Welsh Rarebit Recipe
Cowbridge Kitchen
I am a big Cheese on toast lover so for me as a Welsh Man this Welsh Rarebit is delicious and a traditional Welsh Recipe For Cheese on Toast.
Welsh Rarebit is made like a thick, spreadable cheese sauce a bit like a Toast Topper, and is flavoured with Mustard and Beer.
Welsh Rarebit is often spread on toast then heated under a grill and it is a good breakfast idea served with a Poached Egg.
10 mins Prep time
25 mins Cooking time
Time
This is based on 60g serving
4 tablespoons
Calories: 98
Protein: 4.5g
Fat: 7.3g
Carbohydrates: 3.8g
Fiber: 0.1g
Sugar: 2.5g
Nutrition
Servings
Anybody can have a go at this recipe
Difficulty
This is a bit like a toast topper, a traditional Welsh recipe for Cheese on Toast.
Cost to make:
£3.89 / $4.92 (Est.)
Equipment:
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How To Make Welsh Rarebit
Welsh Rarebit is a traditional Welsh Cheese on toast recipe, flavoured with mustard and Welsh beer, Welsh Rarebit is the best Cheese on toast you will ever taste.
Welsh Rarebit is sometimes mistakenly called Welsh Rabbit and is a traditional 18th century Welsh recipe called 'jocular' meaning Rabbit.
Other names for this recipe include 'Toast Topper' and 'Cheesy Bread'.
Cuisine:Welsh
ingredients
1 pint Full Fat Milk
50 - 100 ml Brown Ale / Beer
1 tablespoon of Worcestershire Sauce
2 teaspoons English Mustard
3 teaspoons of Plain Flour
50 g Salted Butter
Cooking Instructions
- Warm the milk in a microwave or a separate pan, do not boil just get it hot.
- Melt the butter in to a medium size saucepan.
- When the butter is melted add the flour and mix into a paste.
- Slowly add the warm milk a quart at a time and mix together with a wire whisk, adding more milk until the mixture is at a thick consistency - A thick sauce. This should require about 3 quarters of the milk.
- Add the Beer, Worcestershire sauce & Mustard to the pan and mix together.
- When the sauce it bubbling and hot add your cheese and mix in. Allow the cheese to melt fully then remove the sauce from the heat and decant into a cooling dish.
- Leave to cool for a few hours until the Rarebit is set.
A traditional Welsh recipe, Welsh Rarebit is cheese on toast.
This Welsh Rarebit can be flattened and cut into toast size squares, then frozen in clingfilm.