Hot Goat’s Cheese Canapés with Fresh Figs and Chilli Spiked, Salted, Honeyed Walnuts

Jump to Recipe

Hot, creamy goat’s cheese, topped with chilli spiked, salted honeyed walnuts, served on crispy crackers and topped with a drizzle of honey and slices of ripe, fresh, sweet figs. A wonderful combination of sweet and salty, soft and crunchy, these beautiful canapés come together in less than 15 minutes. Rather wonderfully, they are as ideal to serve for smart pre-dinner treats, as they are for casual nibbles, whilst you are watching a good film or football on the television, or even a chukka of polo!

Lyngen Lodge

Since visiting Lyngen Lodge last April, I have been recreating the delicious food we were served there. Although we didn’t have canapés every night, these were served on the Tuesday evening, when we had a special dinner to celebrate Chris Mathias’ 60th birthday. They called them ‘Goat’s cheese with sweet walnuts on crackers’. I added some fresh figs when I made mine; not only were they in season, they are also a personal favourite and a classic combination with goat’s cheese. I can only assume that seasonal fresh figs are quite difficult to find north of the Artic Circle in April!

• 

• 

How to make Hot Goat’s Cheese Canapés with Fresh Figs and Chilli Spiked, Salted, Honeyed Walnuts

Collect all your ingredients together:

Salt and Chilli Spiked Honeyed Walnuts –

• walnuts (or use pecan nuts)
• unsalted butter
• runny honey
• fine sea salt flakes
• chilli flakes, or more to taste
• sprigs of fresh thyme

You will also need –

• crackers of your choice – I used sourdough crackers from Sweden
• goat’s cheese
• extra sea salt flakes
• extra runny honey
• slices of fresh fig

How to make these delicious canapés:

First, make the honeyed nuts –

1. Melt the butter in a small frying pan, over a moderate temperature, with the honey, salt, chilli and thyme.
2. Add the walnuts and stir thoroughly.
3. Cook gently for 4 – 5 minutes, stirring, ensuring that all the nuts are toasted and are covered in the honey and butter mix.
4. Tip out onto a baking parchment lined baking tray, separate the nuts, remove the thyme and leave to cool.
5. When cool, chop the nuts.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

Now, finish these delicious canapés –

1. Slice the log of cheese into 12 equal slices.
2. Lay 12 crackers out on a baking sheet and place a slice of goat’s cheese in the centre of each cracker.
3. Cook in a preheated oven for 5 minutes, until the cheese is hot and soft.
4. Top with the chopped nuts, pressing them down a little into the soft cheese, to secure them. Transfer to serving plate.
5. Add a a drizzle of honey and a sprinkling of sea salt to each canapé.
6. If desired, top with thin wedges of soft, fresh fig.
7. Serve straight away.

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

• 

Made this recipe?

If you make this recipe, do please tag me on instagram @daffodil_kitchen. You could also leave a comment in the box directly below the recipe.