Ricotta Honey Toast

My ricotta toast uses local sourdough bread, Montana raw honey and fresh picked huckleberries.

What is ricotta honey toast?

When the temps are hot and you can’t bear to turn on the oven, ricotta toast makes a wonderful light dinner option.

Smear a generous helping of fresh ricotta (use yogurt or mascarpone if desired) over ripe thinly sliced fruit. Drizzle honey, thyme from the garden, the berry jam and flaked sea salt over the fruit slices.

I mashed the hucks (or use any berry you have) into a simple jam. Then drizzle olive oil on day old bread and toast in a hot pan. Believe it or not, 3 day old bread makes the BEST toast.

Other than toasting some bread in a pan, there is zero baking or cooking. Serve this with tea as a quick afternoon pick me up snack, for breakfast or with a glass of wine for a light dinner with perhaps a bit of prosciutto over the fruit. Try it with apricots, figs or peaches. If you do not have Glacier National Park in your backyard and cannot procure fresh huckleberries, try blackberries or blueberries.

Ingredients in Ricotta honey toast:

fresh-

• ricotta cheese (or mascarpone or greek yogurt)
• stone fruits like apricots, plums or figs
• fresh berries- huckleberries or blueberries
• fresh thyme

pantry-

• stale bread- such as a baguette or sour dough
• olive oil
• honey
• flaked sea salt

If you like ricotta honey toast, try these recipes:

• Cheesy Cauliflower toast
• Wasa toast with fresh berry Jam
• Pizza blanca
• Sun dried tomato bruschetta

Favorite hikes for scouting huckleberries in Northwest Montana:

1. Big Mountain in Whitefish has great hikes in late summer where you can pick huckleberries
2. Bob Marshall Wilderness- With over 1.5 million acres of wilderness, the Bob has multiple hikes and trails. guided hikes are your best bet for finding huckleberry spots, if you are from out f town and visiting.
3. Huckleberry Lookout trail- in Glacier National Park- take Bear Spray

Shhh! I’ll never tell where my favorite spot is for picking these plump huckleberries.

Ricotta Honey Toast

Recipe by Meggen Arthur Wilson

Course: Breads, Breakfast u0026amp; BrunchCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy

Servings

4

servings

Prep time

20

minutes

Cooking time

5

minutes

Calories

321

kcal

Total time

25

minutes

Toasted day old bread slathered with ricotta cheese, topped with stone fruit and berries and a drizzle of honey, make a quick light snack or appetizer .

Ingredients

• 3-4 slices day old sour dough or peasant bread

• Olive oil spray or olive oil

• flaked sea salt

• 1/4 cup fresh berries such as huckleberries, blackberries or blueberries

• 1/2 apricot, sliced thin

• 1/2 peach sliced thin

• 1 fig, sliced in half

• 1/2 cup fresh ricotta cheese, or greek yogurt or mascarpone

• fresh thyme leaves

• 1 TBSP honey

Directions

• Spray toast on both sides generously with the olive oil.
• Heat a pan over medium high heat. Toast the bread on both sides until the edges are golden brown. Set on a serving plate.
• Spread the ricotta cheese over the warm toast.
• Top with fans of sliced peaches, apricots or the figs.
• In a small bowl, smash the berries with a fork to create a “jam”.
• Dot the fruit with the berry “jam”.
• Drizzle the toast with a 1/2 teaspoon of honey per slice. honey. Top with flaked sea salt and thyme leaves.