Fondue Recipe

Fondue is a traditional Swiss/French dish of melted cheese that's served in a communal pot in the middle of the dining table for everyone to dip into with breadsticks, bread cubes and crudités. Since the 50's, however, the name 'fondue' has also been used to describe dessert dishes of melted chocolate or caramel that fruits are dipped into. Read on for some savoury fondue recipes, sweet fondue recipes and some ideas on what you can dip into the different fondues.

• Simple Cheese Fondue
• French Cheese Fondue
• Garlicky Fondue
• Bacon Fondue
• Swiss Tomato Fondue
• Cheese Fondue Bread
• Traditional Beef Fondue
• Pork Fondue
• Healthy Beef Fondue
• Easy Chocolate Fondue
• Chocolate Orange Fondue
• Irish Cream Chocolate Fondue
• White Chocolate Fondue
• Caramel Fondue
• Savoury Crudités for Fondue
• Sweet Crudités for Fondue

More UK Food and Cookery Websites:

• BreadPuddingRecipes.co.uk - As well as the usual sweet bread and butter puddings, there are also savoury bread puddings that include savoury custard and cheese.
• CarrotCakeRecipes.co.uk - A lovely, sweet cake that is perfect with tea or as an afternoon snack.
• ChorizoRecipes.co.uk - A a spicy, paprika scented pork sausage, which is generally eaten cooked.
• CourgetteRecipes.com - Versatile summer vegetable that can be used in salads, grilled or stuffed.
• FlapjackRecipes.co.uk - Flapjacks in the UK are made out of oats, syrup, brown sugar and butter.
• MuffinRecipes.net - Blueberry, chocolate chip, and many other varieties of this baked bread.
• PrawnRecipes.co.uk - Includes many Oriental-inspired dishes, curries, salads and more.
• QuicheRecipes.net - Baked dish that made mostly of eggs and milk in a pastry crust.
• RicePuddingRecipes.co.uk - An incredibly comforting dessert made from rice and milk, water or cream.
• SpaghettiRecipes.co.uk - One of the most versatile types of pasta and is incredibly easy to make up into a delicious meal.
• StuffingRecipes.co.uk - Almost anything can be made into a stuffing, but the most popular ingredients tend to be rice, minced pork or beef, cous cous and cheese.
• SushiRecipes.org - Japanese cuisine usually made from rice and seafood.
• ToffeeRecipes.co.uk - Chocolate, vanilla, and many more flavours of this hard sweet.

About Fondue:

Fondue is also a style of cooking, whereby a pot of hot oil or stock is bought to the table. The guests then use the oil or stock to cook their food individually, be it meat, cheese or breadsticks. This type of fondue is commonly served with sauces so the guests at the table can cook their food and then dip it into a sauce.

The first recipe for today's most common fondue, the cheese fondue, was published way back in 1699. This recipe called for cheese, melted with wine, with bread dipped into the mixture. It developed into Switzerland's national dish. Starch is generally added to stabilise the mixture and to prevent it from splitting, along with other seasonings such as herbs or chilli.

Chocolate fondues tend to be a mixture of chocolate, cream, liquor and butter, much like a ganache but with differing quantities so that the mixture stays runny rather than sets. Check above for some variations on this delectable dessert.

FondueRecipe.co.uk uses measurements and ingredients for the United Kingdom. If you are located elsewhere in the world, you may find FondueRecipes.org makes more sense to you!