Cheese Savoury Sandwich Filling
This cheese savoury recipe is quick & easy and makes a tasty cheese savoury sandwich filling perfect for lunches, picnics, and afternoon tea.This recipe makes sufficient filling for 16 dainty afternoon tea sandwiches approx 3 cm x 8 cm
Servings: 4
Calories: 441kcal
Ingredients
- 75 g Red Leicester cheese or other strong red cheese
- 75 g Mature white cheddar cheese
- 5 tablespoon Mayonnaise
- ¼ teaspoon Paprika sweet and mild
- ¼ teaspoon Dijon mustard
- ⅛ teaspoon Black pepper ground
- ¼ Small red pepper
- 2 Salad onions
- 11 Slices Bread White or Brown, for making finger sandwiches
Instructions
Make the Cheese Savoury Filling
- Begin by chopping the red pepper finely and leaving to drain on kitchen paper .
- Next, finely dice salad onion.
- Mix mayonnaise with paprika and dijon mustard.
- Grate the cheddar cheese and Red Leicester cheese finely, then toss together in a bowl - use your hands, it's easy this way.
- Add in the pepper & onion and mix again with your hands.
- Finally, stir in the mayonnaise using a metal spoon.
- Cover and chill until ready to use.
Make the Sandwiches
- Cut the crusts from the bread.
- Cut one of the slices of bread in half - we will only cut 1 sandwich from this slice.
- Lay 5 of the full-sized slices out, along with one of the smaller pieces of bread.
- Stir the filling briefly and spoon a generous amount onto each slice of laid out bread, spreading it out using a blunt knife.
- Top each slice with another piece of bread of equal size.
- Cut into slices - my bread allowed 3 sandwiches to be cut from each large piece of bread and just one from the smaller sandwich. In total, you should cut 16 small sandwiches.
- Cover until ready to serve and consume as soon as possible (within the hour to avoid the bread drying out).
Notes
- In total this recipe will make around 16 dainty sandwiches each measuring approximately 3cm wide by 8cm long. I used average-sized sliced bread. If you have small/ large slices be prepared to increase/ decrease the number of slices of bread needed to obtain this number of sandwiches.
- Alternatively, the filling can be used to make 4 regular sandwiches (crusts not cut off).
- I didn't butter the bread as I felt that the creamy filling didn't warrant it. But if you prefer to have buttered sandwiches, go ahead.
- The filling can be made 24 hours in advance and stored in the fridge. Do give it a stir before using to mix in any liquid that has drained out of the peppers.
- Do not use store-bought grated cheese as it has added ingredients and tends to be dry.
- Try other cheese too - as long as they grate well. Experiment with milder Cheddars, firm blue cheeses like Stilton, or regional favourites such as Lincolnshire Poacher, Cheshire, Cornish Yarg (without the nettle wrapping), and Double Gloucester.
Nutrition
Calories: 441kcal | Carbohydrates: 33g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 28g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 46mg | Sodium: 653mg | Potassium: 183mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 586IU | Vitamin C: 11mg | Calcium: 347mg | Iron: 2mg
