Baron Bigod with sliced Comice pear, candied walnuts and almonds

5.00

These fast and simple canapés come together in less than 30 minutes: simple good sliced cheese paired with sweet Comice pears, crunchy caramelised walnuts and a touch of fragrant Marcona almonds. The whole dish is served on Carr's Caramelised Red Onion Melts, for a moreish and easy treat.

First published in 2024

Ingredients

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Candied Walnuts

Method

1

Place sugar in a pan with a little water, and cook to 121°C

  • 100g of cane sugar
2

Add the walnuts and continue to cook until sugar crystallises and coats the walnuts. Transfer to a baking parchment-lined tray and carefully use a wooden spoon to separate the walnuts one another, then leave to cool

3

Slice the cheese 0.5cm thick and layer on the biscuits

4

Slice the pear and layer it on top of the cheese

5

Crumble the candied walnuts on top of the pear

6

Use a microplane to grate the Marcona almonds all over the tops of the crackers

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After cutting her teeth at the likes of Brett Graham's The Ledbury and Phil Howard's Elystan Street, Sally Abé rose to fame at The Harwood Arms. She's now at the helm of The Pem inside the Conrad London St James hotel, along with three accompanying establishments.

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