Parmigiano Reggiano Cheesecake
Ingredients
Cheesecake:
100 g digestive crumbs
4 tbsp sugar
8 tbsp butter, melted
800 g cream cheese, softened
1 tin condensed milk
2 tbsp flour
4 tbsp lemon juice
100g Parmigiano Reggiano, grated
4 eggs
Sweet Cheese Tuile:
50 g butter
50 g icing sugar
1 egg
50 g plain flour
15 g Parmigiano Reggiano, grated
20 g flaked almonds
To Serve:
15 g icing sugar
150 g clotted cream
½ tsp vanilla essence
Red berry purée
Clotted cream
Mint
Blueberries
Preparation
Cheesecake: Line a 23 cm cake tin. Mix digestive crumbs, sugar and butter. Spoon over base of the tin and press down. Preheat oven to 170°C. Mix cheese and condensed milk until fluffy. Add flour, lemon juice and Parmigiano Reggiano. Add eggs and pour mixture over the biscuit base. Cook for 1 hour 10 minutes and cool before serving.
Sweet Cheese Tuile: Cream together butter and icing sugar. Slowly beat in egg, fold in flour and Parmigiano Reggiano. Spread thin layers of the mixture into a greaseproof sheet. Sprinkle over almonds and more sugar. Bake for 3-4 minutes until golden and quickly curl around a rolling pin.
To Serve: Whisk clotted cream with sugar and vanilla essence. Serve slices of cheesecake with red berry purée, clotted cream and top with mint. Garnish with blueberries.