Sweet and salty cheesecake with cherries and crumble

Name: Sweet and salty cheesecake with cherries and crumble
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 100 g feta; 300 g full-fat cream cheese; 40 g caster sugar; 1 pc lemon zest; 130 ml double cream; 90 g blackberries; 2 tbsp olive oil; 100 g blanched almonds; 50 g unsalted butter; 50 g wholemeal flour; 25 g plain flour; 50 g brown sugar; 1 tbsp black sesame seeds; ¼ tsp salt; 600 g frozen pitted cherries; 90 g caster sugar; 4 pc star anise; 4 pc orange skin; 4 tbsp orange liqueur

A creamy feta cheesecake layered with spiced cherry compote and an almond-sesame crumble, finished with fresh blackberries and a light olive-oil drizzle.

40 min 470 kcal/serving serves 10

470kcal7gprotein44gcarbs29gfat

Yotam OttolenghiView the original on ottolenghi.co.uk More from Yotam Ottolenghi on Mello

🧀feta

🧀full-fat cream cheese

🍬caster sugar

🍋lemon zest

🥛double cream

🫐blackberries

🫒olive oil

🥜blanched almonds

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About Yotam Ottolenghi

Chef, restaurateur and bestselling food writer.

Yotam Ottolenghi is an Israeli-born British chef, restaurateur, and bestselling food writer renowned for revitalizing vegetarian and Middle Eastern cuisine. Based in London, he co-owns multiple acclaimed delis and restaurants and is celebrated for his vibrant, vegetable-forward recipes that feature bold, complex spice combinations.

His food relies heavily on vibrant, vegetable-forward elements layered with contrasting sweet, sour, and savory flavors. Though his earlier, elaborate recipes are sometimes playfully noted for requiring many ingredients, later works focus on accessibility and streamlined home cooking.

Ten recipes on Mello, imported from ottolenghi.co.uk, mostly Middle Eastern and Italian.