Kadaifi apple fritters with pickled blue cheese salad

Name: Kadaifi apple fritters with pickled blue cheese salad
Yield: Serve 4
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: 75 g baby spinach leaves; 1 free-range egg yolk; ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard; 100 g kadaifi pastry; 40 g unsalted butter, melted; vegetable oil for deep-frying; little flour; 50 g rocket leaves; 75 g Yorkshire blue cheese, frozen for 10 minutes and shaved; 1 carrot, peeled; 4 tablespoons red wine vinegar; salt, freshly ground black pepper and ground nutmeg; 1 Cranny Smith apple, cored and finely diced; juice of ½ lemon; 125 g Yorkshire blue cheese (or other creamy blue cheese), crumbled; 2 tablespoons caster sugar; pinch of paprika; 175 g fresh white breadcrumbs; 30 g fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves; 75 g celeriac, peeled; 1 red onion, peeled and thinly sliced

Preparation info

Serve
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pure Vegetarian

By Paul Gayler

Published 2006

About

Kadaifi (or kataifi) is a type of filo pastry that is finely shredded and makes an interesting wrapping for many dishes. It is available from Middle Eastern or Greek stores. Yorkshire Blue is a creamy blue cheese available in supermarkets.

Ingredients

For the Kadaifi Fritters

1 Cranny Smith apple, cored and finely diced
juice of ½ lemon
125 g

Europe
Greece
Pastry
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Coat the apple with the lemon juice and toss together for 1 minute.

For the kadaifi, place the crumbled cheese in a bowl and add the diced apple, the mustard, paprika and breadcrumbs and finally the egg yolk. Season and bring the mixture together to a thick paste that holds its shape. Refrigerate for 2 hours, then remove and shape into eight small patties. Dust with a little flour.