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Recipe · 25 min · serves 4
Baked feta with thyme honey and cracked pepper
Six-month feta bakes without collapsing, which is the whole reason this works. A younger, wetter cheese turns to soup.
Ingredients
- 400 g barrel-aged feta, in one piece
- 3 tbsp thyme honey
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 4 sprigs fresh thyme
- Cracked black pepper
- Bread, to serve
Method
- 01
Heat the oven to 200 °C. Lift the feta from its brine and pat dry — surface water steams instead of browning.
- 02
Set the block in a small dish, pour over the olive oil and tuck the thyme underneath.
- 03
Bake 18–20 minutes, until the edges take colour but the block still holds its shape.
- 04
Spoon over the honey, crack pepper generously, and serve straight from the dish with bread.
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