Garlic Pepper Jack Cheese Sticks

Delicious cheese abound!


Here, I'll detail more a haphazard experiment than a real recipe. I looked online for a few mozzarella stick recipes and piled a few together to make these delicious beauties.

-powdered garlic or garlic salt
-pepper
-pepper jack cheese in block form
-bread
-egg
-milk
-vegetable oil


To make the bread crumbs, I baked 6 pieces of bread at 225 for about 15 minutes until they were quite crispy. To crumble 'em up, use a knife to cut them into smaller pieces, then put a paper towel on them and pound them--with your fists or equally useful bludgeoning device. A blender would also work. I added powdered garlic, salt, and pepper.


Moving on, cut the pepper jack cheese into your preferred shape. I did little rectangular prisms, but it might be fun to do stars or dinosaurs.

Whisk the egg with milk, at a ratio of about 1/4 cup of milk per egg. 2 eggs and 1/2 cup of milk coated 12 cheese sticks.

Dip the cheese in the egg then roll it around in the bread crumbs. Do this twice for each cheese stick to get good coverage.


Pre-frozen goodie gumdrops.

Freeze those suckers for 2 hours, or 1.5 hours because you're really hankering to eat some cheese sticks.

Heat the vegetable oil on medium-high and fry the frozen cheese sticks for about 30 seconds each side. You might want to keep your oven on low and store them in there while you're frying the next few, since they get cold quickly.

I served them with some chilled Newman's sweet garlic and roasted pepper pasta sauce, but other ideas: plum sauce, raspberry sauce, or the standard barbeque/ranch.