Planning to host Diwali’s party at home and look for something different to serve, besides Mithais and general snack? DIY cheese boards can be an option.
While cheeseboards (with plates) available on the market can be expensive or may not meet your expectations in terms of the quality of cheese or accompaniment, making your own cheese board at home can be an interesting activity.
As a resident of Gurgaon and Admin from the Page of Social Media Gurgaon Foodie, Shephali Saxena, said, “Popular Cheeeseboard lately and whatever I see online available for sale is very expensive or almost no cheese.” So, he and his daughter created their own cheese board at home.
Chef Vijay Dubey from Lalit added, “The cheese plate is one of the easiest DIY things, someone can easily buy a variety of cheeses starting from Rs 200 and accompanied by supermarkets and set it according to individual wishes.
You can increase your plate by adding a sense of adding like peppers, pepper, cumin, parsley, mint, thyme and rosemary.
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Chef Sarjyot Keer suggested using a large wooden board to polish cheese boards.
“I usually prepare a taste cream cheese at home.
It’s quite simple, boiled milk and thick cream together, Curdle, filter and milled immediately with some additional butter or cream.
Blender until it’s very smooth.
Your homemade cream cheese is ready.
You are ready.
Then can prepare various flavors such as garlic, fairy fairies, pesto coriander and much more by adding, exploring and combining it with cream cheese.
You can also make cheese-based cheese boards and serve it along with bread, crackers, ribbon chips, fruit fruits, etc.
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The basics that need to be remembered when preparing a cheese board
■ Cheese boards must be a mixture of cheesy / salty / sweet with fresh fruit
■ Use a large plate / tray if you don’t have a cheese board
■ Cheese knife looks luxurious, but just putting a butter knife works well for soft cheese too.
For hard cheese, it’s best to cut it in advance and put a few toothpicks or small forks
– Input by Shephali Saxena
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What to remember when choosing cheese
Texture and taste are the two most important things we have to remember when choosing cheese, say chefs
■ Most cheese belongs to one of the four basic categories: age, soft, sturdy or blue.
For good variations, select at least one of each group.
Some examples of old age cheese, soft cheese – Camembert, sturdy cheese – Manchego and blue cheese – Gorgonzola
■ Serve at least one cheese that is familiar and 28GM from each cheese to each guest.
About five types of cheese are perfect for each party
■ for a party where cheese is a main course, planning to buy 150gm for every guest
■ if you know from the experience that one type of cheese is always the most popular, buy extra varieties and a little less than cheese that is less familiar
■ There must be a good mixture of hard and soft cheese.
For hard cheese, one can have adult cheddar, Parmesan / Grana Padano, Edam or smoke cheese.
It is good to have a feta cheese on the cheese board, cut and wet to wash in olive oil.
– Input by Chef Nishant Choubey and Gaurav Lavania, Executive Chef, Sheraton New Delhi Welcomhotel
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Accompany your cheese plate
■ Crackers are a must.
One can find crackers from various brands in the nearest supermarket
■ Bread – both lavash, breadsticks, slices and toasted baguettes, or crostini garlic bread – must also be a must
■ Distributes like olives, cherry tomatoes, gherkin, and mixed drill beans such as walnuts or figs can spread throughout the board.
Moreover, wine, especially black or red globe, mustard or beautiful congestion with cheese
■ other vegetables that can be added are cucumber babies, baby carrots, celery stems
■ One can also add some pickles, such as Jalapeno, Gherkins and capers
■ Someone can also add homemade sweets (marmalade, preservatives or honey) and sauce (pesto, mustard or hummus).
Store one male and one savory sauce
■ if you want to add cold cuts then add 3-4 packs of each pepperoni, salami, ham
– Input by Gaurav Lavania, Executive Chef, Sheraton New Delhi Welcomhotel, and Shephali Saxena, Admin Gurgaon Foodie Group on social media
