Kitchen Notebook
Chapter I · Salads & Starters

Easter Platter with Baked Cottage Cheese and Horseradish

A big platter of baked cottage cheese, eggs, sliced meats and grated horseradish.

2 variants

Variant 1With radishes and sliced meats

Steps

  1. 1. In a bowl, mix the butter, cottage cheese and egg and add salt.

  2. 2. Bake the cottage cheese at 180 °C and cut it into cubes.

  3. 3. On a large wide platter lay out the eggs in quarters, the cottage cheese, radishes and sliced meats, and herbs if you like.

  4. 4. Grate horseradish over the top in shavings.

Variant 2In petals, with baked cottage cheese

Steps

  1. 1. Set one yolk aside. Mix the cottage cheese with the eggs and salt it well.

  2. 2. Grease a tin, spread the cottage cheese 3–4 cm thick and brush it with the yolk you set aside.

  3. 3. Bake for about 20 minutes at 180 °C. Let it cool and cut into cubes.

  4. 4. Lay out on a platter in petals: home-made sausage, ham or roast pork, eggs cut lengthways into 8, cottage cheese.

  5. 5. Cover everything generously with thin shavings of raw horseradish, as thin as when you sharpen a pencil.

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