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Cheese Fondue

Cheese Fondue

  • Makes: 4 to 5 appetizers  
  • Preparation Time: 25 minutes 
  • Cooking Time: 10 minutes 

Ingredients

1/4 cup50 mL butter

2 tbsp30 mL Robin Hood® All Purpose Flour

1 can354 mL Carnation® Regular or 2% Evaporated Milk 

1 1/4 cups300 mL grated Swiss cheese

2 tbsp30 mL crumbled blue or goat cheese

1/2 tsp2 mL salt

Pinch ground nutmeg

Dash hot pepper sauce (optional)

1/4 cup50 mL extra milk or water (if needed)

Accompaniments:

Cubed French or other crusty bread

Red or yellow pepper chunks

Zucchini sticks

Broccoli florets

Directions

  1 In a saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Add flour and cook, stirring for 2 minutes, but do not colour. Whisk in evaporated milk. Bring to a gentle simmer; stirring constantly (sauce is thin at this stage). Remove from heat and stir in both cheeses, salt, nutmeg and pepper sauce, if using. Stir to melt cheese.

  2 Transfer to a fondue pot and place over low heat to keep warm, but not boil. Add extra milk or water to thin sauce, if desired.

  3 Arrange vegetables and bread on platter and basket. With long fondue forks, dip bread and vegetables into sauce. (There is a tradition that if a piece of food is dropped in the pot, you kiss the person next to you!!!).

Tip(s)

Arrange vegetables on a platter, cover and refrigerate until serving time


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