Manouri Cheesecake With Wine Poached Peaches and Phyllo Cigars
- Ready In:
- 2hrs
- Ingredients:
- 22
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
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For the cheesecake
- 2 tablespoons butter, melted
- 5 ounces graham crackers
- 4 cups manouri cheese
- 6 whole eggs
- 16 ounces cream cheese
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tablespoons vanilla
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 pinch salt
- 1⁄4 cup orange liqueur
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For the poached peaches
- 5 fresh peaches, peeled, pitted and halved
- 15 greek dried figs
- 1⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cinnamon stick
- 2 whole black peppercorns
- 2 cups greek sweet wine, such as Mavrodaphne
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For the sesame cigar
- 2 sheets country-style phyllo dough
- 4 tablespoons walnuts, ground
- 4 tablespoons sesame seeds, ground
- 4 tablespoons sugar
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons cinnamon, ground
- 1⁄2 cup butter, melted
directions
- Combine the melted butter and ground graham crackers on the bottom and up the sides of a 10-inch springform pan and chill.
- Preheat the oven to 325°F.
- In the bowl of an electric mixer whisk together all the.
- remaining ingredients for the cheesecake.
- Pour into the chilled springform pan and bake until set, about 1 1/4 hours.
- While the cheesecake is baking, make the fruit topping: Poach the peaches and figs in the wine together with the spices until the figs soften.
- Remove peaches and figs with a slotted spoon and strain the liquid.
- Put back into a pot and simmer until reduced to a loose syrup consistency. Place the fruit back into the reduced wine.
- Make the cigars: Place the first phyllo sheet in front of you, brush with butter and sprinkle with half the nut and sesame seed.
- filling.
- Sprinkle lightly with sugar and cinnamon and roll up along the horizontal end very tightly to get a thin cylinder.
- Repeat with the second sheet and nut-sesame-seed mixture.
- Bake on a buttered sheet pan until crisp and golden, remove, cool, and, using a serrated knife cut into 8 equal pieces.
- When the cheesecake is set and golden, remove and cool.
- Remove from the springform pan and cut into 8 slices.
- To serve: top with the peach-wine mixture and garnish with a phyllo cigar.
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