Starters & Light meals

The cheese and wine platter

6
Easy
10 minutes, plus 4 hours’ setting time
10 minutes

This cheese and wine platter has a clever twist. The wine is sangria jellies! It's made with dry red wine and mixed berry juice to make this eye-catching platter. Round off the platter with strawberry-flavoured Fabulously Fruity Strings creamy blue cheese, and crunchy veggie crisps.

Wine/Spirit Pairing
Woolworths Organic Merlot 250 ml cans

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Ingredients

Method
    For the sangria jellies:

  • 20 g powdered gelatine
  • ¼ cup cold water
  • 2 cups dry red wine
  • 2 cups mixed berry juice
  • 2 blood oranges, peeled and sliced
  • 1 x 15 g pack Woolworths strawberry-flavoured Fabulously Fruity Strings
  • 100 g Woolworths Blue Pearl cheese
  • 1 x 100 g pack Woolworths salted mixed vegetable crisps

Method

Ingredients

1. To make the jellies, sprinkle the gelatine over the water and allow to stand until the grains of gelatine expand.

2. Gently heat the red wine and berry juice in a saucepan and stir in the gelatine. Pour into a small tray to a depth of 2 cm. Chill for 4 hours or until the jelly has set. Once set, cut the jelly into cubes.

3. To assemble, place the jellies on a plate with the blood oranges, candy laces, blue cheese and crisps

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Photographs: Toby Murphy 
Production: Khanya Mzongwana
Food Assistant: Josh Van Zyl 

Khanya Mzongwana

Recipe by: Khanya Mzongwana

If you're anything like our deputy food editor Khanya Mzongwana, you're obsessed with uniqueness and food with feeling. Cook her family-tested favourites, midweek winners and her mouth-wateringly fresh takes on plant-based eating.

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