These easy and delicious cheese straws can be made in minutes from store cupboard ingredients. They’re extra good topped with a teaspoon of poppy seeds, chilli flakes, seaweed flakes, dried oregano or other stray ingredients you want to use up.
10 people20 minutes10 minutes
Ingredients
50gCheddar Cheese
chopped
1 - Egg
beaten
0.5tspPaprika
25gParmesan Cheese
chopped
300gPlain Flour
plus extra for dusting
25gSuperValu Porridge Oats
Method
Preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6. Line two baking sheets with non-stick baking paper.
Put the flour, cheeses, oats and paprika in the bowl of a food processor and blitz until well incorporated. Add the butter and blitz until it all comes together into a dough.
Roll out the dough on a floured surface, forming a rectangle about 1cm thick. Slice into 1cm sticks and place on the lined baking sheets. Brush the straws with the beaten egg and bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until golden.