Rainbow goat's cheese balls

Rainbow goat's cheese balls

Colourful goat's cheese balls are perfect atop any platter and can be made up to a day ahead

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 20

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Ready in 10 minutes
Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Method

  1. Place the rindless soft goat's cheese in a bowl and roughly mash with a splash extra-virgin olive oil and season to taste. Take small spoonfuls and roll into bite-sized balls. Chill, covered on a baking sheet until ready to use. Roll in coverings of your choice; crushed pink peppercorns, white and black toasted sesame seeds, snipped fresh chives or cayenne pepper all work well. Keep in the fridge until ready to serve, with cocktail sticks.
  2. Make them ahead; the rolled and coated balls will keep, covered in the fridge, for up to a day.

Per ball

59 kcalories, protein 3g, carbohydrate 0g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 0g, salt 0,3 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2005.

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  • 22 February 2008

    Paul rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    I fear that they really just dont ever look as good as they do in the picture, it really is difficult to make them so flawlessly covered- unless you really have a lot of ingredients to play with, and potentially waste. Also..it may be somewhat over powering to have a too large a ball in one go. I'd either keep them small, or serve with bread/ bruschetta.

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  • 09 February 2011

    klm909 rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Hmm, used soft goat's cheese as instructed but it was nearly impossible to roll into balls! Just fell apart or stuck to my hands! So not really ball shaped to start with then very difficult to coat. Finished plate of them looked ok and they did disappear quickly at our party but wouldn't make them again.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 20

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 10 mins

Ready in 10 minutes
Vegetarian

Vegetarian

Ingredients

  • 300g rindless soft goat's cheese
  • a splash extra-virgin olive oil
  • crushed pink peppercorns , white and black toasted sesame seeds, snipped fresh chives or cayenne pepper
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Per ball

59 kcalories, protein 3g, carbohydrate 0g, fat 5 g, saturated fat 2g, fibre 0g, salt 0,3 g

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