Cheese Ball With Herbs and Spices
This is for all you cheese lovers out there! Cheese ball is a combination of mild, creamy cheeses, flavored with digestive herbs and spices, and rolled in pecans.
A cheese ball is the perfect centerpiece for an appetizer platter when guests come over for drinks, or as a tasty accompaniment for a winter evening’s card game with the neighbors.
Despite its rather bland sounding name, a cheese ball looks elegant and beautiful. You can decorate it with pecans, walnuts, almonds, cranberries, olives, capers, orange zest, or whatever else delights your heart.
Serve it with your favorite crackers, pita chips, or toasted bread pieces. You can get as creative as you want with it.
Around Christmas, you can serve it alongside mandarin oranges, dried cranberries, grapes, pickles, mixed nuts, pretzels, and cocktails or mocktails.
Easy to Digest
Cheese ball is an example of how you can balance the difficult-to-digest qualities of a food you love, like cheese, while supporting your body’s ability to assimilate and absorb all the good nutrition.
By nature, cheese is heavy and a little difficult to digest. When you add garlic, onion, black pepper, bright green onion, and fresh parsley, you are adding heat and metabolic energy to cut through the heavy cheese.
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Health Benefits
The health benefits of the most supportive ingredients are listed below. Since they are dried spices, the garlic and onion powder are mainly just for flavor.
Lemon juice: Increases the secretion of digestive juices, adds warmth, and softens stools.
Black pepper: Stimulating; destroys mucus and dispels gas
Green onion: Pungent, heating, and stimulating (the opposite of cheese)
Parsley: Bitter and pungent, heating, and diuretic (another antidote to cheese)
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Cheese ball is the perfect package because it allows you to have the cheese you love, and digest too!
Learn more about how to cook for your digestion here.
Enjoy Anytime
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