Grilled Halloumi Cheese
4 servings
10 minutes
Recipe from the Tver restaurant Bar BQ And again, it's all about the sauce. Orange, cranberry, grenadine and honey are responsible for the sweet and sour berry component, and the sauce is spiced by a composition of star anise, cloves, cinnamon and pepper. Not only with cheese: the same sauce goes well with steak or shashlik. The recipe is taken from the book "Geography to Taste with Nika Ganich. Gastronomic Guides". Restaurant Bar BQ.
1
Cut the cheese into 1 cm thick slices and grill in a hot skillet with oil for 1.5 minutes on each side.
- Halloumi cheese: 500 g
- Butter: 20 g
2
To make the sauce from sugar and water, boil the syrup, add dried apricots, spices, orange zest and juice, and cook until thickened. Then add cranberries, honey and grenadine syrup, bring to a boil, remove from heat and let steep.
- Sugar: 60 g
- Water: 50 ml
- Dried apricots: 100 g
- Cloves: 4 pieces
- Cinnamon sticks: 1 piece
- Star anise: 2 pieces
- Black peppercorns: 4 pieces
- Oranges: 0.5 piece
- Cranberry: 30 g
- Honey: 20 g
- Grenadine: 20 ml
3
Serve the cheese on a plate and provide the sauce separately.
