Say the word halloumi around other people and pretty much all of them will say, “I love halloumi” and then lick their lips. Well, I count myself as one of those people and I’ve got news for you. Rosemary and garlic butter halloumi takes your squeaky cheese to a whole other glorious level. Let’s be frank, shove some garlic butter on anything and it’s instantly better. Note – ‘anything’ does not include bruises or grazes, missing wall or floor grout or use as shampoo and face cream; shoving garlic butter in any of those places will be of no help to you whatsoever. Delicious, full fat, dripping in butter, full of flavour is what we’re looking for here, those of a healthy disposition look away now.
Ingredients
You will need for two (yes, I am that greedy):
- A big knob of salted butter
- 2 large garlic cloves
- 1 halloumi block, sliced
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
Method
Put the butter into a small bowl and crush the garlic in. Beat the garlic into the butter so it’s evenly distributed; I find this helps the garlic flavour to be more consistent.
Heat a large non-stick frying pan or griddle on a medium heat and add the halloumi and rosemary. Dry fry until lightly golden on one side then flip the halloumi over.
Once the halloumi is lightly golden on the other side add the garlic butter and mix everything together so all the cheese gets well coated. Don’t worry if the cheese breaks up a bit at this stage.
Serve with salad, or as I did, with some rosemary roasted vegetables.
Adding the rosemary to the halloumi while it fries means the rosemary flavour infuses really well but stays quite subtle. The salty halloumi and salted butter make for quite a sodium heavy meal so you won’t need to add any salt to whatever you serve it with. The roasted veg mix I served it with (courgette, onion and pepper) was a really lovely sweet flavour to have alongside the garlicky buttery halloumi. If you thought halloumi couldn’t get any better, just wait until you try this.
This sounds amazing! I keep meaning to pick up some halloumi to grill, and now I want to just cover it in this rosemary and garlic butter, too. Excellent flavors!!
I’m one of “I love halloumi” crowd too ? Squeaky cheese and garlic butter sounds like my idea of heaven. Tasty little recipe. x
Love your halloumi recipes Caroline, I could easily make a meal out of this!!!
I have never had halloumi…this looks so delicious with garlic and rosemary.
I have to disagree with you on the use of garlic butter on one of your options!
I regularly spread garlic butter on my head to encourage hair growth!
Results at this stage are not fantastic, but the shine and odours given off do attract some insect interest and comments from the general public.
This sounds delicious and has given me a great idea for starters this Sunday as I am doing a heavy main course 🙂
This is awesome! Not only is it gorgeous visually but sounds like the perfect outdoor dining snack. I’ve never tried halloumi but it really must be time.
Just had halloumi for lunch the other day over arugula. Love the stuff, too! Garlic and basil is what I did, along with tomatoes and onion. Total yum anyway you make it!
Oh Lordy this looks so good! You know sometimes there is nothing that can replace butter I love the idea of infusing rosemary with the halloumi bet this tastes great.
Oh wow, yeap that took halloumi to the next level, looks amazing.
This flavorful halloumi looks so delish. Infusing rosemary with the halloumi sounds like a great idea. I am sure I will love this.
Oh my, my mouth started watering just reading the recipe title, this sounds absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
I love your caveat about where not to shove your garlic rosemary butter! I, too, am a halloumi fan!
Lordy this looks good! I’m one of those people who say they love halloumi. I also love it with honey drizzled on it 🙂
Oh la la…I love goat and sheep cheese. This must be a delight with garlic and rosemary. Perfect on a slice of rustic bread from our mountains. This is a beautiful discovery. To do this weekend. Thank you, lovely 🙂
i’ve only had halloumi a handful of times but i really like it, and i LOVE rosemary! i just learned that it’s supposed to help with memory, so…bonus! 🙂
i’ve never had halloumi!! (and i claim that i love food…). but you had me at rosemary and garlic butter, and i love cheese, so there’s no way this could be bad (: i’ve had garlic ice cream before, which wasn’t bad, so i’d wager that this butter might even be okay on some vanilla ice cream.
This is perfect timing. I just found some halloumi at my local store and will try your recipe tonight 🙂
This would totally take halloumi to the next level. I’ll definitely be giving this a go!