Stilton Pear And Walnut Blue Cheese Dip

This stilton pear and walnut dip and spread is super tasty and so easy to make. A blue cheese dip is the perfect addition to your cheeseboard or just slap it on a slice of toast at any time of day.

Even though it’s January and the festive season is behind us I still have the remnants of the said season in my fridge and cupboards.

Namely the leftovers, the overspill of the over-purchasing of food.

I know I used Stilton in making my Broccoli and Stilton soup last week but I still have more of the damn stuff lurking in the fridge. Time to get creative in the kitchen…….

Blue Cheese Dip

Today I made this super simple Stilton Pear and Walnut dip to use up some of that cheese.

Don’t get me wrong, I love cheese, all types of cheese. I like Stilton but in it’s plain normal cheesy state one can just get to the stage of having too damn much of the stuff.

While I have an abundance of stilton to use up you can of course use any blue cheese for this simple dip. Blue cheese and pear is such a good combo.

Dips and Spreads

Dips shouldn’t be something you only whip up for parties when you have friends round.

I make dips all the time, mainly to use things up that I only have a few bits of. Over the years I’ve made loads of dips on this blog.

So much so that I have this Sauces Dips and Spreads  section dedicated to them. There’s everything from flavoured butters to pestos (I’m mad about pesto and even wrote an Ebook packed with over 50 recipes for different Pestos, strangely enough called A Passion For Pesto!), chocolate spreads to ketchup and all things in between.

Ingredients

• 50g Stilton cheese
• 2 tbsp cream cheese
• 10g walnuts
• 1 tsp honey
• 2 small pears or 1 large pear
• Salt and pepper to taste

Alternative ingredients

Not a fan of Stilton? Then use any other blue cheese for this dip recipe. It’s the tang of blue cheese that works so well with the sweetness of the walnuts.

How to make this

To make this simple blue cheese dip you first want to roughly break up the walnuts and toast them in a dry pan for just a minute or so till they release their gorgeous nutty aroma and tip into small food processor. Whizz to a powder

Add the Stilton (or other blue cheese) and cream cheese and whizz again till you get a smooth consistency

Peel the pears and cut into chunks and add to processor along with honey and seasoning to taste and whizz till smooth

Chill for at least 30 minutes before serving

How to serve this blue cheese dip

There you have it, so easy to make and you are using up some of those leftovers to create something new and tasty that will brighten up basic ham or chicken sandwiches.

It goes great with roasted broccoli, swirled into tomato soup and of course you can just use it as a dip with your veggies or crisps etc.

I like to use dips as a way to brighten up the most mundane of dishes.

I’ll swirl them into a bowl of soup, add them to pasta, slather them on sandwiches and sometimes even dip things like veggies into them.

Of course you can dip other things like chips or crisps too though we shouldn’t even be thinking of these things now it’s January.

Looking for more tasty dip and spread ideas? Then check these out before you go;

Skordalia, Greek garlic dipping sauce

Mediterranean Smoked Mackerel Pate

Traditional Greek taramasolata

Homemade traditional style hummus

Simple homemade mackerel pate

Spinach and ricotta dip and sauce

Greek beetroot tzatziki

Homemade super simple Greek tzatziki

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