Cheese and Grape Canapés
With three ingredients, temperature and size decide everything. Cheese straight from the fridge tastes of almost nothing; twenty minutes in a warm room and it turns nutty and fragrant again. A 2 cm cube with one grape is exactly one mouthful, and the honey goes on just before serving — any earlier and it runs off, leaving the cheese sticky.
- Prep
- 20 min
- Cook
- 3 min
- Rest
- 20 min
- Total
- 43 min
- Servings
- 8
- Level
- Easy
- Per serving
- 230 kcal
Ingredients
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What to use instead
No grapes? Use fig halves or pear chunks brushed with lemon juice so they do not brown.
Makes: 24 skewers, serves 8
Shopping list
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Method
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Step 1: Toast the walnuts
Three minutes in a dry pan, shaking often, until they colour and smell nutty. Untoasted, their crunch disappears next to the cheese.
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Step 2: Cube the cheese
Cut 2 cm cubes. Smaller ones vanish on the skewer, bigger ones have to be bitten — and a canapé should go in whole.
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Step 3: Dry the grapes
Wash the grapes and dry them thoroughly on kitchen paper. Wet grapes slip on the skewer and water down the honey.
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Step 4: Thread the skewers
Bottom to top: grape, cheese cube, walnut half. The nut goes on last because it is lightest and will not split the cheese.
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Step 5: Let the cheese warm up
Take the assembled skewers out of the fridge 20 minutes before serving. Cold cheese feels rubbery; at room temperature it tastes like cheese again.
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Step 6: Finish with honey
Just before serving, drizzle thinly with honey and scatter over thyme leaves and a good grind of black pepper.
Tips & variations
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Tip
Assemble up to four hours ahead and cover with a damp cloth in the fridge, or the cut faces of the cheese dry out and go waxy.
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Variation
Aged cheddar or a blue cheese instead of gouda: with grapes and honey both are considerably louder, in a good way.
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Swap
No grapes? Use fig halves or pear chunks brushed with lemon juice so they do not brown.
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Storage
Assembled without honey they keep a day in the fridge. Once honeyed, serve straight away or the cheese turns sticky.
Nutrition
| 1 serving | Whole dish 8 servings | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 230 kcal | 1,840 kcal |
| Protein | 10 g | 80 g |
| Fat | 16 g | 128 g |
| Carbohydrates | 12 g | 96 g |
Approximate values calculated from standard ingredient data.
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