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Blue Cheese Canapés with Pecans & Grapes

Prep10 min
Total10 min
Yield4 portions
LevelBeginner
 
 
About This Recipe

A delicious canapé, you may substitute the Bleu-de-Bresse with any other blue cheese. This dish is so simple in flavor that you need to buy a top-quality cheese.

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Ingredients

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Makes 4 canapés
  • 4 walnuts or pecan halves
  • 0.5 teaspoon unsalted butter
  • pinch salt
  • 1 ounce Bleu-de-Bresse cheese or other firm blue cheese, — crumbled
  • 4 small plain baguette slices, — toasted
  • 4 small fresh parsley leaves,
  • 2 small red seedless grapes, — halved lengthwise

Instructions

  1. 1
    Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350ºF.
  2. 2
    pecans in a baking pan until fragrant and a shade darker, about 10 minutes. In a bowl, toss the hot pecans with butter and salt, and then cool.
  3. 3
    Coarsely nuts, and then toss together with cheese in a bowl, without mashing.
  4. 4
    Top each toast with a full teaspoon of cheese mixture, together slightly, and then top with a parsley leaf and a grape half, gently pressing them into the cheese.
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Heavy-Bottom Stock Pot

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Chef's Notes

Pecans scorch quickly — toast them over moderate heat and remove them the second they smell nutty. You'll find techniques like this one across our full course library.

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