Ostakökur

Cheese cookies

When I recently posted the recipe for lamb with blue cheese sauce , a follower who lives in the Westfjords recommended that I try Ljótur instead of the normal Gráðostur (blue cheese). "Ljótur að utan, ljúfur að innan" - "ugly on the outside, lovely on the inside" is the motto of this blue cheese, which has been produced for several years by the Icelandic dairy MS in Búðardalur in western Iceland.

So the next time we went shopping we took a look at Ljótur - and definitely found it very tasty. The cheese is less crumbly than the normal Gráðostur and looks impressively ugly from the outside, but tastes wonderful to us! Some of the cheese went straight into this recipe for spicy cheese biscuits. We had visitors in the evening and I wanted to put at least one tasty little something on the table.

(Of course, the recipe also works with other types of blue cheese!)

Ingredients for approx. 25 cookies

125 g blue yeast cheese
1 Tbsp dried cumin
50 g soft butter
90 g flour
1 pinch of salt

1 tsp dried thyme

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350 °F (180 °C) upper/lower heat.

Roast the cumin in a pan.

Cut the blue cheese into small pieces.

Then knead the cheese with the toasted, still warm cumin, the soft butter, the flour and the salt into a smooth dough. (Be careful with the salt - depending on the type of cheese, the cheese is almost spicy enough on its own.)

Roll out the dough, use a knife, a dough wheel or something similar to cut the dough into squares or diamonds...

...and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper.

Sprinkle the cookies with a little dried thyme...

...and bake in a preheated oven at 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 12 minutes.

[Translated from here.]