Recipes For Leftover Cheese – The Best Easy Cheese Ideas – delicious ways to use up all the cheese leftovers you have.
Recipes For Leftover Cheese
These recipes for leftover cheese are all comforting and creative ways to use up a block of cheese or part of a bag of grated cheese that’s sitting in the fridge, cheese drawer or maybe even long forgotten at the back of a shelf.
Each easy recipe will help you make the most of every little bit of cheese, so that there’s no food waste from your cheese stash – whether that’s hard cheeses, soft cheese or even parmesan rinds. There’s a recipe for every taste, budget and dietary requirement to appeal to all cheese lovers.
As you’ll see, the versatile ingredient can be used to elevate and enhance all kinds of dishes with cheesy goodness.
Broccoli Casserole
You can use all kinds of types of cheese in a casserole, and this keto broccoli casserole recipe has only four ingredients – broccoli, sour cream, heavy cream and grated cheese.
Cheese Sauce
A great way to use up any leftover cheese is to create a velvety, smooth cheesy sauce without flour that you can serve with hot pasta, vegetables, nachos or as an indulgent dipping sauce for slices of bread.
Mix in leftover brie, blue cheese, goat cheese, parmesan cheese, cheddar cheese and really any other leftover bits of cheese you have.
To make a quick sauce, all you do is melt together the cheese, along with a little cream, sour cream and milk, over low heat, stirring constantly until smooth and creamy. Add in your seasoning of choice or fresh herbs and then enjoy.
Cheese Soups
A great idea is to make a healthy soup, like broccoli and cheese soup, that’s full of vegetables and other ingredients that you have in your fridge, and then top each bowl with plenty of leftover cheese.
You can also cook parmesan rinds into soup to make a super flavorful broth that’s infused with a strong cheese flavor.
Here’s the video where you can watch the easy soup recipe being prepared, step by step. Hit play below or click here to watch on YouTube.
Egg Dishes
Incorporate different cheeses into your weekly meal plans by creating cheese omelettes, cheesy fried eggs or scrambled eggs with cheese for breakfast or even breakfast for dinner.
Mash
Mix a creamy cheese like cream cheese into mash to make an indulgent and luxurious side dish, like in the above pictured cauliflower mash with cream cheese.
Cheese Sandwiches
There are lots of ways to enjoy cheese sandwiches, from simply spreading cheese spread or cottage cheese over your favorite bread or creating the ultimate cheese toastie with one or a combination of cheeses that’s toasted in a sandwich press, skillet, frying pan or oven until golden brown and gooey with melted, crispy cheese.
Charcuterie Boards
Fill a board with fresh cheese, strawberries, nuts and chocolate for a tempting cheese platter that makes an easy way to use up a whole variety of cheeses.
Warm Goat Cheese Salad
This warm goat cheese salad makes a healthy comfort food meal that’s a brilliant way to use up a unique flavored cheese like goats cheese.
