Fondue with bacon sticks

Total: 2 hr 50 min. | Active: 35 min.

Ingredients

for 4 people

Dough
400 g brown flour
1 ½ tsp salt
1 tsp pepper
½ cube yeast (approx. 20 g), crumbled
300 g waxy potatoes, cooked in their skins, coarsely grated
160 g diced bacon
2 dl water
1 tbsp maple syrup
Bacon sticks
a little  brown flour
Fondue
garlic clove, cut in half
800 g fondue cheese mix (e.g. moitié-moitié, i.e. half Gruyère, half Vacherin)
1 ½ tbsp Maizena cornflour
3 dl white wine
2 tsp preserved green peppercorns, drained

How it's done

Dough

Mix the flour, salt, pepper and yeast in a bowl. Add the potatoes and all the other ingredients up to and including the maple syrup, mix, knead to form a soft, smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1½ hrs. until doubled in size.

Bacon sticks

On a lightly floured surface, divide the dough into 16 portions and shape into rolls, each approx. 25 cm long, transfer to two baking trays lined with baking paper, dust with a little flour. Cover the dough rolls and leave to rise for a further 30 mins.

To bake

Approx. 15 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 220 °C. Remove from the oven, leave to cool on a rack.

Fondue

Rub the garlic around the fondue pot. Add the cheese to the pot. Mix the cornflour with the wine, pour into the pot, bring to the boil over a medium heat, stirring constantly until the cheese has melted and the fondue is creamy. Add the pepper corns, place the fondue pot on the burner, serve the fondue with the bacon sticks.

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