn patties only once and melt the cheese on the hot meat; attach the monster decoration only when assembled.
Roasted pumpkin meat, spinach, ricotta, tomato sauce and lasagne plates are layered and baked under mozzarella. Do not leave the pumpkin filling too moist and leave the lasagne to rest before cutting in order to create stable pieces.
Pizza dough is thinly covered with tomato sauce and mozzarella, decorated with peppers and olives as Halloween motifs and very hot baked. Spread the coating sparingly and preheat the sheet completely so that the small pizzas become crisp despite decoration.
Orange pepper is cut out as a face and baked with a pre-cooke mixture of rice, beans, corn, tomatoes and cheese. Rice and filling must be pre-cooked, because the peppers in the oven should only become soft and retain colour.
Field salad is served with pear clefts, roasted walnuts, blue cheese and an apple vinegar-honey vinaigrette. Field salad must be dry; pear and dressing will only be added shortly before the meal, so that the leaves do not collapse.
Marons are roasted in sage butter and mixed creamy with pasta, parmesan, lemon abrass and reserved pasta water. Leave the butter to be nutty and add the pasta water in proportion so that no heavy or watery sauce is produced.
Potato slices and blanched Brussels sprouts are layered with a nutmeg-sahne cast and baked under Gouda. Cut potatoes thinly and cook Brussels sprouts so that both are soft at the same time before the cheese becomes too dark.
Hokkaido cubes are softly roasted, gnocchi is browned separately and both are combined with sage butter, garlic and parmesan. Roast pumpkin and gnocchi in proportion so that both colour and do not become soft in leaking liquid.
Thin beetroot slices are laid out with rucola, goat cheese and walnuts and drizzled with balsamic honey dressing. Drain well beetroot and add the goat cheese only when dressing, so that the carpaccio remains clearly layered.
Hokkaido clefts and red onion are roasted with oil and thyme and then finished with feta, walnuts and little honey. Add honey and feta only towards the end, so that nuts and cheese do not burn and the pumpkin still tans vigorously.
Mushrooms are roasted separately, while risotto rice with onion, white wine and hot broth gradually cook creamy. The mushrooms come back in the rice only at the end so that they remain browned; Parmesan is stirred away from the heat.
Zucchini and paprika are grilled, Halloumi gets strong barbecue strips and everything is layered with tomato and lemon yoghurt in the bun. Halloumi only grill shortly before assembly, because it becomes fast when cooling down.