Sides, sauces & preserves

Mexíkó cheese salad

Ingredients

  • Mexíkó-ostur (a spicy Icelandic flavoured cheese; use pepper Jack)
  • paprika cheese (an Icelandic paprika-flavoured cheese; use any mild paprika-spiced cheese)
  • pepperoni cheese (an Icelandic cheese with pepperoni pieces; use a mild cheese plus a little finely chopped pepperoni)
  • 2 red peppers
  • crushed pineapple (a small can)
  • 5 cm leek2 in leek
  • sour cream
  • 150 g mayonnaise5½ oz mayonnaise
  • grapes
  • curry powder, to taste

Method

  1. Cut the cheeses into small cubes.
  2. Deseed the red peppers and cut them into small pieces. Drain the crushed pineapple. Finely slice the leek and halve the grapes.
  3. Stir the sour cream and mayonnaise together and season with curry powder to taste.
  4. Fold everything together and chill for a few hours before serving, for example with crackers or bread.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Mexico ostur - Papr. ost - Pepperoniostur 2 Rauð papr 2 stk. - ananaskurl (lítil) 5 cm. púrra - sýrð…. rjómi - 150 majónes vínber (Karry)