Add the cheese, onions, cheddar, mustard and mix together. Spoon your cheese mixture in the middle of your pastry, into a sausage shape allowing plenty of room around the edges and top and bottom for the plait
One of the best things about the Christmas period is that you have an excuse to make recipes like this cheeseandonionplait (in case you needed an excuse)
We all brought something to eat, and the spread was a veritable feast…………cold roast chicken, baguette, pate and rillettes, cheeseand ham sandwiches, potato salad, salad, olives, saucisson, cornichons, beer, wine, cider, squash and of course, my Picnic Pie - Sausage Plait with Sage andOnion
You can sprinkle these trapezium off-cuts with cheeseand bake them. For savoury fillings, make a normal white sauce, as you might make for lasagne or cauliflower cheese, but double the amount of flour
Peel, core and slice the apple and arrange over the pudding, then crumble the cheese over it all. I love black pudding but tend to only have it sliced and fried as part of a cooked breakfast or starter
For my Italian Minced Beef Plait I used the chopper bowl attachment for mincing the onions, garlic, celery and carrot, chopping the cheese, making breadcrumbs and beating the egg
Once the butter has melted add the double cream and half of the cheese, stir again. Grate the cheese. Place the flours, pinch of salt and cubed chilled butter into a good sized bowl
Diana and Chetna went down the savoury route with Cheese & Walnut Rolls andOnion & Pine Nut Rolls. The middle was filled with Epoisses cheese, and the 'petals' with fig and apricot chutney
