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Recipe: Roasted Grape Barquettes with Blue Cheese and Walnuts
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Recipe: Roasted Grape Barquettes with Blue Cheese and Walnuts

Serves 8

Roasting grapes concentrates their sweetness, transforming them from a cheese platter filler to a luxurious appetizer. These barquette pastry shells are a cinch to make; fitting the dough into the molds is just like making a piecrust. If you can’t find barquette molds at your favorite gourmet kitchen supply store, you can make crusts in regular muffin tins.

  • 1½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 pound red seedless grapes
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • Honey
  • ½ cup crumbled blue cheese
  • Fresh thyme leaves, for garnish

Preheat oven to 400°. In a medium bowl, mix together flour, sugar and salt. Incorporate butter into flour mixture until well combined. Stir in eggs until a soft dough forms. Shape into a ball and cover with plastic wrap; refrigerate for 30 minutes.

On a rimmed baking sheet, toss together grapes and olive oil. Bake 10 minutes; add walnuts to pan, and bake 5 minutes more.

After the dough has chilled, roll it out on a lightly floured surface to ¼ inch thick. Drape dough over 8 barquette molds; press dough into bottoms and up sides. Roll a rolling pin over top of molds to trim away excess dough. Prick bottoms and sides of dough with a fork; place dough-filled molds on a baking sheet.

Bake until lightly golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool. Remove the barquettes from molds; drizzle the bottoms with a light layer of honey. Add desired amount of blue cheese. Add 3 or 4 grapes to each barquette shell, depending on size. Sprinkle with toasted walnuts; drizzle honey over the top. Sprinkle with thyme.

Recipe and photo provided by Edible Charleston. Subscribe to Edible Charleston’s newsletter.

Kaitlin Gooding, contributor
Shell Royster, photographer