What Is Fontina cheese and How Can I Use It?

If fontina cheese has turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use it with confidence and how to choose it, cook it, store it, what to substitute, and 55 recipes to try it in.

Nutrition

Where found

Fontina cheese is usually found in the cheeses section or aisle of the grocery store or supermarket.

Food group

Fontina cheese is a member of the Dairy and Egg Products US Department of Agriculture nutritional food group.

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Recipes using fontina cheese

There are 55 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Muffelatta Sandwich

This sandwich absolutely deserves 5 star! It was so quick and easy to put together, and it was packed with flavour. We omitted the anchovies, used Swiss cheese, otherwise followed the recipe. If you are looking for a crowd-pleasing sandwich, this is the one!

Mini Spinach, Mushroom & Fontina Quiche

A delicious way to make your breakfast shine, and it's also packed with goodness.

Cheesy Baked Whole Wheat Penne with Roasted Fresh Vegetables

Tons of refreshing flavour is all in this delicious dish.

Cheesy Spinach & Mushroom Lasagna

Cheesy and delicious! This lasagna will satisfy both of your palate and tummy. For a healthier result, use whole wheat lasagna instead.

Baked Eggs & Sausage with Cheesy Polenta Casserole

Cheesy polenta topped with eggs and a bit of Italian or Turkey sausage, perfect for a Sunday brunch. Any cheese could be used but my favorite is Fontina or an old flavor filled cheddar. Similar to sausage, eggs and potato but much healthier with perfect matching of flavors. Very easy to halve the recipe along with pictures.

Chicken Breasts with Prosciutto & Cheese

Turned out well, quick and easy to make. I used pepper jack cheese instead of fontina. Try adding some white wine to the skillet you used to brown the chicken breasts to deglaze the pan to gather up those tasty brown bits and serve with the resulting jus.

Fontina, Prosciutto & Sun-dried Tomato Tart

This prosciutto, fontina and sun-dried tomato tart was brilliant. The combination of these three ingredients and the buttery-crispy puff pastry was absolutely delicious!

Cheesy Broccoli Mashed Potatoes

Adding broccoli and cheese to mashed potatoes is a neat twist. Plus it seriously reduces the calories when compared to traditional mashed potatoes. It's a great way to add some extra veggies for those extra picky kids.

Absolutely Fab Mushroom Lasagna

Instead of tomato sauce, we use milk to make a creamy sauce, and with layers of mushrooms and cheese. It's just so easy for you to fall in love with this succulent lasagna.

Crostini Di Lenticchie

Italian lentil crostini topped with a velvety lentil puree and bubbly melted Fontina cheese. Earthy, rich, and ready for your next antipasto spread.

Wild Mushroom Lasagna

Earthy wild mushroom lasagna layered with Marsala-sauteed fungi, creamy Fontina bechamel, and a golden mozzarella-Parmesan crust. Vegetarian comfort food at its most elegant.

Grilled Pizza

Grilled pizza cooked right on the charcoal grates for a smoky, blistered, chewy-crisp crust, topped lightly with fontina, romano, fresh tomato, and basil. The bold technique that beats any oven pie.

New Year's Four Cheese Margherita Pizza

Really wonderful flavor on this pizza. Light and fresh tasting. I had never used Fontina cheese before, and it was excellent. This pizza was incredible, and I didn't change a thing.

Fontina, Caramelized-Onion, & Pancetta Pizza

This is really a so great pizza, I do love the onions and cheese's flavor, especially in this recipe, they are a perfect combination, worth to try.

Cheesy Pizza Primavera

A delicious pizza is full of delicious goodness. It's cheesy, warm and tasty.

Cheese & Tomato Pizza

Cheese and tomato pizza layered with fresh basil, mozzarella, fontina, smoked gouda, and romano on a homemade crust. A four-cheese weeknight classic ready in 30 minutes.

Brunch Pizza with Scrambled Eggs & Smoked Salmon

Brunch pizza topped with soft scrambled eggs, melted mozzarella and fontina, and cold smoked salmon with chives. An elegant weekend project that marries pizza technique with lox-and-bagel flavors.

Awesome Spinach Pasta Frittata

Spinach pasta frittata made with leftover spaghetti, blanched spinach, fontina, and Parmigiano-Reggiano. A skillet-cooked Italian frittata di pasta with golden crusts on both sides.

Spiral-Wrapped Grilled Vegetable Tortilla Sandwiches

Grilled vegetable tortilla wraps with basil-garlic mayonnaise and fontina cheese, rolled tight and sliced into spiral pinwheels. A colorful make-ahead lunch or party appetizer.

Pete's White Pizza

Pete's white pizza skips the red sauce for a basil-pine nut pesto base topped with wine-balsamic sun-dried tomatoes, sweet roasted garlic, pine nuts, and melty Fontina, on a homemade cornmeal crust.

Rolled Veal Scallops with Proscuitto

Rolled veal scallops with prosciutto: pounded veal cutlets spread with sage-garlic butter, layered with prosciutto and fontina, rolled, skewered, and broiled. Italian saltimbocca on a stick.

Triple Cheese Pasta with Green Peas

Triple cheese pasta with green peas tosses hot rotelle with gorgonzola-butter, plus mozzarella and Fontina that melt into creamy ribbons from the residual heat. Sweet green peas and fresh chives cut through the richness.

Pasta & Peas

Pasta and peas tosses ditalini macaroni with sweet peas, sauteed mushrooms, and a quick tomato juice sauce. Melted fontina cheese pulls it all together for a 30-minute Italian weeknight dinner for two.

Cheesy Onion & Tomato Pie

Ripe tomatoes and sweet onions layered with fontina, mozzarella, and Parmesan in a spiced homemade crust, baked until bubbly and golden. This Southern-style tomato pie is summer in every single bite.

Mushroom, Tomato, & Prosciutto Frittata with Fontina

An Italian omelet. Unlike a French omelet where the egg is folded over the ingredients, the ingredients are actually mixed into the eggs.

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