Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, fried halloumi cheese with caper and basil dressing. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Halloumi is a fabulous cheese from Cyprus and a favorite in Greek cooking. It's an ideal frying cheese because it doesn't melt. Beware of refrigerating cooked halloumi for use on another day; refrigeration tends to make fried halloumi too hard and firm.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have fried halloumi cheese with caper and basil dressing using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Fried Halloumi Cheese with Caper and Basil Dressing:
- Take 1 block halloumi cheese
- Take olive oil for frying
- Get seasoned flour (I used black pepper and paprika) for coating
- Make ready For the dressing:
- Make ready juice and zest of 1 lime
- Make ready 1 tbsp capers, drained
- Make ready 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
- Make ready 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
- Take 1 tsp grain mustard
- Make ready 1 handful fresh basil leaves
- Take 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Prepare Salad leaves, to serve
For the ultimate melty cheesy goodness, check out our recipe for halloumi pizzettes with caper and chilli dressing. Halloumi arrives in sealed plastic wrapping and has a reasonably long shelf-life, which means that you can always have a pack tucked away in the fridge. When the oil is really hot, press each slice of cheese into seasoned flour to coat it on both sides, then add them to the hot pan as they are done. Demonstration of frying Haloumi Cheese - traditional Cypriot style cheese.
Steps to make Fried Halloumi Cheese with Caper and Basil Dressing:
- Snip the basil leaves into small pieces and mix with all the other ingredients for the dressing in a small bowl, or whizz briefly with a stick blender. Set aside.
- Cut the halloumi block into 8 slices widthways, and prepare the seasoned flour in a dish. When you're ready to eat, heat the olive oil in a frying pan.
- Arrange the salad leaves on a serving plate and drizzle over some of the basil dressing.
- Press each halloumi slice in the flour both sides, then slide into the hot oil. Fry on both sides until golden and crispy.
- Arrange on top of the dressed leaves, drizzle over more of the dressing and serve at once.
Fry on a hot pan with olive oil approx Demonstration of frying Haloumi Cheese - traditional Cypriot style cheese. GRILLED HALLOUMI CHEESE SANDWICH/ BURGER (with caramelized onions) - CYPRIOT GREEK RECIPE. Mix the mustard, oil, vinegar, capers, olives and lime juice in a bowl and season. Pan fry the bread in plenty of olive oil until golden. Halloumi is the squeakiest, cheese there is, and it's funny to think that not so long ago it was hard to find it in any large supermarkets.
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