John Whaite's cheese-stuffed dates recipe

A stress-free Christmas canapé with the contrasting flavours of salty goat's cheese and sweet medjool dates. Extravagant simplicity. Make sure you buy pitted dates for this recipe.

Ingredients

  • 100 g soft goat's cheese
  • 50 g full fat cream cheese
  • 1 handful (small) fresh coriander and mint, finely chopped
  • 1 pinch salt and pepper, to taste
  • 24 medjool dates, pitted
  • 6 slices prosciutto, quartered lengthways
  • 3.5 oz soft goat's cheese
  • 1.8 oz full fat cream cheese
  • 1 handful (small) fresh coriander and mint, finely chopped
  • 1 pinch salt and pepper, to taste
  • 24 medjool dates, pitted
  • 6 slices prosciutto, quartered lengthways
  • 3.5 oz soft goat's cheese
  • 1.8 oz full fat cream cheese
  • 1 handful (small) fresh coriander and mint, finely chopped
  • 1 pinch salt and pepper, to taste
  • 24 medjool dates, pitted
  • 6 slices prosciutto, quartered lengthways

Details

  • Cuisine: Middle Eastern
  • Recipe Type: Snack
  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Preparation Time: 10 mins
  • Cooking Time: 0 mins
  • Serves: 10

Step-by-step

  1. Beat together the goats cheese and cream cheese, adding a little coriander and mint, and salt and pepper.
  2. Gently pull open the dates and fill them with the cheese mixture using a teaspoon.
  3. Wrap each date in prosciutto and skewer with a cocktail stick.

This recipe was devised by John Whaite for Tesco

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