Baked cheese with pesto twists
An easy to make stunning starter or lovely snack for a movie night.
Servings
2
In progress
Ingredients
For the baked cheese and topping
200g -250g round shaped mould cheese e.g. Camenbert, Goat cheese (at least 4 cm thick)
4 garlic cloves (in 2mm slices)
2 twigs rosemary (cut in 2 cm sections)
10 red currant berries
5 blue berries
1 Tbsp honey
For the pesto twists
250g pizza dough
100g Pesto
Salt, Pepper, grated cheese
Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C fan.
Remove any wrapping of the cheese that might burn in the oven and put it in a little nest of baking paper or just simply place it in a small bowl, that is oven proof. Actually, anything that holds the cheese in shape and is oven proof will work.
Cut along and across the top of the cheese, roughly half a centimeter deep. We want to use these cuts later to fold the 4 corners of the cheese open to dip inside.
Place the cheese in the oven, so that the top surface gets baked a little. That makes it much easier to open it up.
After ~5 minutes take it out again and fold the corners out, so that the inner creamier cheese is visible.
Pierce the cheese with the garlic slices and the small rosemary twigs. Top the cheese with the berries and sprinkle some honey over.
Place the cheese back in the oven for another 15 minutes.
For the pesto twists
Roll the dough on a flavoured surface roughly 7 mm thick and put on baking paper.
Distribute the pesto on the dough.
Cut the dough into ~3cm stripes.
Use your hands to twist all the stripes.
Top all the twists with some flaky salt, pepper and some leftover grated cheese.
Bake in the oven for ~15 minutes at 200°C fan.
Good to know
For next time: The garlic and the berries were absolutely delicious. We need to find a way to bake some berries and garlic additionally on the side in the oven, so that you can constantly add more garlic and berries while you snack.
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