Recipe: Cheese Fondue

Name: Cheese Fondue
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: The recipe is originally Swiss and is called Fondue moitié-moitié (half-half).; Cheese Fondue pour 6 personnes :600 g (21 oz) (1.3 pounds) Gruyère cheese; 600 g (21 oz) (1.3 pounds) Fribroug Vacherin cheese; 600 ml (2.5 cups) (almost one bottle of wine) of white wine; 5 dl of white wine (fendant if you can find it); 4 teaspoons of potato flour (or corn flour) with 5 cl (1.7 fl oz) of Kirsch (a cherry brandy); 1 cloves of garlic; Poivre du moulin et râpure de muscade

By ivan 4.8/5 (12 reviews)

Prep 20 min

Cook 15 min

Total 35 min

Servings 6 serv.

Cette recette typiquement suisse nécessite pour les français une mise en garde. Vous verrez que dans les ingrédients, nous indiquons du gruyère. Il s'agit bien sûr de gruyère suisse, qui n'a strictement rien à voir avec le 'gruyère' que l'on trouve en France. Rassurez-vous, ce gruyère suisse est disponible dans toutes les bonnes fromageries et même dans certaines grandes surfaces

Ingredients for 6 servings

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The recipe is originally Swiss and is called Fondue moitié-moitié (half-half).

Cheese Fondue pour 6 personnes :

600 g (21 oz) (1.3 pounds) Gruyère cheese
600 g (21 oz) (1.3 pounds) Fribroug Vacherin cheese
600 ml (2.5 cups) (almost one bottle of wine) of white wine
5 dl of white wine (fendant if you can find it)
4 teaspoons of potato flour (or corn flour) with 5 cl (1.7 fl oz) of Kirsch (a cherry brandy)
1 cloves of garlic
Poivre du moulin et râpure de muscade

Step-by-step directions

1 Cut out your bread in section.

2 Rub the interior of your caquelon with the clove of garlic cut into two and leave it in the caquelon then.

3 Heat the white wine in the caquelon with soft fire.

4 Pepper, add a nutmeg râpure and pour your grated cheeses or half-compartments into small pieces.

5 Stir up unceasingly with your spatula. It is very important that your cheese does not attach. If the fondue is too thick you can dilute it with a little dry white wine.

6 Juste before present your fondue, to add your potato flour diluted in 5 kirsch Cl. and stir up last once.

7 Once your caquelon on its stove with soft fire to respect the texture of the vacherin (use an electric stove, or if you do not have any, a flammable gel) your guests cut out with the hand of the small pieces of bread which they prick on the forks with molten and plunge then in cheese…

For those which do not know yet this splendid country which is Switzerland, taste this receipt and I guarantee that your next holidays could bring you well in country helvète…