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Recipe : ** Melon with fresh goat cheese and pistachios

Melon with fresh goat cheese and pistachios
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Course:
Appetizer

Practical information

  • Prep time
    30 min
  • Cooking
    10 min
  • Ready in
    40 min
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Price
    Very friendly budget
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Piment d’Espelette is a type of spicy dried pepper, powder form.
 

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Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 25 unsalted pistachios
  • 1 teaspoon piment d’espelette
  • 3 scallions
  • 8 twigs of chives
  • white pepper
  • fleur de sel
  • 1 melon (cantaloupe)
  • 2 tablespoons fine sugar
  • 200 g goat cheese, type petit billy (for 12 small balls)
  • 100 ml red balsamic vinegar

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    For the balsamic vinegar caramel
  • 2
    Mix together the vinegar, the sugar and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat and let reduce until the consistency is like a thicker syrup (can take up to 10 mns and more). Keep aside (be careful though that while cooling down, it gets quickly firmer, so plan accordingly with the rest of the preparation).
  • 3
    For the goat cheese bowls and the melon
  • 4
    Chop the chives and scallions thinly. Mix them with the cheese, using a fork. Season with pepper. Shape small balls using the palm of your hand.
  • 5
    Chop the pistachios coarsely. Mix them with the piment d'espelette. Roll the balls of cheese in this preparation and keep in the fridge.
  • 6
    Cut the melon in thin slices that you divide between the 4 plates. Decorate with the goat cheese balls and the caramelized balsamic vinegar (Do not put too much as the flavor is strong). Sprinkle with fleur de sel. (Optional)
  • Ready !



 

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