Hot box cheese
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 11th 2016
Keywords for this recipe:CheeseCookedWooden boxOvenPotatoesFranche-comteFor 4 people, you will need:
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1 Mont d'Or cheese - 1
4 cups + 3 tablespoons potatoes - 2
1 glass dry white wine
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Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 8 min. | 50 min. | 58 min. |
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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.
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!
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.
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.
Keeping
To eat right now.
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 % |
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Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Home-made potato crisps , Comtoise tart for Seàn, Potato tortilla (Spanish omelette), Turnip top soup, Gratin Dauphinois, ... All |
 | Mont d'Or cheese: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Triple-Cheese Pumpkin Gratin, Gratin of Endives with Mont d'Or, Sausage with duchess potatoes and a Mont d'Or fondue , Dipping bread with cheese, Mini Mont d'Or fondue with "spuds in blankets", ... All |
 | Dry white wine: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rillons de Tours, How to prepare cockles, Pork chops with a duo of brassicas, Pea risotto "mantecare", Béarnaise sauce, ... All |
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