Baked cheese with rosemary and poppyseed crackers

Name: Baked cheese with rosemary and poppyseed crackers
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Modern Australian
Ingredients: 1 round white-rind cheese (about 400gm), such as Camembert or Brie; 60 ml chardonnay; 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced; 5 small rosemary sprigs; 200 gm plain flour, sieved (1 1/3 cups); 50 gm wholemeal flour, sieved (1/3 cup); 1 tsp baking powder; 30 ml extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for brushing; 2 tbsp poppyseeds

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for baked cheese with rosemary and poppyseed crackers.

Aug 16, 2013 3:25am

By Alice Storey

Serves 6
30 mins preparation
30 mins cooking plus resting

Baked cheese with rosemary and poppyseed crackers

If you're lucky enough to find a wheel of cheese in its wooden casing, carefully remove the cheese and any paper, then line the case with baking paper. Place the cheese back inside and bake.

Ingredients

1 round white-rind cheese (about 400gm), such as Camembert or Brie
60 ml chardonnay
1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
5 small rosemary sprigs

Poppyseed crackers

200 gm plain flour, sieved (1 1/3 cups)
50 gm wholemeal flour, sieved (1/3 cup)
1 tsp baking powder
30 ml extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for brushing
2 tbsp poppyseeds

Method

Main

1
For poppyseed crackers, combine flours and baking powder in a bowl with 1 tsp fine sea salt. Mix in olive oil and 120ml water, and bring together with your hands. Knead lightly to form a smooth dough, pat into a disc, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate to rest (1 hour). Preheat oven to 220C. Divide dough into 2 pieces and roll out each on a floured work surface to 2mm thick. Cut into rough 3cm-width triangles and transfer to trays lined with baking paper. Brush with olive oil, season to taste, scatter with poppyseeds and bake in batches until golden and crisp (6-7 minutes). Transfer to a wire rack and cool.
2
Reduce oven to 200C. If your cheese has no case, place it in a baking dish or large ramekin that it fits snugly. Place on a tray lined with baking paper, pierce top of cheese 5 times with a small sharp knife, stud each hole with a slice of garlic and a sprig of rosemary, drizzle with wine, and bake until the cheese is slightly golden and very soft (10-12 minutes, depending on the type of cheese). Cool slightly and serve with poppyseed crackers.