Cheese rolls – Kiwi style
Or as the younger generation call them Southern Sushi
It is hard to find proper cheese rolls north of Christchurch. It is a southern NZ delicacy which arrived with the greater Scottish immigrants.
Ingredients:
1 loaf of thin sandwich square bread
50g butter
3 tablespoons plain flour
1 ½ cups of milk (I use soya)
1 tsp garlic crushed
1 small onion
Handful of chopped chives and parsley
2 cups of grated cheese – one that melts easily
Pepper lots, but no salt as cheese is full of salt.
Prepare
Melt butter in medium saucepan
Add in onion to cook, add garlic
Stir in flour until a roux (as for sauce making) when combined as such stir in milk
Add cheese – and stir to combine and bring to boil
Take off heat and lastly add in chives and parsley
Cut the crusts of opposite sides on of the bread as in photo
Spread mixture over a slice and roll up.
(example of uncut bread, crusts cut, spread and rolled bread)
Toast in oven or toasty machine and cover with butter
I always have some in a container in the freezer for after school snacks, or once cooked cut in half and serve with drinks
Other options are:
You can add an egg, or ½ tsp of mustard powder, some flat beer
You will see more commercial recipes from supermarkets – using a tin of reduced cream and packet of maggi onion soup or 3 cheese sauce.
I have tried all of these and my favourite is just made from good old food.
My parents would also make us cream corn rolls, so just the same but with a tin of cream corn. The other one was savoury mince rolls. These are yummy too and as long as you have purchased the mince fresh, they can be frozen.
