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CHEESE FONDUE

CHEESE FONDUE

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Serves: 4

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  • Gluten Free
  • Nigella Recipe
  • Vegetarian

I don't suppose this is ever going to win plaudits from the World Health Organisation, but a cheese fondue is surely the stuff of dreams. On the plus side, health-wise, I love it best with radishes, chicory, spears of radicchio and carrots dipped in, but I don't know why I am trying to engage with that particular argument. The point is, it makes a fabulous supper: filling, gorgeous to eat and conducive to a good atmosphere and even better spirits.

Make a vat of this, and supply nothing other than fruit afterwards or, at most, a little palate-tickling sorbet.

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Ingredients

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for the fondue

  • 300 grams chopped or grated Gruyere cheese
  • 300 grams chopped Camembert
  • 300 ml white wine
  • 2 teaspoons cornflour
  • 3 tablespoons Kirsch
  • 1 clove garlic (peeled)
  • good grinding of pepper
  • good grating of nutmeg

to serve

  • carrots (cut into batons)
  • bunch of radishes (trimmed)
  • radicchio (cut into spears or skinny wedges)
  • chicory (cut into spears or skinny wedges)
  • sourdough (toasted and cut into cubes)
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Method

  1. Put the chopped or grated cheese into the fondue pot with the wine and heat until boiling on the hob, by which time the cheese should have melted.
  2. Turn the pot down to a simmer. Slake the cornflour with the Kirsch in a small bowl, and add to the fondue pot along with the garlic clove.
  3. Season with the pepper and nutmeg, stir well and place the fondue pot over a flame at the table.

Additional information - for gluten free avoid the ready grated packages of cheese as some of them use flour to keep the strips of grated cheese separate. For vegetarians make sure the cheese is a type made with vegetarian rennet.

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