We’re heating up your appetizer options with a fresh and easy Hot Honey Farmer Cheese Veggie Flatbread filled with protein, fiber, and elevated flavors throughout each bite. Featuring Lifeway Farmer Cheese, arugula, mushrooms, onions, hot honey, and olive oil, this delicious recipe delivers an array of nutrients and textures you’ll love.
Since this dish is topped with hot honey, it brings a new element of surprise that makes it unique compared to other flatbread recipes. Bold hot honey also acts the perfect accompaniment to our cultured cheese that has a light, cool taste. These two polar opposites come together effortlessly to create a dynamic duo of flavors and textures worthy of the small amount of time and effort it takes to prepare this recipe.
Plus, our cultured, creamy farmer cheese is packed with complete protein and spreads as smooth as silk onto flatbreads, toasts, and more. Its high protein content and low lactose content make it a fantastic cheese to use in recipes you can feel good about serving, and its tangy, mild flavor and texture places it into a category above the rest. Think of our farmer cheese like the perfect mix of cream cheese and a smoother version of cottage cheese with a flavor close to ricotta—it has it all!
To make this recipe, all you need to do is grab some flatbread, spread our cheese on top with olive oil and seasonings, then add the rest of the ingredients, bake, and serve. We know you’ll love the taste, and with Lifeway Farmer Cheese in the mix, you can feel sure it will also love you back!
The Benefits of Cultured Dairy for Better Health:
Research continues to show the importance of eating healthy foods, including cultured dairy such as kefir, for optimal digestion and gut health, a strong immune system, and to support the microbiome. Fermented foods like kefir hold important value in this line of research due to the link between the gut-brain axis and overall health. Specifically, kefir has been shown to help diversify the microbiome, improve digestion, reduce inflammation, support healthier blood sugar levels, and improve satiety since the bioavailable protein it contains triggers the release of GLP-1.
Lifeway Kefir is packed with a variety of vital nutrients important for overall health, including bone and muscle health; these include vitamin D3, K, calcium, and vitamin B12. Along with our probiotic-rich kefir, Lifeway also offers artisan-made Farmer Cheese,a creamy, high-protein cheese made with live and active cultures to support healthy muscles and a healthy microbiome. Lifeway Farmer Cheese is easy to spread, free of gums and thickeners, and contains no added salt or sugar for optimal health benefits.
Ingredients
- 1 flatbread of choice
- 3/4 cup Farmer Cheese
- 1 tbsp. hot honey
- 1 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 tbsp. red pepper flakes
- 1/4 cup diced onions
- 1/2 cup mushroom slices
- optional: 1/2 roasted zucchini or other veggies
- 1 cup baby arugula
- 1 tbsp. additional olive oil for drizzling on top
- 1 tbsp. extra hot honey for drizzling on top
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.
- Blend Lifeway Farmer Cheese and olive oil until smooth and whipped.
- Stir the hot honey and red pepper flakes into the whipped Farmer Cheese. Spread this mixture evenly over flatbread.
- Sauté the onions, mushrooms, and zucchini if using in a saucepan with a little olive oil until lightly browned and softened.
- Top the flatbread with the sautéed veggies, and bake for 8-10 minutes until warm and lightly crisped.
- Remove, spread the arugula on top, then drizzle with the olive oil and extra hot honey if desired. Enjoy!
