20 Goat Cheese Recipes Where This Creamy, Tangy Ingredient Shines
Fresh chèvre brings bright flavor and creaminess to appetizers, salads, and even desserts.
Louise Hagger
Our collection of recipes with goat cheese shows the versatility of this delicious ingredient. It has a delicate acidity that balances many earthy and sweet flavors and a creamy texture. It melts quickly upon contact with heat, and when cold, it crumbles into a topping for salads and grain dishes. Choose from elegant appetizers, crisp salads, and any-night pastas—there's even a cake with goat cheese frosting for the fall.
Like most traditional cheeses, those made from goat’s milk can take many forms and styles. Goat cheese can be pressed into logs and pyramids, allowed to develop a light rind or be coated in an ashy one. It can be aged for a short or long time. When we call for goat cheese in these recipes, we most often refer to the logs or tubs of fresh, mild goat cheese that can be purchased in grocery stores everywhere.
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Frittata With Asparagus, Goat Cheese, and Spring Herbs
Goat cheese lends its rich tanginess to this substantial frittata, which is offset with fresh herbs that show up twice. They're mixed into the eggs, along with potatoes and asparagus, and into a lemony crème fraiche that can be served on the side.
Goat Cheese With Edible Flowers and Arugula
Garden parties, cocktail parties, champagne brunches—these floral buttons of fresh cheese will grace them all with ease.
Asparagus With Almonds, Goat Cheese, and Basil
Simple, blanched asparagus is elevated by just a couple of extra steps: segments of fresh lemon are mixed into a dressing with soft-boiled egg yolk. Toasted almonds and fresh goat cheese add texture and savory notes.
Harissa, Goat Cheese, and Herb Tart
Puff pastry is a canvas for creative savory toppings, like this goat cheese and harissa tart. Harissa is the aromatic spice paste from Tunisia—here it plays nicely with the cheese and lots of fresh herbs.
Mushroom-and-Goat-Cheese Purses
These little bundles are filled with savory mushrooms and goat cheese—and can be made a day in advance. If you're not familiar with working with phyllo dough, give it a try, and you’ll realize how easy it is—and how handy it is for creating showstopping dishes like this one.
Rhubarb Salad With Goat Cheese
Honey-sweetened batons of roasted rhubarb with fennel, walnuts, and goat cheese make a sophisticated spring salad. It’s a little bit tart, yet creamy and fresh.
Lemony Pasta With Goat Cheese and Spinach
An ingenious one-pot concoction of melted goat cheese and herbs coats spaghetti for this easy pasta dinner. A mountain of baby spinach also goes into the pot, along with lemon for brightness and walnuts for texture.
Baked Farro Risotto With Golden Vegetables and Goat Cheese
Farro, winter squash, and beets become a filling and gorgeously textured dish, with pepitas for crunch and crumbled goat cheese for a creamy topping. Prep the vegetables two ways: grate them to bake with the farro, and cube them, then roast until golden brown.
Warm Lentil Salad With Goat Cheese
Beatriz Da Costa
It’s so simple to set a pot of lentils to simmer on the stovetop. While they’re cooking, dice and sauté vegetables, and add them to the lentils along with spinach and goat cheese for a nutritious bowl for lunch or dinner.
Goat Cheese Frosting
This tangy yet sweet cousin of carrot cake's cream cheese frosting calls for whipping goat cheese with cream cheese for a luscious frosting. We use it for our Pumpkin Layer Cake.
Leek-and-Goat-Cheese Tart With Rye Crust
Our special pastry, made with a mixture of all-purpose and rye flours and ground black pepper, adds a savory backbone to this creamy leek tart.
Olive Tapenade and Goat Cheese Crostini
This simple yet beguiling appetizer shows off the flavors of Provence in an easy fashion. Simply buy goat cheese and tapenade and spread them on crisped slices of baguette.
Goat Cheese-Stuffed Mushrooms
Here's an all-time favorite appetizer that's so easy to make. A simple pulse in a mini food processor turns out breadcrumbs for a goat cheese and garlic filling (use day-old bread or dry out the bread slices before turning them into crumbs). Spoon the savory filling into mushroom caps and bake until golden brown.
Black Bean and Goat Cheese Quesadillas
You can use goat cheese in place of Mexican cheese or other melting cheeses for quesadillas—it’s especially good when paired with the fresh corn kernels, oregano, and scallions in the filling.
Beet and Mache Salad With Aged Goat Cheese
Aged goat cheese, like the one called Bucheron, is firm around the edges with a meltingly soft center. Slices of it are served on the side of this beet salad. Save the rest of the log for melting onto crostini.
Roasted Spring Onion and Goat Cheese Eggs
These gorgeous little eggs are a fun surprise to serve as an appetizer. Though they look like confections, they’re made from a savory goat cheese mixture.
Martha's Potato and Onion Frittata With Goat Cheese
Rob Tannenbaum
A frittata is one of the best breakfast and lunch dishes when eggs are plentiful. Here, goat cheese and parmesan are added towards the end of cooking, and the pan is flashed under the broiler to finish the dish.
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Date, Olive, and Goat Cheese Tart
Next time you’re hosting, serve this fresh-from-the-oven appetizer. It's packed with flavor and full of panache. Sweet dates, salty olives, and goat cheese come together on a store-bought puff pastry shell.
Pasta Salad With Goat Cheese and Arugula
Did you get an invitation to an impromptu picnic or a summer potluck? A bright, tasty pasta salad like this can be your best friend. It's got goat cheese and white beans for protein and is sturdy enough that it travels well.
Easy Goat Cheese Appetizer
This dish is as simple as can be: Pack marinated cheese into a small baking dish and pop the dish into a moderate oven until melty. It’s also easy to do the marinating yourself by breaking up a log of goat cheese and covering it lightly with aromatic herbs and peppercorns or chiles before baking.
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