Cheese parcels in honey and orange reduction

Name: Cheese parcels in honey and orange reduction (Saquitos de queso con miel y naranja)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1¼ cups (5½ oz/150 g) chopped walnuts, or 1½ cups (5½ oz/150 g) slivered almonds; Scant ½ cup (100 ml) clear honey; 3 balls fresh mozzarella (each around 2½ inches/6 cm in diameter), quartered; 1 cup (250 ml) orange juice; 12 sheets filo pastry, 9 x 14 inches/23 x 36½ cm (or cut larger sheets to size); 2 tablespoons confectioner’s sugar (optional); 2 cups (500 ml) sunflower oil

Saquitos de queso con miel y naranja

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Andaluz

By Fiona Dunlop

Published 2023

About

“Girls love this tapa,” laughs Diego—it’s hardly surprising, since it combines delicious textural contrast with subtle, sweet Moorish flavors. You need to complete the final stage just minutes before eating. Add whipped cream as an extra sweet hit.

Ingredients

1 cup (250 ml) orange juice
Scant ½ cup (100

Europe
Spain
Almería
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

First, make the reduction: in a small pot, combine the orange juice and honey and simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, for about 30 minutes, until syrupy.

Prepare the cheese parcels by loosely wrapping each section of cheese in filo pastry, pressing the seams together While working on assembling them, keep the pastry sheets and finished parcels moist under a damp tea-towel to av