How to make the simplest cheese sticks

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-13 00:26

These cheese sticks are equally good in the company of a frothy glass or simply as an addition to a soup or salad. They are prepared from purchased puff pastry, which is designed to save you time and effort.

Ingredients:

• puff pastry layer;
• 1 glass of grated hard cheese;
• 1 egg;
• a pinch of ground nutmeg;
• 1 teaspoon paprika;
• 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
• ½ teaspoon of salt.

After thawing the dough, roll it out into a layer 2-3 mm thick on a surface previously floured.

Mix about a glass of your favorite grated hard cheese with spices. In fact, almost any spice available can be used, but we settled on smoked paprika, salt and a small amount of nutmeg. A couple of tablespoons of sesame seeds are also sent to the mixture for texture and a nice buttery aftertaste.

Lubricate a sheet of dough with a beaten egg and cover ⅔ of the entire cheese mixture.

Fold the dough in half and refrigerate for 20 minutes.

Over time, re-grease the surface with the beaten egg and add the remaining sesame and spice cheese. Gently press the cheese into the dough with your fingers and lightly roll over with a rolling pin.

Cut the dough into strips approximately 2.5–3 cm wide.

You can send it to the oven right like that by spreading the sticks on the parchment, or you can roll each of them into a spiral.

Cheese sticks are baked for 12-15 minutes at 200 degrees.