Gluten Free Cheesecake

I've made this cheese cake twice now with two different flavours and two different bases.  The first one I made was a honey flavoured cheese cake as part of a passover themed meal to represent the 'land flowing with milk and honey', an old family favourite tradition, but with a gluten free pastry base (rough cut puff pasty) that I've used before.  But this recipe will actually be for the second one I made which was a more traditional cheese cake.

Recipe: Gluten Free Cheesecake
Special needs Categories: Gluten free, low fructose, vegetarian
Special needs explained: Gluten free, no honey

Base ingredients:

• Rice cookies
• Butter

Filling ingredients:

• Creamed cottage cheese
• an egg (or two)
• Lemon zest
• Lime zest
• lime juice
• sweetened condensed milk
• home made raspberry jam

 Method:
 Crush rice cookies in a plastic bag and mix in a bowl with butter till it holds together.  Push this mixture into the base of a baking tray/dish/springform pan.

Next take add all the filling ingredients except the jam into a bowl and mix together.  If you want the filling to be smooth then the cottage cheese needs to be passed through a sieve.  Once evenly combine and it tastes right pour the mixture into the baking tray of choice.  Then drip some jam ontop (we had a very runny jam/sauce that worked really well).

Put dish in oven and bake until it sets, about 30 min @ 180 deg C I think.  If you are worried about it burning then start with the dish covered with tin foil and remove it after 10-15 min.  Don't forget to let it cool before you eat it :)

Mini asian meatballs

These were a little hors d'oeuvre I came up with for a wine night, really easy and really popular, and now here's a gluten and fructose free version.  No more onion or ketchup manis  :(

Dish: Mini asian meatballs
Special need categories: gluten free, fructose free
Special needs explained: only use gluten & fructose free sauces, no onion

Meatball ingredients:

• mince meat. I typically use pork, chicken or turkey mince, whatever is on special.
• gluten free soy sauce
• brown sugar
• chilli
• coriander
• tamarind paste
• chineese five spice (check the packet, some spices contain gluten or onion)
• garlic

Dipping sauce ingredients:

• gluten free soy sauce
• sweet chili sauce (check it's gluten & fructose free)
• coriander
• tamarind paste
• brown sugar
• lime juice
• corn flour (make sure it is made from corn or maize)
• chineese five spice (check the packet, some spices contain gluten or onion)
• garlic

Method

Nice and easy, mix the meat ball mixture together and put little balls of it on a greased baking tray.  Bake in the oven at about 180 deg C till they look ready (maybe 20 min).  Mix the sauce in ingredients together and serve in a bowl along side the meat balls and don't forget the toothpicks.  See easy.

The meatballs and sauce could be made up ahead of time and simply cooked when they are needed as well.

If you are not making it GF then you could use ketchup manis instead of the brown sugar and some of the soy sauce.  If you are not making it fructose free then you could also put some finely chopped onion or onion powder in the meatballs.