Recipes with raclette cheese: How to use the leftovers after New Year's Eve

Created: 01/03/2022Updated: 01/03/2022, 8:34 AM

By: Anne Tessin

You can use the leftovers from New Year's Eve.

For example, the raclette cheese is also suitable for delicious Kässpätzle.

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Have you bought too much cheese for the raclette on New Year's Eve?

These simple recipes with raclette cheese are a delicious way to use leftovers.

Raclette

is a typical New Year's Eve meal because it is great to prepare and you can feast with the guests, sometimes even for hours.

The shopping list for the raclette is long and because you can never be sure how much each guest eats, there are also a

.

There is a rule of thumb as to how much raclette cheese is needed per person, but to be on the safe side, you usually buy too much.

And what to do with it in the new year?

The solution are these delicious recipes with raclette cheese to use up leftovers.

Recipes with raclette cheese: Cheese spaetzle from the oven

Creamy cheese spaetzle is a hearty winter classic that no ski hut should be without, but the dish is also very popular off the mountain.

For real enjoyment you need strong cheese and this is where raclette cheese comes into play.

and the feel-good dish is ready:

• 1 kg spaetzle

• some vegetable broth

• 250 g Emmentaler cheese, grated

• 250 g raclette cheese, chopped

• Freshly ground pepper

• Fried onions to taste

• Parsley to taste

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And this is how you make the cheese spaetzle in the oven

When the cheese spaetzle from the oven is ready, sprinkle it with fried

and the first of our

is ready

.

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Recipes with raclette cheese: simple tasty onion soup

Our second recipe suggestion is also a winter classic:

.

You need to take some time to ensure that it has a nice, strong taste, because the onions have to caramelize.

You don't have to do a lot and can enjoy the young year on the sofa.

• 2 kg of onions

• 100 g butter

• 300 ml white wine, e.g. Pinot Gris

• 1.5 l beef broth

• 1 ½ tsp wheat flour, type 405

• Salt to taste

• ½ teaspoon black peppercorns (whole)

• 4 sprigs of fresh thyme

• 2 bay leaves

• 8 thick slices of white bread

• 2 tbsp olive oil

• 1 pinch of salt

• Raclette cheese for gratin

Also delicious

How to prepare the onion soup with raclette cheese

• Clean the onions and cut them into strips that are as uniform as possible.

• Let the butter melt in a saucepan and sweat the onion strips in it.

  Then let the onions simmer on a very low heat, do not fry them.

• Steam the onions on a low flame for a good four hours until they turn brown.

  In the beginning, you need to stir them more often to prevent them from sticking.

  After an hour, you only need to stir briefly every 20 minutes.

  Finally, when all the water has evaporated from the onions, you have to stir again more often so that nothing burns.

  Just keep stirring until you are happy with the color of the onions.

• Put the spices in a spice sachet or a tea bag.

• Sprinkle the flour evenly over the onions and sauté everything together for a few minutes.

  Stir well while doing this.

• Rub it all over with the white wine while stirring to avoid lumps.

• Then add the broth and a good pinch of salt, hang the spice sachet in it and let the onion soup

  simmer uncovered

  for about

  an hour

  .

• In the meantime, coat the white bread slices with the olive oil and season them with salt.

  Let it get crispy for about 10 minutes

  at

  180 degrees top / bottom heat

  .

• When the onion soup is ready, take out the spice sachet and fill it in ovenproof bowls.

  Place the toasted bread slices on them carefully so that they don't go under and spread the raclette cheese over them.

• Bake the soup with the grill function of your oven until the cheese is golden brown.

It

takes time to

prepare a

.

You can also cook it in several stages.

The caramelized onions and the ready-made soup can be kept in the refrigerator for two days.

Bring them to temperature gently before further processing.

This is the second of our recipes with raclette cheese.

Enjoy your meal!