Wattle Seed Cheesecake
Degree of difficulty: Low
Preparation time: Apart from gathering the wattle seeds, roasting them and then grinding them. 40mins
Cooking time: About 40 minutes.
Ingredients
Filling
3 eggs (separate yolk and whites)
250g sugar
3 egg yolks
250g cottage cheese
375g smooth ricotta cheese
250ml Buttermilk
3 dessert spoon semolina
4 dessert spoon ground wattleseed
2 dessert spoons lime or lemon rind
Base
1 packet Granada biscuits
250g butter
Method
Place the 3 egg whites into a mixer and place on high until you get a meringue.
While the meringue is being mixed crush a packet of Granada biscuits in a bowl and mix in 250 grams of butter that it is at room temperature.
Once the base is mixed through pat into a 8-9 inch cake base.
Place meringue aside
Place the 250 grams sugar and the 3 egg yolks mix on hi for 3-4 minutes until creamy.
Add into the mixture the cottage cheese, ricotta, buttermilk, semolina, and wattleseed.
Turn on hi speed for 2-3 minutes until mixed through. Scrape from side once mixed and fold through slowly the meringue. Add 2 dessert spoons of lemon rind and fold through.
Spoon mixture into base.
Place into a preheated oven of 180 degrees and bake for 40 minutes.
- ½ jar marmalade
- 4 dessert spoon sugar
- 1 cup of water
- 1 dessert spoon lemon rind
- nip of midori
Sauce
Mix all ingredients into a pot. Place on stove until it dissolves for 2-3 minutes. Make sure you watch the sauce and keep stirring, you don’t want it to stick to the pan. Take it off the stove when it becomes a consistent syrup.
Place sauce into a jug and place into fridge to cool.
16 Dec 2008 5:40:04am
This is a terrific base recipe in which the Wattleseed can be replaced with Lemon myrtle sprinkle or Fruit spice or Forest anise. I like to garnish with Rainforest lime confit or Riberry confit. Any way, Mark's presented an easy recipe to recycle so you never get tired of it. All the Australian ingredients are available from... [edited]... so there's no need to collect, roast and grind your own these days. [Please refrain from adding website information. The ABC does not endorse commercial promotion of any kind - Moderator]