Kid-Friendly Cheese Fondue

Votes: 5

Time: 30 min.
Complexity: easily
Servings: 6 - 8

Cheese fondue is a favorite among both adults and children, as it's so much fun to dip all sorts of tasty treats into the gooey cheese sauce. Your kids will also love helping you prepare the fondue appetizers while you're cooking the sauce. For a kid's fondue, simply replace the traditional white wine with clarified apple juice. For appetizers, you can prepare pieces of bread, cooked pasta, apple slices, vegetables, pretzels—basically, whatever you like.

The recipes use measuring containers with the following volumes:
1 glass (st.) - 250 ml.
3/4 cup (st.) - 180 ml.
2/3 cup (st.) - 160 ml.
1/2 cup (st.) - 125 ml.
1/3 cup (st.) - 80 ml.
1/4 cup (st.) - 60 ml.
1 tablespoon (tbsp) - 15 ml.
1 teaspoon (tsp) - 5 ml.
1/5 teaspoon (tsp) - 1 ml.

Ingredients for the recipe:

Fondue

450 g grated Gruyere
1/4 tbsp. grated parmesan
2 cups clarified apple juice
2 tablespoons cornstarch
0.5 tsp. country Dijon mustard

For dipping

1 baguette, cut into 1cm pieces (about 8 cups)
2 crisp apples, cored and thinly sliced
2 tbsp. baked potato balls
2 cups broccoli florets
2 tbsp. boiled penne pasta
1 cup mixed grape and cherry tomatoes, halved
1 tbsp. pretzels or crackers
220 g salami, cut into 1 cm pieces.
0.5 cups of gherkins or pickled cucumbers

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Cooking the dish according to the recipe:

In a medium saucepan, bring the apple juice to a boil over medium heat. In a medium bowl, combine the Gruyère cheese and cornstarch. Add the cheese handfuls at a time to the simmering juice, stirring constantly until smooth and allowing the sauce to simmer between additions, about 30 seconds.
Remove the pan from the heat, add the Parmesan cheese, mustard, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and a pinch of black pepper. Pour the sauce into a serving bowl and serve with any dipping appetizers (choose 3-4).