Christmas Tapas

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Step by Step

RECIPE INGREDIENTS

For the Cheese and Pepper Skewers;

  • 16 small skewers
  • 16 small cubes Cavern Ruby
  • 16 small cubes Cavern Platinum
  • 16 small cubes Cavern Onyx
  • 8 chargrilled peppers cut into 32 squares
  • 16 pitted green olives
  • Basil leaves

For the Croquettes;

  • 4 spring onions
  • 4 tbsp mashed potato
  • 90g Grated Cavern Emerald
  • Tobasco Sauce (dash)
  • 100g Breadcrumbs
  • 2 tbsp flour
  • pinch of chilli powder
  • olive oil
  • egg beaten with some salt

Baguettes;

  • Parma ham
  • Dragon Mature Cheddar
  • Olives
  • cherry tomatoes
  • Olives

RECIPE DIRECTIONS

Cheese and Pepper Skewers;

  1. Thread the skewers with the 3 different cheeses interspersed with peppers, olives and basil
  2. Add your own additions such as roasted red onions
  3. Place the whisky cheddar on skewer last as quite crumbly and will reduce breakage if on end of skewer
  4. Can be prepared in advance of covered and kept chilled in fridge

Croquettes;

  1. Mix the mashed potato, spring onion and cheese before adding the tobasco sauce.
  2. Roll the mixture into balls of the same size and put to one side
  3. Prepare three plates one with flour the other with the egg and the last with the breadcrumbs
  4. roll the balls in the flour first then the egg and lastly the breadcrumbs
  5. Put to the side onto parchment paper so they don’t stick to each other
  6. when all the balls have been made, cover them with some oil and place in a hot oven at 180c/gas 6 for about 15 minutes, until golden brown, don’t worry if they start to come apart, they will still be delicious!
  7. Serve with some Chilli sauce.

Baguettes;

You can use any topping you fancy for the baguettes but her are some of our ideas;

  1.  Roll some Dragon Mature Cheddar in some parma ham, place onto a slice of baguettes and serve with some basil.
  2. cut up some cherry tomatoes, top with some grated Dragon cheddar and some olive.
  3. Enjoy!

Which Cheese should I buy for this?