It may seem like a strange combination, but a creamy blue cheese spread, combined with warm, roasted grapes on crunchy crostini is a fantastic, fancy snack or appetizer.
Course: Appetizer, Snack
Keyword: baguette, blue cheese, crostini, fresh thyme, olive oil, red grapes, sour cream
Ingredients
Crostini Ingredients
1baguette
olive oilfor brushing
fresh cracked pepper and saltto taste
Grapes Ingredients
4cupsseedless red grapesrinsed and drained
4sprigs fresh thyme
cooking spray
Spread Ingredients
4ouncesblue cheesecrumbled
1/2cupsour cream
4sprigs fresh thyme
1pinchnutmeg
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Slice the baguette into about one-quarter inch slices. Brush each slice with a light coating of olive oil and place them in a single layer on a large baking sheet (line it with parchment or foil for easy cleanup). Sprinkle the slices with salt and pepper, and bake for about 10 minutes, checking after 5, until the slices are at your desired crispiness.
For the grapes, spread the grapes out in a baking dish (an eight-by-eight-inch or a nine-by-13 would each work fine). Spray the grapes with cooking spray, and place the sprigs of thyme around the pan.
Roast the grapes at 375 for 15 to 25 minutes or until they are starting to burst. Stir them at around the 10-minute mark.
(You can roast your grapes and brown your crostini at the same time.)
Transfer the grapes to a serving dish, and serve warm.
For the spread, combine the blue cheese, sour cream, leaves of the thyme sprigs and nutmeg into a food processor or blender and process until smooth. Transfer the mixture to a small serving dish and top with a few more thyme leaves for decoration.
To eat this dish, spread some of the blue cheese mixture on a crostini and then top with a few warm grapes.
Refrigerate any leftover spread or grapes, and store crostini in an airtight container.