Whether or not you cook dinner it till melty or depart it gorgeously company, it’s at all times scrumptious.

Nargisse Benkabbou’s crispy halloumi with cherry tomatoes and white beans.Linda Xiao for The New York Instances. Meals Stylist: Judy Kim.
There’s a reason why halloumi is the name of the game superstar of any dish it’s in. In contrast to different cheeses, this sheep-and-goat’s milk cheese is slightly of chameleon. It’s salty and simply grated like Parmesan. It may be sharp and crumbly, like feta, but if grilled or seared, its insides flip pliable and chewy, with a tacky curdlike squeak. Listed below are 12 recipes, together with vegetarian weeknight mains and fish fry facets, that show off halloumi’s vary.

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This recipe from Yossy Arefi makes use of small items of pan-fried halloumi as croutons for a chewy, salty chew that’s extra texturally pleasant than bread. As soon as tossed with orecchiette and juicy marinated tomatoes, they entire a dish that may perpetually alternate the way you view pasta salads.
Recipe: Orecchiette Salad With Halloumi Croutons

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Listen us out: Broccoli, halloumi and grapes don’t sound like they’d pass in combination. Pop them at the grill and end with a bath of lime juice, regardless that, and so they turn into. Southern broccoli salads impressed Ali Slagle to create this recipe, and he or she swapped the raisins for grapes, including an exhilarating sweet-and-sour pop.
Recipe: Grilled Broccoli and Halloumi Salad

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A snappy read-through of the feedback, or Reddit, will inform you that that is a type of uncommon recipes that racks up win after win: It’s supremely smooth, full of plant-based protein and takes half-hour (and even much less). Our recommendation is to hear the commenters who suggest doubling up on the whole lot — this dish is certain to move rapid.
Recipe: Crispy Halloumi With Tomatoes and White Beans

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In case you’re yearning hen or beef katsu, believe this vegetarian recipe from Hetty Lui McKinnon, which swaps in halloumi for the beef. Cornstarch within the flour and a splash of oil within the egg lend a hand the breadcrumbs adhere, giving the overall product a stupendous crunch.
Recipe: Breaded Halloumi With Cabbage Slaw

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On this weeknight recipe, Yotam Ottolenghi ingeniously suggests grating the halloumi over your pasta, like conventional Parmesan however tangier. And, after you’ve liberally dolloped the straightforward arugula pesto the pasta, you’ll wish to spoon it onto the whole lot.
Recipe: Pesto Pasta With White Beans and Halloumi

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This hearty salad, from Lidey Heuck’s “Cooking in Actual Lifestyles,” has temporarily transform a reader favourite, with greater than 6,300 five-star scores. It takes inspiration from vintage Greek salad (sometimes called horiatiki) and Lebanese fattoush. The fried pita and halloumi upload the easiest heat crunch to enrich the contemporary elements, and the result’s a salad hearty sufficient to consume for a meal (or a number of).
Recipe: Taverna Salad

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This super-easy appetizer from Melissa Clark is solely what it feels like: roasted, garlicky mini peppers baked with halloumi within, and served on crostini. Believe it the easiest finger meals for any collecting in case you’re brief on time.
Recipe: Halloumi-Filled Candy Peppers

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Just right mangoes are one in all lifestyles’s biggest joys. So are recipes that make use in their juicy sweetness. Two different summer time gemstones, corn and cucumbers, embellish this recipe from Hetty Lui McKinnon. And, in fact, flippantly pan-fried halloumi provides stability and a savory chew.
Recipe: Corn Salad With Mango and Halloumi

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Don’t concern: You gained’t wish to make your individual phyllo pastry for Yotam Ottolenghi’s model of this vintage dessert. Halloumi is the easiest savory backdrop for the rose water syrup and candy, spiced walnut filling on this baklava, staying comfortable in case you serve the baklava heat.
Recipe: Walnut, Cinnamon and Halloumi Baklava

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Halloumi steps in for mozzarella on this vintage Italian American dish with a distinctly Yotam Ottolenghi twist. Cumin and allspice jazz up a can of diced tomatoes, and za’atar is utilized in each the panko crumb coating and the earthy oil drizzled on most sensible, making this acquainted convenience really feel new.
Recipe: Halloumi Rooster Parmesan With Za’atar

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Yewande Komolafe’s skillet hen is modest sufficient to make on a weekday, however the additions of toasted walnuts, shallots, oregano and torn, marinated halloumi make this dish dinner-party sublime.
Recipe: Skillet Rooster With Couscous, Lemon and Halloumi

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This Martha Rose Shulman recipe is very easy, and that’s simply the place its charms start: The halloumi is brushed with olive oil, and grilled along greens earlier than receiving a bath of herbs and sumac, in case you’re feeling fancy. The perfect weekend-by-the-grill major.
Recipe: Grilled Halloumi and Greens
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