Taleggio Cheese Fritter
Serves
This dish features crispy Taleggio cheese cubes paired with homemade blueberry jelly. The cheese is coated in flour, egg, and breadcrumbs, then deep-fried to golden perfection, while the jelly combines sweet blueberries with gelatine for a unique condiment.
Method
1.
Remove the rind from Taleggio cheese and cut it into 2 cm cubes.
2.
Coat the cubes first in flour.
3.
Dip them in beaten egg.
4.
Finally, coat them in breadcrumbs.
5.
Repeat the coating process for extra crunch.
6.
Chill the coated cheese cubes thoroughly.
7.
Heat oil in a deep saucepan.
8.
Fry the chilled cheese cubes until the breadcrumbs turn golden brown.
9.
Blot excess oil with kitchen paper.
10.
Soak edible gelatine in cold water.
11.
Puree blueberries using a hand blender.
12.
Dissolve sugar in water in a small pan.
13.
Add the squeezed-out gelatine and remove from the heat.
14.
Stir in the blueberry puree and allow the jelly to cool.
15.
Serve the fried Taleggio cubes on skewers accompanied by the cooled blueberry jelly.
Ingredients
300g Taleggio
2 eggs
100g flour
150g fine breadcrumbs
1/2 litre peanut oil
200g fresh blueberries
20g sugar
50ml water
4g gelatine sheets
bamboo skewers
