Marinated Pickle Cheese Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 25 minutes
Cooking time: 0 minutes
Serves: 8 as a cheese platter
This is best made 1-2 days ahead of time
Ingredients Needed
- 220g/7.7ozs Gouda cheese, rectangular block
- 220g/7.7ozs red Cheddar, rectangular block
- 100g/3.5ozs cream cheese
For Dressing
- 150g/5ozs chipotle cucumber pickle chips, finely chopped
- 4 tablespoons/60ml/2flozs pickle brine from above
- 4 tablespoons/60ml/2flozs apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons/30ml/1floz extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped chives
- 20g/1.4ozs baby capers, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh dill fronds
- 3 teaspoons ranch or Caesar dressing
- 1/2 teaspoon red pepper or chilli powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1 DRESSING - Leave the Gouda and Red Cheddar in the fridge while you make the dressing but leave the cream cheese on the bench to soften. In a bowl add the pickles, pickle brine, apple cider vinegar, olive oil, chives, capers, dill, ranch or Caesar dressing, chilli powder and stir. Season with salt and pepper.
Step 2 CHEESE - Slice cheese into 1/2cm or 0.2inch slices in the same size as the lavosh crackers. Sandwich a teaspoon or so of the cream cheese between the two types of cheese squares and place standing up on its side in a small oval baking dish. Repeat with the remaining cheese.
Step 3 POUR - Give the dressing one final stir and pour it over the cheese and allow to marinate. The cheese absorbs the flavours of the marinade and you can marinade the cheese for 1-2 days.
Personal Note
I brought this to some Christmas Eve and Christmas Day celebrations. If you love pickles and cheese then pickled marinated cheese will be your best friend!
It feels like Christmas was such a distant memory and I guess it has been almost a month since we celebrated it. We've had a relaxing January easing back into work and I love that you have loved simpler recipes because that's what I've felt like making too. Win win!
We took things slow but there was a little bit of drama that happened just after Christmas. Mr NQN's brother Manu and his girlfriend Manuela went bushwalking in the Blue Mountains during the void between Christmas and New Years. They love the outdoors and often go there if the weather is good.
One day Mr NQN got a call from his sister Araluen. Manu has a Garmin satellite messenger device and he had signalled that he and Manuela were in trouble. Garmin in America alerted emergency services in America who contacted his mother Tuulikki, his emergency contact. Unfortunately Tuulikki is really quite deaf and gets very stressed in emergencies so she wasn't able to hear what the issue was. So she passed the phone on to her daughter Amaya who luckily happened to be staying with her.
All of the Elliott kids were contacting each other to find out if Manu had told them where he was canyoning. He finally hiked to where he could get reception and gave their coordinates. It turned out Manuela had sprained her ankle and had to be airlifted out of the canyon! So 2025 did end on a very dramatic note!
So tell me Dear Reader, have you ever tried marinated pickle cheese? Do you like pickles? And have you ever been in a situation like that?
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