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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Quick, easy, and delicious, this cheese fondue recipe is the perfect centerpiece for your next dinner party. Serve it with a variety of bread, crackers, pickles, apple slices, and cooked meats.
Why not try making some homemade soft pretzel bites or Classic Homemade Garlic Bread to have with your hot and gooey fondue? For a sweeter twist, you can make a Chocolate Fondue to serve with fruits and cookies.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is an easy recipe.
- Total Time: It will take you about 35 minutes to make this fondue.
- Variations: Fondue variations are nearly unlimited! Change up the cheeses you use, add something aged or smoked for a different flavour profile. Play with the amount of seasonings and maybe even add some cayenne or chili powder if you’d like to spice things up. Add a pinch of smoked paprika, skip the nutmeg, throw in some Italian Seasoning, and try different types of crackers or bread for dipping.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a large bowl, a whisk, a medium saucepan or fondue pot, and a warmer to keep the fondue melted. Depending what you’re dipping into the fondue, you may also need forks or skewers, a cutting board, and a sharp knife.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Cheese: Swiss Cheese and Gruyere are the classic options here, but you can use almost any cheese for this fondue. The meltier the better. Try a sharp cheddar or something with hot peppers.
Mustard: Mustard powder is the best for fondues and cheese sauces in general, but you can also give Dijon mustard a try. The wholegrain or old-fashioned varieties offer a lot of flavour and some specks of colour in the fondue.
Things to Dip: Whatever you plan to dip, it needs to be fairly sturdy or you’ll lose plenty of chunks in the cheese. Cubes of French bread or a crusty sourdough loaf will work well. Pretzels, pickles, and cooked meats like kielbasa or your favourite smokies are all more great options. Depending on which cheese you use, apple slices are also wonderful dipped in fondue.
How To Make Cheese Fondue
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Get your dipping foods ready and set them aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the cornstarch and seasonings. Add the grated cheese and toss it in the dry mixture until it’s well-coated.
- In a medium saucepan or fondue pot, heat up the wine, lemon juice and garlic over medium heat, until it reaches a low simmer.
- Add the cheese slowly, stirring until it’s all melted and smooth.
- Add more wine if it’s too thick. If desired, add nutmeg and salt.
- Place fondue pot over its heat source (move from saucepan to fondue pot if necessary). Serve with food, and forks or skewers.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Cheese Fondue
Don’t Overheat the Cheese: The best temperature for a cheese fondue is just warm enough to melt the cheese, which is why you only bring the wine up to a low simmer before adding the cheese. If you’ve got a fondue set, you’ll notice that the heat source (often just a small candle) isn’t designed to crank out much heat. Boiling the fondue would break the cheese down to far and cause the fats to separate, creating an oily mess rather than delicious gooey sauce.
Companions: You can make an entire meal from a fondue spread. Why not try making some Air Fryer French Fries to dip into the cheese? Or learn how How To Make Fried Pickles instead of just using regular pickles. If you really wanna get fancy, make some Brown Sugar Bacon Wrapped Smokies and use those as your meat for dipping.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Once it’s cooled, store your fondue in it’s pot or in a lidded container in your fridge for up to 4 days. Reheat in the microwave or on the stove depending on your own preference.
Freezer: Cheese fondue is unlikely to freeze well, though you could grate your cheese in advance and store that in the freezer until you’re ready to make the fondue.
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There you go, folks. A delicious cheese fondue that will only take you a few minutes to make. Try it and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Cheese Fondue
Ingredients
- 2 cups shredded Swiss Cheese
- 2 cups shredded Gruyere Cheese
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup dry white wine, light beer or chicken broth
- 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice to taste
- 1 clove garlic minced finely
- pinch of nutmeg
- salt to taste if needed
- Food to Dip
- cubes of bread
- pretzels
- bacon
- apple slices
- garlic sausage slices
- cornichons
Instructions
- Prepare your desired foods for dipping.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the cornstarch, dry mustard and pepper.
- Add in the grated cheese, and toss to coat with the cornstarch mixture.
- In a medium saucepan or fondue pot, place the wine, lemon juice and garlic.
- Bring to a low simmer over medium heat, then add a handful of cheese mixture and stir until melted in completely. Repeat until all of the cheese has melted in.
- If the mixture is too thick, add a little more wine until it reaches the desired consistency. Add in the nutmeg and salt if desired.
- Transfer to a fondue pot and place over the heat, or simply move the fondue pot over to it’s holder. Place in the middle of the prepared dipping foods. Serve the food with fondue forks or wooden skewers. Dip and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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