New Year's Eve recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has ricotta cheese, cashel blue cheese, spring onion, cucumber, grapes, pecan, pomegranate seeds and thyme leaves.
Cucumber & blue cheese canapes
Course: New Years Eve
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Spring Onion: 2 spring onions, whites only, very finely chopped
- Cucumber: 1 cucumber, thickly sliced (about 14 inches)
- Pecan: 4 toasted pecan halves, cut into slivers
- Thyme Leaves: a few fresh thyme leaves
- Pomegranate Seeds: 1/2 80g tub pomegranate seeds
- Grapes: 16 small black grapes
- Cashel Blue Cheese: 25g Cashel Blue cheese, chopped
- Ricotta Cheese: 100g ricotta cheese
Directions
- Beat the ricotta with the blue cheese and onion until really smooth. Arrange the cucumber slices on a large platter. Top each cucumber slice with some of the cheese mixture - you can pipe it on if you want a professional finish.
- Top half with a grape and sliver of pecan, and the remainder with pomegranate seeds and thyme. Keep chilled until ready to serve.Will keep in the fridge for up to one day.
