Deep-fried-breaded-halloumi.
Halloumi is a wonderful squeaky cheese and popular enough now to be bought in supermarkets. This isn't so much a recipe as an instruction to cover cheese in breadcrumbs and throw it (gently) into hot oil, but I will still make it into a recipe. Halloumi doesn't melt, like normal cheese, so you can do exciting things to it.

1. Aquire halloumi, breadcrumbs (you can make your own or buy a tub of them if you are sensible/lazy), batter mix, flour, oil.

2. Put oil in a pan in a sensible place (I am not responsible if you burn your house down, don't do this unless you have played with oil before and can do it safely - or have one of those fryer-ma-bobbers) and start it heating.

3. Cut the halloumi into nice lumps.

4. Arrange three bowls, in a line, one of flour, one of batter and one of breadcrumbs.

5. Is the oil hot? You can try and brown some bread in it, I like to be dramatic and pop a drop (a drop) of water into it - if it crackles and goes mad, it is ready. Hurrah.

6. Take a bit of halloumi, cover it in flour, now transfer it to the batter (the flour will make it adhere to the halloumi), and finally to the breadcrumbs. There isn't a way to do this without getting covered in all three. I class 'success' as 'not also covered in hot oil'.

7. Put it in the oil. It will make happy noises. Keep doing this until there's a nice number in there; don't put too many in or you will have trouble seeing which are done.

8. When they are nice and browned, rescue and put on some kitchen roll to soak up the oil.

9. Then you can eat them. Sweet Chilli sauce to dip them in is lovely.

They look like this:



And are very very nice.
( stevierar, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 21:43, 2 replies)

That sounds frakkin tasty
I'm gonna be cookin me some of this
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Wed 4 Jul 2012, 22:55, closed)

fucking yum
I love squeaky cheese (thought I was the only one who called it this). Im definitly trying this.
(technocore, Thu 5 Jul 2012, 7:18, closed)