Cheese is a part of many dishes, but there is one dish in which it is a key ingredient. This cheese fondue, which is loved by all fans of cheeses. Preparation of cheese fondue does not take much time and it makes an excellent dinner, in addition to which you only need crisp bread and a glass of wine.
The main issue in preparing fondue is the choice of cheese. There are no clear rules on what type of cheese is needed for fondue, most importantly - it must be hard. If you are ready to experiment, we will tell you how to prepare a cheese fondue.
Classical cheese fondue
Ingredients:
- Hard cheese - 400-500 g (minimum three grades);
- garlic - 3 cloves;
- dry white wine - 150-200 g;
- black pepper, nutmeg;
- starch - 1 tbsp. a spoon.
Preparation
Take the pan in which you will prepare fondue, and grate it inside a slice of garlic. Leave the garlic on the bottom. Then pour the wine into the pan, bring to a boil and reduce the heat. Whole cheese, add to warmed wine and warm, stirring constantly, until the cheese completely dissolves.
After that, add to the starch starch, which can be diluted in brandy. Continue to stir intensely and cook for another 5 minutes to make the sauce become homogeneous and rather thick.
At the end, squeeze garlic into it, add nutmeg and pepper. Turn off the fire, move the bowl of fondue on the heating pad and put it in the center of the table. Slice fresh bread in small portions, use a fork to dip them into the fondue and enjoy.
Cheese fondue without wine - recipe
If you do not like alcohol or you can not, we will tell you how to make a cheese fondue without wine.
Ingredients:
- cheese hard - 300 g;
- milk - 150 ml;
- egg yolks - 2 pieces;
- butter - 50 g;
- salt, black pepper to taste.
Preparation
Cheese cut into small cubes and place in milk for several hours. Then melt everything in a water bath, adding about half of the butter. Melt, stirring until the mass becomes homogeneous and pulling. After that, enter the egg yolks into it, not forgetting to constantly interfere. Note that the mass should not boil, otherwise the yolks will curdle.
At the end, add the remaining oil, salt and pepper, and immediately place the fondue on the table above the candle or on the heating pad. Eat cheese fondue with white or black bread.
A simple recipe for cheese fondue
If you decide to make a cheese fondue at home, but you do not have all the ingredients or do not have enough good hard cheese, we'll share a way to make a simple cheese fondue.
Ingredients:
- cheese - 300-400 g;
- dry white wine - half-glass;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves.
Preparation
Pour the saucepan with a slice of garlic, and leave it on the bottom. Then grind the cheese there, and you can take 2/3 of the usual cheese (for example, "Russian"), the main thing is that it melts well, and a little hard flavored cheese for taste. When the cheese melts, pour the wine into it, warm it up a little more so that it evaporates, and remove the fondue from the fire. Put it in the center of the table for heating and eat with croutons.
Cheese fondue with greens
If you like a combination of cheese and greens, then this recipe you will like.
Ingredients:
- cheese hard - 400 g;
- wine white dry - 150 ml;
- calvados - 50 ml;
- Nutmeg, mint, rosemary and thyme.
Preparation
Wine is poured into a saucepan and heated. Cheese grate and add to the wine. Stir constantly and cook until the cheese is completely melted. Then add calvados, nutmeg and greens. In the ready fondue we muffle slices of bread, or at desire, slices of meat smoked products.