Blue Cheese Crumble Recipe - Cooking Index
Blue Cheese Crumble Recipe - Cooking Index
This recipe has won recipe contests and is a most popular hors d'oeuvre. It can play different roles depending on your need. It is delicious on grilled steaks or hamburgers and as a topping for salads. Or serve it with sliced Granny Smith apples and your favorite cracker as the fruit-and-cheese course to enhance a meal. It will keep up to a week, covered, in the refrigerator.
Type: Cheese| 2 | Garlic cloves | |
| 1/2 cup | 31g / 1.1oz | Chopped red onion |
| 1/2 cup | 118ml | Parsley |
| 8 oz | 227g | Crumbled blue cheese or 8 oz block |
| 1/3 cup | 78ml | Olive oil |
| 2 tablespoons | 30ml | Red wine vinegar |
| 1 tablespoon | 15ml | Lemon juice |
| 1/2 teaspoon | 2.5ml | Freshly-ground black pepper - (to 1 tspn) |
Slice garlic cloves in half lengthwise, then slice each half lengthwise into little strips. Hold strips together and cut them into small pieces crosswise. Set aside.
Cut onion into little pieces in same way you cut up garlic cloves. Set aside. Remove parsley from stems and measure 1/2 cup of parsley.
Sprinkle crumbled cheese in an even layer into a shallow 8- or 9-inch square dish. (To grate solid block of blue cheese, use larger holes of grater so bits are about half size of a corn kernel.) Mix garlic and olive oil together and sprinkle over cheese.
Combine vinegar, lemon juice and pepper in small bowl. Stir in red onion and parsley and spread over cheese. Cover and refrigerate at least 1 hour before using.
This recipe yields about 2 cups.
Each 1/4 cup: 186 calories; 398 mg sodium; 21 mg cholesterol; 17 grams fat; 2 grams carbohydrates; 6 grams protein; 0.12 gram fiber.
Source:
The Los Angeles Times, 05-24-2000
Average rating:
7.5 (2 votes)
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