Blue Cheese Bake

Name: Blue Cheese Bake
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 300 g St Agur, Roquefort or other blue cheese, sliced or crumbled; 200 ml chicken or vegetable stock; 12 slices country-style bread (about 600g); sea salt; olive oil; 6 tomatoes, peeled; 2 cloves of garlic, crushed, peeled and chopped; 4 red onions, diced; freshly ground black pepper; 200 ml dry white wine; a bunch of basil

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

The French name for this dish – Soupe au Fromage – is wonderfully misleading. It isn’t a soup by modern standards, but it is an old and very comforting baked cheese dish from the Auvergne region. It’s very good as a main course, too, with a crisp green salad on the side.

Ingredients

olive oil
4 red onions, diced
2 cloves of garlic, crushed, peeled and chopped

Europe
France
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Heat the oven to 200°C/gas 6.

Heat a little oil in a pan and gently sauté the onions and garlic for 10 minutes until soft – do not brown or frizzle them. Add the white wine and stock, gently bring to a simmer, then remove from the heat.

Toast the slices of bread. Slice the