Gluten Free Fondue Recipes – The Best Thing I Ever Ate!

When you have guests you’ll want to make your work as easy as possible the day of the event.  Serve something simple, yet elegant. Fondue is something you can prepare ahead of time, allowing time to mingle with your guests. Gluten free fondue also makes a wonderful Valentine’s Day, anniversary, or special date night dinner. I”ve listed several gluten free fondue recipes  They truly are my favorite gluten free recipes. Enjoy!

Gluten Free Fondue Menu

Several Gluten Free Fondue Recipes

The best meal and most fun I have had time and time again is going to my favorite fondue restaurant in the San Francisco Bay Area, La Fondue in Saratoga. I once made a very romantic fondue meal, replicating La Fondue’s feast, for my husband on Valentine’s Day, saving about $175, including wine.

The meal included cubed gluten free bread baguettes (Update: I use Schar’s baguettes now) and raw vegetables served with a gluten free cheese fondue sauce.The sauce is made with gluten free beer. For the meat, beef (our fave), chicken and/or shrimp served with several dipping sauces. Then two individual plates of fresh fruit, gluten-free marshmallows, Snickers bars (update: may contain cross-contamination, from what I have read), cream cheese balls, served with a chocolate fondue sauce. And don’t forget your favorite wine or bubbly!

You can either serve the vegetables raw or blanche them in boiling water for a minute or more.

How to Prepare, Serve and Cook the Meat – So fun!

Buy one hot plate (a single electric burner) for two people. If you’re having more people, use at least one for each three people, preferably one per two people. Plug it/them into a nearby outlet, close to your table.  You may need an extension cord. Set a grilling pan on top. If you have an electric grill that works best. You can move your table up against a wall. Serve raw meat such as cut up chicken breasts, tender steak and/or shrimp. Allow your guests to cook their own and have dipping sauces such as gluten-free barbecue sauce, gluten-free soy sauce or tamari sauce (such as San-J Tamari Sauce), gluten-free teriyaki sauce horseradish sauce (see Gluten Free Chef Rob’s Horseradish Dipping Sauce Recipe), and hot or spicy gluten free mustard (I use Grey Poupon or French’s Dijon Mustard).  Ensure that you add a nice decanter of olive oil for cooking.

Dessert:

For dessert you may cube…

  • Snickers bars (Check label carefully. It will list wheat, rye or barley clearly). You can also use other gluten-free candy bars.),
  • Gluten-free pound cake,
  • Fruit: bananas, strawberries, cantaloupe,
  • Gluten-free marshmallows (Jet Puff) and/or make
  • Cream Cheese Balls (see recipe below);
  • all served with a chocolate fondue sauce. I understand the fruit will be limited to what is in season, but I thought you should have the entire list of what I usually serve. Defrosted frozen strawberries are always an option.

Gluten Free Fondue Recipes – The Best Thing I Ever Ate!

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Yield: Depends upon the portions used

Gluten Free Fondue Recipes – The Best Thing I Ever Ate!

Gluten free founde recipes for chocolate sauce, cream cheese balls, cheddar cheese beer sauce; and suggestions for serving meat and seafood fondue, and more!

Ingredients:

    For the Cream Cheese Balls
  • 1 - 8 oz. package of cream cheese
  • 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla
  • 3 Tablespoons powdered sugar
  • Cinnamon or nutmeg (whichever is your favorite)
  • For the Cheddar Cheese Beer Fondue Sauce
  • 3/4 lb. sharp cheddar cheese
  • 1/4 pound Monterey Jack cheese
  • 1 Tablespoons tapioca flour or your favorite gluten-free thickening flour or starch
  • 1 cup of your favorite gluten-free beer
  • gluten-free hot sauce or gluten-free chipotle sauce to taste (I use Buffalo's chipotle sauce)
  • For the Gluten Free Chocolate Fondue Sauce
  • 8 oz. Semi-sweet gluten free chocolate morsels (more if desired)
  • 3/4 cup evaporated milk or cream
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla, cinnamon, your favorite gluten-free liqueur or gluten-free instant coffee

Instructions:

    To Make the Gluten Free Cream Cheese Balls
  1. Mix the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla with a fork until softened and creamy.
  2. With 2 hands, roll into small balls about 3/4" round.
  3. Sprinkle a bed of cinnamon or nutmeg into a plate and roll the balls with cinnamon.
  4. Bounce the balls in your hand, with fingers spread, to remove excess cinnamon.
  5. Place them onto a serving platter with your other desserts.
  6. To Make the Cheddar Cheese Beer Fondue Sauce
  7. In a medium sauce pan, boil beer.
  8. Add cheese and stir with a wooden spoon until melted.
  9. Sprinkle flour and stir until well blended.
  10. Add hot sauce to taste.
  11. Pour into a fondue pot and keep warm.
  12. To Make the Gluten Free Chocolate Fondue Sauce
  13. Heat evaporated milk in a sauce pan. Add chocolate and lower heat. Stir until chocolate is melted. Add 1 teaspoon of your favorite flavoring as suggested above; stir and keep warm in a fondue pot.
  14. On the table, add large heavy glasses with fondue forks with different color handles so that your guest will know which one is theirs. Have several salad plates and saucers for your guests. Add additional plates for your guest to set down their forks.
  15. Your guests will have a ball. It is just amazing how the conversation will revolve around cooking their food. Everyone laughs when reaching for the same pieces, too. If you have guests that do not know each other this is a sure ice breaker.
  16. Serve with several different wines, both red and white.My favorite with this meal is Cakebread Sauvignon Blanc 2005.

Tips

If the chocolate fondue becomes too thick add more whipping cream.

If the cheese fondue becomes too thick add more beer.

Do not add too much meat and shrimp to the table. You do not want it to spoil. You can always add more as needed.

Before dessert, everyone will swear that they cannot eat another bite, but once having one bite of something dipped in the chocolate fondue they will not be able to stop! It happens every time!

Check the labels of all bottled sauces and ensure they are gluten-free!

One Reply to “Gluten Free Fondue Recipes – The Best Thing I Ever Ate!”

  1. I always forget about doing fondue. I even have a fondue pot that I can use! Thanks for the reminder and the great recipes.

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