Goat’s cheese, thyme and honey on toast

Name: Goat’s cheese, thyme and honey on toast
Yield: Makes 12
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: salt and pepper to season; 3 ripe Conference pears; about 2 tbsp runny honey; a good sprig of thyme, leaves picked; 1 French ficelle (thin long baguette), cut into 12 rounds; 175 g small goat’s cheese log, not too ripe, thinly sliced into 12 rounds; 1 garlic clove, halved

Preparation info

Makes
12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Prue

By Prue Leith

Published 2018

About

These are simple and delicious. You need to find bread rolls or round toasts exactly the diameter of a small goat’s cheese log (about 3.5cm/1½ in across). I have used a French ‘ficelle’ (like a mini-baguette) from a French bread shop, but you could, if necessary, stamp out rounds from a sliced loaf using a cookie cutter.

Ingredients

1 French ficelle (thin long baguette), cut into 12 rounds
1 garlic clove, halved
175 g

Europe
France
Starter
Main course
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Heat the grill to high. Arrange the slices of baguette on a baking tray. Grill until just crisp and beginning to brown, then turn over and brown the other side. Remove from the grill and immediately rub each toast with a cut side of the garlic.
Leaving the skin on, cut the middle section of each pear (the part that is about the same circumference as the toast a