Name: Bees knees cocktail with blue cheese topped apple crisps and fried olives
Total time: 2400 s
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 50 millilitre London dry gin; 25 millilitre lemon juice; 12.5 millilitre honey syrup; 1 lemon; 1 sprig rosemary; 1 Scarlett Paradise apple; 50 gram lighter creamy soft cheese; 50 gram blue stilton; 2 tablespoon toasted walnuts; 2 pack pimento, jalapeño and garlic stuffed olives; 150 gram panko breadcrumbs; 50 gram plain flour; 1/2 teaspoon Italian herb seasoning; 2 egg; 40 gram blue stilton

Step 1

Grab a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Add your gin (50 mL) , lemon juice (25 mL) and honey syrup (12 mL) . Shake until well-chilled.

Step 2

Double strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a twist of lemon (1) and a sprig of rosemary (1 sprig) .

Step 3

Pre-heat the air fryer to 180°C if required.

Step 4

Thinly slice your apples (1) or (carefully!) use a mandolin. Layer apple slices in a single layer in the air fryer basket.

Step 5

Cook for 8-10 minutes, turning and flattening them once or twice during cooking. Once done, remove and repeat with the remaining apple.

Step 6

Meanwhile, make your blue cheese topping. Combine the stilton (50 g) and cream cheese (50 g) .

Step 7

When everything’s cooked, top your apple slices with a small amount of the blue cheese mixture and finish with a little crumble of walnuts (15 g) .

Step 8

Pre-heat your air fryer to 200°C if required.

Step 9

Grab three bowls. Crack and whisk the eggs (2) into one, mix the flour (50 g) and Italian seasoning (as needed) together in the second, add the panko breadcrumbs (150 g) to the third.

Step 10

Stuff a bit of stilton (40 g) into each olive (2 packs) . Coat them in flour, then the egg mixture, then the breadcrumbs. Once coated, add the olives onto a plate in a single layer.

Step 11

Once they’re all done, spray them with olive oil spray.

Step 12

Place them into the air fryer basket. Arrange in a single layer with a little space between each olive.

Step 13

Air fry for five minutes. Turn them over and spray again with olive oil spray. Air fry for another three minutes. Place on a plate or in a bowl and enjoy.

Bees knees cocktail with blue cheese topped apple crisps and fried olives

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Bees knees cocktail (serves 1)

Apple crisps topped with blue cheese (serves 2)

Blue cheese stuffed fried olives (serves 8)

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