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Celebrate Valentine’s Day in Style

Raclette is such a simple dish, taking minutes to melt. Celebrate Valentine's Day in style with a romantic meal on the beach – you might need a warm coat and your Muck Boots!

Getting a block of cheese ready next to the fire.

Ingredients:

One ¼ wheel of Quicke’s Buttery Cheddar 
400g of Cornish new potatoes, cooked and sliced 
Half a cup of capers 
Some crusty bread or sourdough 
Duchy Charcuterie N’duja (optional but you wont regret it!) 
Your choice of ingredients to dip

Instructions:

1. Raclette basically involves melting the side of a big chunk of cheddar near the fire, then scraping it off onto a plate and eating it with some tasty crusty bread.

2. Get a hot fire going with a nice mature centre, ready to off-set cook the cheese.

2. Get a hot fire going with a nice mature centre, ready to off-set cook the cheese.
3. Choose a range of tasty accompaniments; crusty bread or sourdough, potatoes, gherkins, veg sticks - something with a good crunch always goes well with the gooey cheese.
4. If you’re using it, melt the N’duja slowly in a saucepan. 
5. Once you’ve got everything ready, set the cheese on a tray just far enough away from the fire so that over a short period, 3 to 4 minutes, its starts to melt.
Melting cheese near the fire.
6. Replace the cheddar on the grill and it’ll be good to go again in a few minutes. 
7. Just keep bringing the cheese over whenever its ready and repeat and repeat… 
Recipe by Ben Quinn 
Food being served on the beach, shared between friends.
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