Baked Pears Stuffed With Cranberries and Blue Cheese
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This recipe is open to a lot of variation, too—chopped chiles, red peppers, caramelized onions and on and on. For variation, you could sub in goat cheese for all or part of the blue cheese. You can serve this with crackers or thin slices of an artisanal bread, although the crunchy Panko crust can carry the appetizer dish by itself. This would be wonderful with a glass of rose and some beautiful sliced Bosc pears.
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Here is the recipe as I prepared it in my kitchen.
Savory Blue Cheese Cheesecake
February 27, 2025
Ingredients
- For the crust:
- 1/3 C. unseasoned Panko breadcrumbs
- 1/4 C. walnuts (chopped fine but not to the point of being oily)
- 2 T. unsalted butter (melted)
- For The Filling:
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 2-4 oz. blue cheese
- 1/4 C. sour cream
- 2 T. chopped chives
- 2 T. chopped green chiles
- 1 egg (beaten)
- 1 t. lemon juice
- Pinch of black pepper
- For Topping:
- 1/2 C. walnut pieces (or pecans)
- 1 T. honey
Directions
- Step 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare a small springform pan by spraying it with cooking spray. Set aside.
- Step 2 Put the unseasoned Panko breadcrumbs, walnuts and melted butter into the bowl of your food processor. Process until mixed and the walnuts are chopped fine. Press this mixture into your prepared springform pan. Set aside.
- Step 3 Combine the cream cheese, blue cheese (use 2 to 4 oz. of blue cheese depending upon your taste), sour cream, egg, lemon juice and black pepper in the bowl of your food processor and process to combine until you have a smooth mixture. Add in the chopped chives and green chiles and process briefly to incorporate into the cheese mixture. Spoon this mixture into our prepared pan and bake for about 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and let the cheesecake cool. I covered my cheesecake and refrigerated it overnight.
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