Simply Delicious Recipe: Whipped goat cheese with glazed pineapple

Follow along with Susan Hay and cheese master Afrim Pristine, co-owner of Cheese Boutique as he prepares a fun Ontario-inspired dish of whipped goat cheese, with glazed pineapple.

• 3 x 1/2 inch thick fresh pineapple slices, cut in half
• 100 gr room temperature goat cheese (leave at room temperature to soften for 2-3 hrs)
• A few pinches of sumac
• 25 mL good quality Ontario maple syrup
• Flaked salt
• Black pepper from your pepper mill
• A few sprigs of roughly chopped mint

• In a mixing bowl, whip the goat cheese with a spoon to make soft and super creamy. Put to the side
• In a mixing bowl, add pineapple slices, sumac, maple syrup, salt and pepper and really give it a good toss. You want the pineapple coated in all the other ingredients. (Use your hands here)
• In a non stick pan, set to medium-high heat and add pineapple slices so they lay flat onto one side
• Cook for about 2-3 minutes or until it starts to caramelize and get slightly golden
• Gently flip pineapple again and cook for another 2 minutes or so, or until the pineapple slices are slightly golden again
• Onto a dinner plate, place the cooked pineapple slices
• Add dollops of the goat cheese onto the plate on top of the pineapple and garnish with the chopped mint