Boursin Cheese with Fresh Herbs
From valinkenmore 14 years ago
- - to make
- Serves 20
This Boursin Cheese is homemade, less expensive than the store bought and packed with flavor. You can play around the whatever herbs you like. This is from Arts of the Country Kitchen. Makes nice gifts packed into pretty ramekins and wrap with cellophane and a pretty ribbon and tag. Read more Might even enclose a box of artisan crackers and a bottle of wine! See less
Ingredients
- 8 oz. cottage cheese shopping list
- 8 oz. ricotta cheese shopping list
- 8 oz. cream cheese, softened shopping list
- 1 stick or 1/2 cup butter, softened shopping list
- 4 large cloves of garlic, minced very fine shopping list
- 2 medium shallots, minced very fine shopping list
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley, packed tight shopping list
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh thyme, leaves only no stems shopping list
- 1/3 cup fresh chives, minced shopping list
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper (coarsely ground) shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper shopping list
- pinch of kosher salt shopping list
How to make it
- In a medium size mixing bowl, blend cheeses and butter. Add remaining ingredients. Mix thoroughly and store in crocks or ramekins in the refrigerator. Makes 4 cups.
- NOTE: Check out the Boursin site on the web. All sorts of great recipes for use with this cheese.
The Rating
Reviewed by 7 people-
sounds great... love the store bought but it is so expensive ... this will be a wonderful substitute and great at parties and as gifts...five forks
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peetabear
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Wonderful and I certainly will make it. saved and ^5.
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I just lovew these kind of recipes fore entertaining! great post
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