Emma MacDonald

Goats’ Cheese in Olive Oil

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Preparation info
  • Serves:

    8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      15 min

Appears in
The Art of Preserving: Ancient techniques and modern inventions to capture every season in a jar
The Art of Preserving

By Emma MacDonald

Published 2021

  • About

Keeping cheese in oil excludes air and prolongs the freshness of the cheese. The other advantage is that the oil and herbs impart a wonderful flavour to the goats’ cheese. Delicious served with salad for a light lunch or snack.

Ingredients

  • 4 x 125 g/4½ oz soft goats’ cheese logs, halved widthways
  • 2 rosemary sprigs

Method

  1. Sterilize a 1 l/34 fl oz preserving jar so that it is ready to use.
  2. Put the cheese in the warmed, sterilized jar. Add the rosemary spri