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This recipe is a great classic from Franche-Comté (area of eastern France). A Mont-dor cheese (from this area) is oven cooked in its wooden box with a little dry white wine, and served melted over baked potatoes. It's a dish for a winter evening meal with friends, very easy to prepare, everything goes on the table around which you are sitting.

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Last modified on: February 11^th 2016

For 4 people, you will need:

1 1 Mont d'Or cheese
2 1 kg potatoes
3 1 glass dry white wine
Total weight: 1,600 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
8 min.	50 min.	58 min.

Keeping: To eat right now.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 20 min.

Preheat your oven at 360°F (180°C).

Wash carefully potatoes with a brush or scratch sponge, if possible don't peel them, and put in the oven 20 minutes before cheese.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Open cheese and lay box in its lid.

With a teaspoon make a small hole in the center.

As the chef you are alone allowed to taste the cheese now!

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Surround wood box with aluminum foil just in case, and fill the hole with dry white wine.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Lay cheese on a tray and put in the oven too.

Stage 5 - 30 min.

Let cheese about 30 minutes until it melt completely...

Stage 6

...and top is well brown and crusty (for that don't hesitate to switch on your oven grill for a few minutes at the end).

Stage 7

Put cheese and potatoes in the middle of the table, everyone take itself in potatoes, cut in pieces and add melted cheese.

Remarks

If you can't get Mont d'or in your area try other cheeses, if possible soft paste with a wooden box.

You can serve this with cooked meats, and a green salad with French dressing.

And to drink?

A good white wine if possible from the same Area, a Jura's wine of course or one of those delicious White wine from Savoie. If you don't like white wine, try a not too strong red, something like a Beaujolais.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,293 Kcal or 9,600 Kj	120 gr	192 gr	116 gr
115 %	46 %	18 %	18 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
143 Kcal or 599 Kj	8 gr	12 gr	7 gr
7 %	3 %	1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
573 Kcal or 2,399 Kj	30 gr	48 gr	29 gr
29 %	12 %	5 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 8.20 €
Per person : 2.05 €

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Source

Home made.

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Smoky potato and potimarron gratin, Comtoise tart for Seàn, Crème de foie gras, Seafood sauerkraut, Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach, ... All
	Mont d'Or cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Gratin of Endives with Mont d'Or, Morel risotto with Vin Jaune and Mont d'Or, Dipping bread with cheese, Quick courgette soup with cheese, Baked Mont d'Or with diced mixed vegetables, ... All
	Dry white wine: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mushrooms on toast, French style, Pan-fried salmon with white cabbage, Purple artichokes braised in white wine, Artichoke hearts forestier , French onion soup, ... All

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