Name: Crumbed camembert, apple, mango, salad leaves and radish
Yield: For 4 as a starter
Ingredients: ½ tsp finely grated lime zest; 1½ tbsp lime juice; 1 tbsp runny honey; 1 egg, beaten; 6 radishes, thinly sliced; 1 handful salad leaves (I used baby kale); 50 g (1¾ oz./scant ½ cup) (all-purpose) flour; 2 crisp eating apples, quartered and cored, then julienned; 1 mango, peeled and sliced; 1 ripe camembert (about 250 g/9 oz.), chilled, so it is firm enough to coat; oil for frying; 100 g (3½ oz./1⅔ cups) breadcrumbs

Preparation info

For
4
as a starter

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Savour

By Peter Gordon

Published 2016

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What could be better than deep-fried crumbed cheese? Yum yum! Whether you use goats’ cheese, ricotta mixed with herbs and dried chilli and rolled into balls, mixed cheese scraps squashed together or, as here, camembert, deep-frying it in this way is like having grilled (broiled) cheese on toast! Culinary purists may feel that combining a classic French cheese with mango is too odd but my Italian burrata with mango dressing will prove that mango is a great