What to serve with fondue night as a side, but not a green salad. Any ideas?

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deb-in-mi

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In two weeks friends are having a group of us for for fundueing (sp?) and aside from things to dip into the cheese (we will also be cooking meats in hot oil), what would go with the meal.

While I'm at it - I'd love some great ideas of what to bring to dip into the cheese fondue.

Thank you!

 
steamed edamame or onion rings, artichoke hearts, baby Portobello mushrooms,

(disclaimer) I took this off the Melting Pot website


Betty

 
How about roasted brussels sprouts as a side?

I think that oven fried potato wedges would be good for dipping into a cheese fondue, as well as cooked sausage chunks.

I'd do a tray of raw veggies as a side...either can eaten as is or used as dunkers. Carrots, celery root, jicama, celery, apple wedges, cucumber sticks, etc.

 
I've done several Fondue dinners and John and I still do on a

smaller scale now. One of our favorite cheese dippers are teeny, tiny cooked potatoes and bread sticks. If your doing a hot oil you really don't need a salad or that type of side. Your go a-longs would be maybe precooked broccoli florets and bell pepper slices or maybe a pot of oil just for tempura vegetables and seafood. Have several sauces like Spicy Chili Sauce, Horseradish/Dijon, Peanut Sauce or Chimichurri Sauce.

 
I just found these great dipper ideas at Food Network...

Big Dippers :
Roasted Brussels sprouts
Mini meatballs
Grilled polenta
Prosciutto or other cured meat

 
We have steamed cauliflower and broccoli along with bread cubes. Orchid's bread sticks, great idea!.

 
Absolutely. Must have cornichons if you want to be authentic. Boiled baby potatoes

if you can get them really small, but that is more akin to raclette. Sliced salamis, bundnerfleisch or proscuitto, but typically, the fondue is eaten on its own.

And the typical wine to accompany may be difficult to find: Fendant. It's generally a vin du pays and drunk as a family wine.

 
What Judy said, and cherry tomatoes are lovely too. As well as cooked baby red or yukon

or other small potatoes...like fingerlings, etc. Also pretzels. And chunks of ham.

 
I'm confused... Please help me. I've never been to a fondue. I thought fondue is melted cheese w

sticks to dip bread pieces. The cheese, I thought was a good ementaller or gruyere. And the bread is really crispy. I am confused about the discussion re: oil, meats, etc.

Someone, please explain this type of dinner. Sounds like it would be fun and interactive. I like the concept, just not sure what it is.

 
There is cheese fondue, meat fondue, and "fondue chinoise"

as it is called in Switzerland but is very much like a Mongolian hot pot.
Cheese is cheese--you can dip veggies, bread, etc. in the melted cheese.
Meat fondue is chunks of meat dipped in hot oil to cook. Then each diner has an array of sauces to use on the meat.
Mongolian hot pot/chinoise is meat and perhaps shrimp dipped in hot broth with sauces to put on them. Then noodles and greens are cooked in the broth for an additional bit of scrumptiousness.

 
The first time I had meat fondue (50 years ago!!) in Switzerland

they served garlicky white beans (cannellini) that were SO good. I had never had them before (hard to say that now!!).
It's ambitious to do both at the same time--is it sit down or a sort of standup "buffet"? Sounds fun for sure.

 
The last time I had fondue, it was a meat and veggies fondue, which we all cooked our food in oil

The hostess told me it was only the second time they had done it. She said the first time resulted in her having to clean the chandalier, and a wall, plus the glass on her dining room buffet windows. The oil put out some sort of smoke or something which left a residue. She love doing the fondue and the food was so good that she wanted to try it again. Have any of you who have done an oil cooking fondue had this experience?

 
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