How to cook fondue at home from cheese, eggplant, sweet chocolate, meat?

Fondue is a delicious dish that perfectly complements a romantic evening or a meeting with friends. The article tells about how it is possible to cook deliciously cheese and chocolate fondue.

What is a fondue dish and its types?

Fondue - classic dish of Switzerland .It differs not only in its originality, unusual appearance, but also in an incredibly delicate aroma. It is noteworthy that Fondue has many interesting traditions of its origin and the very meal. If you treat your guests with chocolate or cheese fondue, rest assured that your loved ones will be delighted.

First of all, it should be noted that the word "fondue" from French is translated as "melt" or "melting" .In the original, fondue should include two obligatory types of cheeses - Emmental( spicy, sweet, flavored cheese with large holes), as well as Gruyer( yellow, hard cheese, slightly pungent and slightly nutty, there is no cheeseholes).

For preparation of traditional fondue , special tools e should be used, in which small pieces of cheese should be heated. However, it is necessary to do this in a preheated dry wine in the bowl. There are a huge number of delicious recipes , offering to interfere with cheese other additives, for example, cherry vodka, from which the fondue only "wins"!

INTERESTING: The history of the fondue is very unusual. For the emergence of the dish should be thanked by the Swiss shepherds, who could a few days to a number of pasture cattle in valleys and mountains. As provisions, they had only cheese, wine and biscuits. Under the hot sun, the cheese melted and the shepherds did not think of anything else, like dipping pieces of crackers into wine and liquid cheese.

Classic fondue

Fondue recipe for fondue

Fondue "French":

• You should have three kinds of different cheeses for such a dish.
• Suitable: savoy cheese "konté", Swiss classic "emmental" and "bobor".Quantity add to the taste and volume of the fundraiser.
• Also use 100 ml.dry white wine
• Wine can be substituted for milk if you do not drink alcohol.
• Add a small clove of garlic, passed through a crush and 1/3 tsp to the paste.nutmeg nut ground.

French fondue

Fondue "Italian":

• You will need for this fondue only one kind of soft cheese called "Fontina".Use approximately 150-200 g. Quantity should be adjusted according to the preferences and volume of the fondue bowl.
• Add 100 ml.any milk( the fatter, the better)
• You also need one egg, pre-whipped and poured in a thin trickle into the mass.
• For flavor, you can add 10-20 grams of fresh truffles or 2 tablespoons.truffle oil.
• You can also add 0.5 tsp as desired.dried "Italian herbs": oregano, basil, marjoram.

Italian fondue

Fondue "German":

• Milk( preferably fatty) - 125-150 ml.
• Cheese "Gouda" - 100-150( add the cheese in the amount, preferred by the volume of the bowl).
• Cheese "Edam" - 100-150 g.
• Gin white - 2 tbsp.(can be replaced with vodka)
• Corn flour - 1 tbsp.(you can also replace it with the same amount of corn starch).
• Pepper and nutmeg - by pinch for flavor

German fondue

Fondue at home without fondue

For cooking, you will need a conventional Teflon-coated frying pan or a thick bottom culinary bucket:

• Turn on the smallest fire on the stove and place the dishes.
• Put a large spoonful of butter on the bottom of the dish.
• The selected fatty aromatic cheese for fondue( any), shine into the shavings.
• Pour 100 ml into the oil.fatty milk or cream, and gradually pour the cheese chips.
• Thoroughly mix
• mass. If the mass seems to you that the mass is liquid. You can add 1 tablespoon.flour and mix thoroughly so that there are no lumps.
• Put hot fondue immediately on the table and offer guests with ham or pieces of crackers.

Can I prepare fondue without a special fondue?

Sweet fondue: recipe

The usual sweet fondue is very easy to prepare. You will need:

• Cream as a foundation fondue - 400 ml.(choose the most fatty ones).
• Vanillin - 1 bag
• Sugar - 150-250( according to your preferences)

IMPORTANT: As the boil, cream will thicken. If the mass appears liquid, you can add 1 tbsp.cornstarch. Fondue is suitable for dipping fruit, biscuits and pieces of crackers.

Chocolate fondue with fruits: a recipe at home

You will need:

• Wine dry white - 100 ml.
• Chocolate bar( any: dairy or bitter) - 100 g.( Approximately).
• Butter - 50 g.
• Cocoa - 1 tsp.

IMPORTANT: If the mass seems too thick and it burns to the bottom of the bowl, you can gradually add a small amount of wine or milk to it, if you are making non-alcoholic fondue).

How to cook a delicious chocolate fondue?

Fondue Swiss - Emmental: recipe

You will need:

• Cheese "Emmental" and "Gruer" in equal proportions. Rub them into a crumb.
• Add 1 tbsp.butter
• Pour in 100 ml.fatty milk
• Several st.l.dry white wine, preferably French.
• For density you can mix 1 not full st.l.ordinary flour.

Aubergine fondue recipe for the winter

Fondue made from eggplant is an unusual recipe that you can vary your menu. You will need:

• Ripe eggplants - 2 kg.
• Vegetable oil - 500 ml.(use any that you like).
• Garlic - several pcs.teeth
• Parsley - bunch( approx. 15 g.)
• Preferred spices( any that you like).

Preparation:

• Eggplants are cleaned, finely chopped
• They are soaked for half an hour in saline solution
• Afterwards, excess water is squeezed out
• oil is heated in the frying pan. All the eggplants are sent to the butter and roasted there until a beautiful color, mix the mass thoroughly.
• Add garlic and chopped greens, as well as spices.
• Glass jars for storage wash with soda
• Spread the hot mass in jars, close the lids and after it has cooled off - send it to the refrigerator.
• Such preservation can be eaten, both cold and hot.

How to make cheese fondue at home?

Fondue at home is easy to prepare. To do this, you do not need to look for hard-to-find original European cheeses. You can use the ones that are sold in your store.

If you are looking for cheese for fondue, it is important to choose the on aromatic and hard cheese. Suitable "Swiss" with large holes( often called "Royal" or "Emmental").Well, if you add this cheese in half with "Parmesan" or "Grano Padano".

As a liquid base, can use white wine, not sweet and not too strong. For those who do not drink alcohol, you can use milk. It is poured into a bowl under a candle, wait for heating, and one by one, dip the small pieces of cheese into the liquid. As the cheese melts, mix the mass, add spices to taste and a garlic clove for flavor.

IMPORTANT: In such a fondue you can dunk bread crumbs, chips, dried lavash sheets, salted crackers, cooked vegetables, slices of ham, fried mushrooms and much more.

How to prepare cheese fondue?

Cheese fondue: with what they eat?

Cheese fondue has some very good taste combinations and therefore it is recommended to have with products such as:

• Bread toasts or crackers( pieces of fresh bread are quite suitable).
• Pieces of ham or smoked beef, chicken( not greasy, without fat).You can also use pieces of any cooked meat.
• Boiled vegetables: potatoes, carrots, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, bell peppers and others.
• Fried mushrooms( preferably in its entirety)
• Crackers, chips, salted biscuits
• Nuts

IMPORTANT: It is also necessary to eat fondue properly. A piece of food should be picked up with a special fork for fondue, dipped in cheese and sent to the mouth.

What should I eat fondue for?

Meat fondue: recipe at home

Meat fondue involves pre-marinating meat pieces so that, during dipping into the fondue bowl, it can finally be prepared before eating.

You will come in handy:

• Chicken or turkey fillet - 200 g per person.
• Lemon juice - several st.l.
• Vegetable oil - 1 glass
• Soy sauce - to taste

Preparation:

• Meat is cut into beautiful and orderly pieces, approximately 2 cm.
• A lemon juice and soy sauce are prepared marinade, in which pieces of meat should lie about an hour.
• In the fondue, heat the oil
• Pieces of meat are punctured on the forks and sent to the oil for cooking, and then eaten when forming a crust.

How to cook meat fondue?

Chinese fondue: recipe

You will need:

• Vegetable oil - 120-150 ml.
• Soy sauce - 50 ml.
• Ginger root grated - 5 g.
• Garlic - several pcs.teeth to taste
• Honey - 1 tsp.
• Hot pepper or a mixture of peppers - 1 tsp.

The resulting mass should be heated in fondue and brought to a boil. After that, it can dunk on forks pieces of raw chicken, beef or shrimp.

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