Being creative with.. Goat cheese!

One of the many delicious things in life is cheese.. Camembert, Gouda cheese, Feta, Brie and goat cheese are just a few that pop into my head and are my favourite kind of cheeses.

One in particular, goat cheese is something you can use in many dishes. Especially when you are a vegetarian or don’t like meat like me, it is a good way to finish your food.

When im at a restaurant having dinner or lunch and my eye sees the word goat cheese I’m always ordering that kind of specialty because of the delicious taste with almost every kind of vegetable.

For example in a salad combined with some honey, apple, croutons and nuts. Or what do you think of a vegetarian carpaccio made of goat cheese with beet, rucola, alfalfa sprout and walnuts?

Happy goat, delicious cheese!;) (Photo:mamaenzo.nl)

As a replacement for meat, you can also be creative with goat cheese in pasta’s or pizza’s.

I recently discovered this heavenly kind of sauce/grating recipe on smulweb.nl, which you can combine with lams meat or, like I did, being creative and make it as a well- filled pizza sauce..

Yes, the result did actually look like this! And it was good...(Photo:smulweb.nl)

What you need for the 250 gr of tomato sauce, which you can also use as a delicious base for homemade pizza:

• 3 sp. Olive oil
• 1 chopped onion
• 2 pieces of chopped garlic
• 2 thin slices of dried orange peel
• 2 sp. Balsamic oil
• 600 gr. Chopped tomatoes
• 1 tiny spoon of tomato pulp
• Sugar, salt and pepper by taste

Put the garlic, onions and orange peel in a pan after heating up the olive oil. When the onions are soft but not colored yet, add the balsamic oil. Once the oil is mixed with the onions and garlic add the chopped tomatoes as well as the tomato pulp. Stir all together and let it boil at a medium heat source for about 10 to 15 minutes. After this remove the orange slices and add sugar, salt and pepper by taste.

You can keep this sauce best in the fridge for 2 days, or deep frozen for 6 months.

What you need for the grating on top:

• 250 gr of the tomato sauce
• 2 tiny spoons of thyme
• 4 medium size tomatoes
• 200 gr goat cheese
• 16 pcs. Black olives

Start heating the oven at 170 degrees Celsius.

Put 2/3 of the tomato sauce in a pro heated platter. Distribute 2/3 of the thyme on top of it.

Cut the 4 tomatoes into slices, as well as the goat cheese and put them on top of the tomato sauce and finish it with the olives and the remaining tomato sauce with thyme.

Put the platter into the over for 10 minutes and after a few minutes underneath the grill to get a crispy looking top!

I bought a Turkish bread, called “pide” and sliced it horizontally in two pieces.

After sprinkling the bread with olive oil, chopped pieces of garlic and some dried rosemary leaves I putted it under the grill for a few minutes with a crispy light pizza base as result!

Grilling bread will take not long before its done, so please keep an eye on the bread before it gets burned;)

You can purchase this bread at big supermarkets or, best of all, Turkish bakeries! (Photo: frogfood.peace.net)

To have some delicious options to vary, put some pesto, cream cheese on the Turkish bread before applying the tomato grating.. For the extra cheese lovers: Some parmesan cheese flakes on top of all seems to be really good according my friends.. Enjoy this healthy and heavenly dinner! I will make it for sure many times more!

P.s Good to combine with a red cabernet sauvignon;)