Grilled Halloumi Cheese

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Gorgonzola Stuffed Mushrooms - Quick and Easy

Cheese day? OK.
Today I made cheese stuffed mushrooms. Very easy to make and delicious.
Serve it with wilted spinach and a slice of toasted protein bread.

Ingredients:
medium size button mushrooms
Gorgonzola cheese
salt

black pepper

Directions:

Remove stems from mushrooms.

Fill each mushroom cap with Gorgonzola cheese and place them on a lightly sprayed shallow baking pan.

Season with salt and black pepper.

Bake at 375 degrees for about 15-20 minutes, just until slightly browned on top.

Serve hot.

Tags: Gorgonzola stuffed mushrooms, Gorgonzola stuffed mushroom recipe, Gorgonzola cheese stuffed mushrooms, cheese stuffed mushrooms recipe

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Hungarian Cheese Spread - low fat version

Ingredients:

1/2 pound Liptauer or farmers cheese at room temperature

1/2 cup fat free cottage cheese

1 teaspoon sweet Hungarian paprika

1/2 teaspoon pounded caraway seeds

1 small grated onion or 3 green onions, finely chopped

1/2 teaspoon mustard

Salt

Black pepper

Serve with:

peppers

capers

toasted protein bread

Makes about 2 cups 

Directions:

Put cheese into a medium bowl. With an electric mixer beat in cottage cheese (original recipe is with 1 stick of unsalted butter). Add remaining ingredients, combining thoroughly. Adjust seasonings. Refrigerate at least 2 hours for flavors to marry. Remove from refrigerator 15 minutes before serving.
Serve on bread, or cut the ends of pepper, remove seeds and stuff pepper with the cheese mixture. Refrigerate for 2-3 hours and slice with a sharp knife. Sprinkle with capers or caraway seeds.

Note:

If you want to turn this into a veggie dip, add more cottage cheese.

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Feta Cheese Dill Truffles

Ingredients:

4 oz cream cheese, softened

4 oz feta cheese, crumbled

Cottage cheese or greek yogurt (optional)

2  teaspoons green onion, chopped

1/4  teaspoon  black pepper

1/2  cup  chopped fresh dill

tomatoes

olives

cucumbers

or other fresh vegetables

Directions:
In a medium bowl thoroughly blend feta cheese, cream cheese, green onion, black pepper and fresh dill with an electric mixer. If the feta is very dry and the mixture doesn't hold together well, add some greek yogurt or cottage cheese. Taste and adjust seasoning.
Cover, and refrigerate at least 4 hours.
With wet hands form little balls or use a cookie baller to make the perfect round shape. Roll each ball in chopped dill.
Serve with crackers, olives, tomatoes or cucumber slices.

Tags: Feta cheese appetizer recipe, feta cheese truffles, feta and dill recipes, feta cheese balls

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Cheese wrapped in Prosciutto on a bed of Spinach

Cheese cut into 4 by 1/2 inch sticks
Prosciutto thinly sliced
Spinach
Balsamic vinaigrette


Wrap cheese sticks with Prosciutto. Lay rolls in a non-stick pan and sear them on high heat turning often, until Prosciutto is crisp and cheese is soft.
Serve on baby spinach with a few drops of balsamic vinaigrette.

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Insalata Caprese - Caprese Salad

Ingredients:
ripe tomatoes, sliced 1/4 inch thick

fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced 1/4 inch thick

fresh basil leaves

extra virgin olive oil

balsamic dressing (optional)

chopped garlic

fine sea salt to taste

freshly ground black pepper to taste

Directions:

On a large plate, alternate and overlap the tomato slices, mozzarella cheese slices, and basil leaves. I add a lot of balsamic dressing with a splash of olive oil and a few cloves of fresh chopped garlic. Season with sea salt and pepper.

I know, I know ... I shoudn't use oil....

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