I adore breakfast food. This recipe jumped out of my cookbook when the author likened the dish to having cheesecake for breakfast without all the fat. If somebody says you can have cheesecake for breakfast, always sign up.
The recipe is from Claire Robinson’s cookbook, 5 Ingredient Fix*. She has a show on Food Network by the same name which I don’t watch, because I haven’t had cable for over 4 years, but I used to watch it religiously back when I had access.
This cookbook is not new, but I want to share it with you because it is one of my absolute favorites. (I added it to my collection since I shared my other favorites with you in this post.) It embodies a lot of what I love most about cooking: simple ingredients and recipes, gourmet flavor without tons of work, and the ability to add your own creativity and favorite extras to enhance what you read on the page. (And also, the curried sugar pumpkin soup is killer.)
The recipe I chose for this particular breakfast was for baked fresh ricotta with stewed cherries. Rather than following the recipe for the stewed cherries, I used cherry chutney that I canned last summer. Claire didn’t lie–it’s a lot like having cheesecake for breakfast. I spread the baked ricotta on homemade english muffins and topped it with cherry chutney…divine, I tell you!
Stay tuned next week when I’ll share my new recipe for homemade english muffins!
Baked Fresh Ricotta Recipe
Recipe adapted slightly from 5 Ingredient Fix by Claire Robinson
- 1-1/2 cups ricotta cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 Tablespoon of honey
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Zest of 1 lemon
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all the ingredients, and spread in a shallow dish. Bake in the oven until the cheese puffs up and the top starts to turn golden brown. Spread over toast or an english muffin, topped with jam or cherry chutney.
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