Breakfast

Geitost-toast (cheese toast with brown goat cheese)

Norwegian toast with gjetost, that sweet brown goat cheese, melted over crispy bread. It's eaten at breakfast or as an afternoon snack, often with a few cucumber slices for balance.

10 min
4 servings
Medium
Moderate
🇳🇴 Norway

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Ingredients

4 slices Sandwich loaf or wholemeal bread
80 g Gjetost (brown goat cheese), thinly sliced
20 g Butter
1 Cucumber

Spices & seasoning

Black pepper

Optional extras

1 tsp Strawberry jam

Instructions

Cut the cucumber into thin rounds and set aside.
Lightly butter one side of each slice of bread.
Lay thin slices of gjetost on the bread, on the unbuttered or buttered side depending on your taste.
Toast the slices in a toaster or under the oven grill for 3 to 4 minutes, until the cheese starts to melt and caramelise at the edges.
Top with cucumber rounds and a pinch of pepper, then serve straight away.