Raclettes, a super fun way of cooking your dinner with everyone involved and enjoying the process! The outcome, also, tastes delicious if I say so myself.
Raclette is a Swiss dish, also popular in the other Alpine countries, based on heating cheese and scraping off the melted part, then typically served with boiled potatoes. There are stories about how the dish first started after people came back from skiing and they would heat up a nice meal on the raclette.
There are many uses for one nowadays however, including, a quick Saturday night dinner in with your partner, a family gathering- we like to use ours on new years eve- or a date night, night in with friends and many more!
Classic food is served with a trio of sides: potatoes, pickled onions and gherkins. Add a pepper mill and perhaps a special mix of raclette spices. However, I like to spice up my dish by cooking a lot more tasty foods on it, which if you keep reading about, I will tell you all about these foods.
Raclette foods!
Like I said earlier, there is traditional food that many people like to stick to, but there is also many other tasty foods that you can put on that work so well!
Chorizo
Chorizo is one of the best foods in my opinion. You could use the thin slices or diced, but I recommend using a chorizo sausage, or thick slices, so that they do not burn quickly, and are more filling and tasty. Place theses in a corner, spread out on your grill but making sure they do not touch any other foods! Also ensure that you flip them regularly so it is not only cooked one side.
Cook these for 5-10 minutes and they should be ready!
Steak
Next thing I recommend is little chunks of steak. Either buy already small strips of steak, or buy a fillet and chop it into small strips. Place these spread apart, and just like any steak, cook them until your preference- rare, medium rare, medium, medium well or well done. Steaks are a great thing to cook on this as it is one of the main foods on your plate and bulks itup.
Again, make sure it is evenly spread out, on for how long you wish and turn it often enough to make sure its cooked on both sides.
Halloumi
This next one is my favourite! Slices of halloumi on top of the grill only for a couple of minutes to cook on both sides, and then serve it up on a plate! This is so amazing and honestly makes your meal go to a 10/10.
Ensure you do not burn the cheese as this will take away flavouring and make the texture crunchy.
Cheese slice
Cheese slices are another great thing. Most raclette grills come with fish slice type of things, with handles that you can place a cheese slice in, then place it in the slot that your handle goes in, tends to be under the frill, and melt your cheese.
These are traditionally meant to be placed over boiled potato’s but you can place it on any pat of food on your plate that your feeling!
Smoked sausage
Similar to chorizo, try get it in small, but not thin slices, so that they do not burn quickly, and are more filling and tasty. Place theses in a corner, spread out on your grill but making sure they do not touch any other foods! Also ensure that you flip them regularly so it is not only cooked one side.
And that is it!
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