These goat cheese honey stuffed plums are a sweet, cute and easy summer appetizer or snack.
You know these stuffed plums are legit when you open the fridge at 10pm for a quick snack because your 1.5 egg and swiss chard scramble for dinner kept you full for approximately 1 hour after a death by burpees crossfit class and you pick these instead of the chocolate glazed donuts.
Seriously, that happened.
I don’t even know who I am anymore.
All I know is that my quads are scaaah-reaming and it’s only been 2 hours and 3 minutes (as I type this) since the class ended. Front squats + burpees. Who knew 2 moves could hurt so bad?
The weird part?
I’m hooked. Totally. Like paid for the rest of the “On-Ramp” classes before I even left kind of hooked. It’s funny how $50, $60, $70 for a regular gym membership always seemed like wasted money to me and I’d much rather just work out at home in my basement, yet I forked over $100+ without any hesitation for someone to tell me to do burpees until I physically couldn’t move anymore.
Before the class started I had to fill out some forms and waivers. You know, the basic stuff, I will not sue you if I get hurt, how much I weigh, height, fitness level, blah blah blah and then there was the food question…a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being “health nut” and 1 being “couch potato”. I circled 8.
I’d like to at least think I’m not an obsessive 10, but at the same time, I’m already internally freaking out about the fact that I have to attend a local work conference today and I know the lunch is going to be crap.
Between that and the late night fridge decision of goat cheese honey stuffed plums, I’m thinking a “9” would’ve been a bit more truthful. I guess if I have to be any sort of “nut” though, I’ll take the health one.
While I guess I could’ve made plum juice, sugar plums like these are the perfect size for stuffing and becoming a one to two bite appetizer or snack. Regular plums, or any other stone fruit, can also be used, you’ll just be satisfied with one rather than like five.
Goat Cheese and Honey Stuffed Plums
Ingredients
- 6 sugar plums, or 4 regular plums, sliced in half and pits removed
- 2 ounces goat cheese
- 1 teaspoon honey, plus more for garnish
- 3 leaves basil, chopped and divided
- 1/2 tablespoon pine nuts, toasted
Instructions
- Combine goat cheese, 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 leaf of chopped basil in a small bowl and mix together with a spoon.
- Spoon cheese mixture into the well of each plum half.
- Top with toasted pine nuts and remaining basil.
- Drizzle more honey on top before serving.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Gina Matsoukas is an AP syndicated writer. She is the founder, photographer and recipe developer of Running to the Kitchen — a food website focused on providing healthy, wholesome recipes using fresh and seasonal ingredients. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets both digital and print, including MSN, Huffington post, Buzzfeed, Women’s Health and Food Network.
Oh I’d LOVE to do this with peaches!!
I think we might be the same person. Or we are on some weird same wave length thing b/c I too posted a fruit and goat cheese combo today!! Twinsies!
Looks perfect! I’d eat this for dinner. Totes.
Yum! What a good variation on the apricots I made last week!
ahh, you’re right! I just went back to look at the recipe and didn’t realize how similar they were. Your apricots must’ve subconsciously stayed in my head ;) Now I want to try apricots, I think they’re coming soon from the CSA too :)
my sister is a crossfit instructor and had me do a really simple workout last saturday that KILLED ME. i stretched and walked off like my legs weren’t dying, but that was all just to save face. ouch! i just wish i’d had some plums to drown my sorrows in :)
haha, yeah I tried to keep an “I can handle this workout no problem” type of attitude and face on but I got in the car and basically wanted to die.
Hey – when you find a workout that you enjoy and pushes you, you’ll pay whatever right? Kind of like finding the perfect pair of jeans or bathing suit. ;)
And – you know the way to my heart with this recipe! YUM!
Even though I hate the pain and soreness I feel post intense workout, I kinda love it at the same time. hurts so good! Hope your quads feel better soon.
And with this recipe, you had me sold at goat cheese! Plums are my dad’s favorite. And he loves goat cheese almost* as much as I do. ;) I have a feeling he’d be in heaven if I made this snack for us when I visit him in a few weeks. Thanks for the recipe Gina!
You are an effin’ rock star!! I’ve been doing my X-circuiting the last few weeks and I told Ben that I will happily cut out $100 every month from some other budget if it means I can keep going well after the wedding. It slays me every time, but if I die THAT happy after doing burpees, mountain climbers and bosu split jumps – that’s okay by me.
*Moment of ass kissing* You’re seriously inspirational, Gina. Thanks. *Moment of ass kissing over*
Aw, thanks lady :) You’re kicking some serious butt in those workouts just looking at your IG pics. I wish we lived closer than 2500 miles apart and we could rock these workouts together!
I have plums and basil. must go pick up goat cheese. (I need to anyways to try Nutmeg Nanny’s squash pancakes) ;)
Nice job on the crossfit. Paying someone to be tortured. Nice. Haha. I am about to do the same. But thus far have been doing Spartan WODs in my living room.
Death by Burpees. what a class to walk into. I’m not a big fan of burpees. I may have walked out. haha.
I’ve been eyeing those pancakes too since I saw them the other day. I’ve never wished for zucchini so much in my life!
Even though I don’t eat dairy, these look really good! Maybe I can try them with a tofu ricotta or something…
You’re making me want to try Crossfit – as much as I despise burpees! My gym membership is pricey though ($90/mo), so I don’t think it’s in my budget, but I completely agree about having someone tell you to do burbees, jumping jacks, whatever until you just completely collapse – it’s so much more fun to me (in a sick way, I suppose) than working out on my own!
I bet these would be great with a slightly sweetened tofu “cheese” mixture! Let me know if you try something along those lines, I’m curious now.
It is pricey. The way I look at it is I’d much rather cut back on other spending areas of “entertainment” than have to budget myself when it comes to food & fitness. I pretty much buy/do what I want in those two areas and it seems to work out in the end for me. It’s a sick obsession ;)
Where did you find sugar plums?? I didn’t know those were actually a fruit, I always assumed they were some sort of Christmas cookie concoction!! These look gorgeous and yummy – I’m kind of thinking of throwing a summer cocktail party now simply so I can serve these as apps!
They were part of my CSA box for the week. At first I thought they were just smaller regular plums but then the girl at the CSA called them sugar plums and I had the same reaction as you, had no idea they weren’t just a made up Christmas thing! haha Regular plums will work just fine though :)