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How to bake cheese?

There are many recipes for dishes with cheese: snacks, salads, sandwiches. However, not everyone knows that cheese can be cooked as an independent dish. Below we will consider this topic in more detail.

We will give an example of specific recipes: cheese with white mold in foil, cheese sticks in breading and cheese casserole.

How to bake cheese: highlights

There are many kinds of cheeses: hard, soft and melted, fat and defatted, cheese with mold, smoked, pickled. However, any of them is a very delicate product. Incorrect baking can lead to the fact that the cheese will not have a juicy ruddy crust, but a dry burnt crust resembling wood. So, first of all, let's talk about the basic rules:

  1. To main courses, especially requiring long baking (for example, meat), the cheese is added closer to the end of cooking, if this dish is prepared without a lid.
  2. As a rule, the cheese is baked in breadcrumbs, its own crust (Camembert, Germelin) or any other "wrapper", just in order to preserve its delicate taste.
  3. The temperature of baking cheese is usually not more than 200 degrees (more often 180).
  4. There is baked cheese better hot. Some dishes allow the use in a cold form, but they do not need to warm up such dishes, they lose much in taste.

About the use of cheese in the main dishes a lot of information. Interesting options are given in the article Salmon baked with cheese in Norwegian.

Also, cheese is perfectly combined with potatoes. Such a recipe is described in the article How to bake potatoes in the oven.

Deliciously bake cheese: recipes

Cheese with white mold in foil

  • For this recipe perfectly suited wholeA small head of cheese with a crust of white mold. It can be hermelin, camembert and other fatty soft varieties of cheese with white mold. The most important thing here is the integrity of the cheese head.
  • spices: a mixture of peppers, curry, dry ground garlic (optional);
  • tomato paste or ketchup - as an option;
  • vegetable oil;
  • foil.

Cooking method:

  1. Turn the oven on 180 degrees.
  2. Cheese is lightly coated with vegetable oil and ketchup, so that the spices get better.
  3. Sprinkle the cheese with spices.
  4. The foil is also lightly oiled.
  5. Well wrap the head of cheese and send it to a hot oven.

Baking time can vary from 20 to 40 minutes. As a rule, the cheese becomes soft, when it is cut, it will flow out. An excellent snack for baked cheese will be, for example, French fries.

Cheese sticks in double breading

We will need:

  • cheese of hard varieties;
  • vegetable oil;
  • flour;
  • egg;
  • Italian herbs;
  • a little bit of milk.

Cooking method:

  1. Preheat the oven (180).
  2. We cut cheese with bars (the size of a finger).
  3. Whisk egg with milk.
  4. Each piece of cheese is slightly moistened in milk and rolled in Italian herbs.
  5. Then we lay in flour, we dip in an egg with milk, again in flour, in an egg.
  6. Carefully put the cheese sticks in a greased form. If desired, the bottom and edges of the form can first be rubbed with garlic, and then oiled.

Bake the cheese for 20-30 minutes (orient on your oven).

Cheese casserole

Products for casserole:

  • cheese is hard (Russian, Kostroma or any other, not necessarily expensive);
  • tomatoes;
  • garlic;
  • eggs;
  • ham;
  • onion;
  • sour cream;
  • dried herbs;
  • fresh fennel;
  • vegetable oil.

Cooking method:

The temperature regime is 160-180 degrees.

Preparation of ingredients for casserole.

  1. Tomatoes cut with rings. We put it on a baking tray, smeared with oil, sprinkle with crushed garlic and herbs. We send in the oven for 15 minutes.
  2. Onions cut into rings and fry in oil until golden.
  3. Cut the cheese into cubes about 1 * 1 cm.
  4. The ham is at the discretion: you can cut it large, you can finely, you can grate it.
  5. The egg is mixed with sour cream and crumbled dill.
  6. Baked tomatoes kneaded with a fork, but not all, but approximately one-third.
  7. Now, everything is mixed in a baking dish: egg mass + cheese + ham + onion.
  8. We send the bake for about 40 minutes (at 180 degrees). The casserole should harden.

The dish is good because it can be used hot and cold.

These are just a few recipes, which we hope you will like. You can also invent your own dish, as baking cheese is not difficult, you just need to stick to our advice and include imagination.

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