Place the cottage cheese into a food processor or blender and blend to a smooth whipped consistency. Set aside.
Cottage Cheese Board with Marinated Olives, Pine Nuts, Chilli & Lemon
Need to please a crowd? Try this fresh and satisfying twist on the classic grazing board.
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Method
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Place a small saucepan over a medium high heat and add the olive oil, eschalot, garlic, thyme, and fennel seed and cook for 2-3 minutes to soften. Stir through the olives, grated zest of 1 lemon and honey.
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Cook for 1 minute then remove for the heat and allow to marinate and cool to room temp or rewarm to serve.
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Spoon the whipped cottage cheese over a board or platter and spread out, making dips and crevasses for the olives and marinade to pool in. Grate over the remaining lemon.
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Spoon over the olives and their marinade, scatter with the pine nuts, chilli, herbs and serve with your favourite things to dip in.
Ingredients
500g Brancourts Cottage Cheese
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 eschalot, sliced
2 cloves garlic, sliced
4 sprigs thyme
1 cup pitted kalamata olives
1 cup pitted green Sicilian olives
2 lemons
1 tbsp honey
2 tbsp Calabrian chilli in oil or 1 tsp dried chilli flakes
1/4 cup toasted pine nuts
Handful dill & mint leaves
Extra lemon zest to serve, optional
Bread, crackers & crudites to serve
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