California Farm Tapas: Baked Goat Cheese

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Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 people, 2 pounds
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

Hobby Horseman

California Farm Tapas: Baked Goat Cheese

A gallon of rich full goat milk makes up to 2 pounds of goat cheese. I make 2 cheese wheels, bake them fresh for dessert. The baked goat cheese turns into delicious snacks when carmelized with honey, nuts, sunflower seeds and carmelized apple pieces.

Ingredient

Food ration :

2 people, 2 pounds

Cooking time :

1 day ferment, 1 hour cure, 1 hour bake

1 gallon

goat milk, not ultra pasteurized. If ultra pasteurized, add cup of goat yoghurt

1 Tbs

saved goat cheese

meyer lemon

2 Tsp

seasalt

1/3 cup

water with 1/2 Tsp seasalt

Apple, thick slices baked till carmelized, then cooled and diced

1 Tbs

sugar

1 Tbs

olive oil

1 Tbs

honey

1 Tbs

crushed nuts

1 Tbs

sunflower seeds

1 Tsp

fennel seeds

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Make fresh goat cheese: warm goat milk to 105 F degrees, stir in 2 Tbs goat cheese to activate cheese bacteria, add lemon juice, let ferment overnight. Pour curds in dish towel in collarder, drain, twist towel to press liquid wey out. Save wey.

* Step 2

Press till cheese is solid, remove kitchen towel, form two cheese wheels. Save one Tbs fresh cheese to make future goat cheese. Brine wheels in 1/3 cup of salt water in dish. Dry.

* Step 3

Slice fresh goat cheese wheel horizontally. Bake four slices of apple, dice, press into top and bottom of each cheese wheel together with crushed nuts, sunflowerseeds, fennel. Sprinkle with sugar, bake a carmellized crust over the cheese in some olive oil in warm skillet. Cool in fridge till hard, cut in 8 wedges, drizzle honey over. Serve.