Whipped blue cheese dip with candied walnuts recipe

Whipped blue cheese dip with candied walnuts

Created by The Tesco Recipes team

Blitz up this easy-prep dip for an impressive addition to your Christmas party food table. With a garlicky, whipped cheese base and a crunchy, salty-sweet walnut topping, it packs a flavour and texture punch!

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  • Serves 6
  • Takes 25 mins plus cooling
  • 193 calories / serving

Ingredients

  • 40g caster sugar
  • 50g walnut halves, chopped
  • ¼ tsp fine salt
  • 100g Tesco Finest aged blue Stilton
  • 100g soft cheese
  • 1½ tbsp 0% fat Greek-style yogurt
  • ½ small garlic clove, finely grated
  • 3g fresh chives, finely chopped
  • crudités, to serve (optional)
  • baguette slices, to serve (optional)

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Each serving contains

Energy
800kJ 193.0kcal
10%
Fat
15g
high21%
Saturates
7g
high33%
Salt
0.6g
medium11%
Sugars
8g
medium8%

of the Reference intake

Carbohydrate 8.0gProtein 6.3gFibre 0.9g

Method

  1. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Put the sugar in a heavy-based saucepan and melt over a medium heat for 3-4 mins, swirling the pan but never stirring, until light amber in colour. Working quickly, stir in the walnuts and salt, tip onto the prepared tray and leave to cool completely.
  2. Put the Stilton, soft cheese, yogurt and garlic in a bowl and blitz with a stick blender until mostly smooth. Stir in two-thirds of the chives and a generous grinding of black pepper. Roughly crumble over the walnuts, scatter over the remaining chives and a little more black pepper and serve with crudités and bread slices, if you like.
  • Tip: Make the dip up to two days in advance and keep in the fridge. The candied walnuts will keep in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

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