Five ‘Wheys’ with NZ Cheese

Whether you want to extend the range of your recipe collection or use left over NZ Cheese this collection will reward your palate. Cooking with New Zealand Cheese enhances the flavour and textures of your dishes. Whether you’re a cheese lover or a culinary enthusiast, NZ Cheese will add a delicious touch to your dishes. for some inspiration click on the titles below.

• Fresh Unripened NZ Cheese

  Include and spread – mix roasted garlic, chopped flat-leaf parsley and French tarragon leaves into fresh unripened NZ cheeses like Ricotta, Cottage Cheese, Cream Cheese or Crème Fraiche. Try roughly chopped roasted red pepper and bittersweet smoked paprika or for another idea, finely chopped smoked salmon and snipped chives.

• Greek and Cypriot-style NZ Cheese

  Fill and crumble – cook four good handfuls of spinach leaves in a dash of olive oil with finely chopped garlic and season with salt and pepper. Scramble four eggs.

  Put the spinach and egg in the centre of a piece of Lebanese bread. Crumble over some feta, add a squeeze of lemon juice and sprinkle with a little dukkah. Roll up tightly and cut in half to serve two people.

• NZ Blue Cheese

  Savoury presence – juicy and tender, hot off-the-grill steaks topped with rich and creamy blue cheese butter. Mix together blue cheese, butter, chopped fresh herbs and a dash or two of Worcestershire sauce.

  Leftover blue cheese butter can be frozen.

  Make a frittata using creamy blue cheese, cooked potato cubes, pancetta, fresh herbs and eggs.

• Hard NZ Cheese

  Snack on it – toasted flatbreads make a quick snack – cut pita bread in half and put it into a heavy-based frying pan with sizzling clarified butter (flatbreads cook quickly so there is less chance of burning if you use clarified butter). Sprinkle over grated cheese and dollop over your favourite chutney. Cook until the cheese melts then top with the other half of the pita bread. Turn and cook this side. Transfer to a board and cut into quarters.

  What is not to love about slices of bread spread with butter, Marmite and grated NZ Cheddar cheese, then popped under the grill until hot and melted. Cut into fingers before eating.

• Try a new way with NZ Cheese

  Each week, try a new NZ cheese and pair with what you consider complements the cheese, for example; roasted pears with blue cheese, local walnuts and baby greens.

  You will discover subtle nuances in flavour and learn to appreciate each cheese even more.