This recipe for pear, blue cheese, and walnut salad with a maple French dressing is a traditional salad that’s filled with a lot flavour. Serve on a mattress of rocket (arugula) so as to add pepperiness.
This recipe dates again to the start of my weblog days and I featured it in my first cookbook. I wanted to replace the pictures and wished to share a video of constructing it as a result of it’s such a agency favorite. Right here is the unique picture which I nonetheless kinda like and really feel sentimentally hooked up to.
The mix of candy crunchy pears with the umami-laden salty blue cheese is such an ideal flavour pairing.
A handful of uncooked walnuts give this salad a nutty flavour and wonderful texture. Pears and walnuts are one other scrumptious mixture that labored completely with my pear tartines with blue cheese and honey. Walnuts had been scattered over these too.
Previously I made a fast tortilla pizza Bianco utilizing these components to see how that will work. And work, it most definitely did.
This traditional pear and blue cheese salad wanted a pop of sweetness so I added maple syrup to a quite simple French dressing. It’s a stunning salad dressing that will go completely with any salad that wants a splash of sweetness.
Make the salad up utilizing any good lettuce leaves you like in the event you don’t like arugula (rocket) or watercress.
What blue cheese to make use of on this pear salad?
You need to use any blue cheese you want on this traditional pear and blue cheese salad with walnuts. I really like an area Gorgonzola-style cheese known as Simonzola from Simonsberg.
If you’re a fan of Roquefort cheese, this might work nicely too.
A number of tips about the right way to make a pear & blue cheese salad
Pears brown shortly so lower them up simply earlier than serving. If you should purchase a little bit of time, soak them in some barely salty water or spritz over lemon juice. Don’t add an excessive amount of because it might alter the style of the salad. You can provide them a fast rinse and pat dry earlier than assembling the salad.
Rocket (arugula) and watercress wilt simply so that is the type of salad you must assemble simply earlier than serving.
To simply take away the cores earlier than slicing the pears, use a melon baller.
A number of salad recipes you may like:
Roast carrot and barley salad with pickled sultanas
Avocado and orange salad with fennel
My favorite salads for a braai/BBQ
Dukkah baked pears with goat cheese & honey
- 2 beneficiant handfuls rocket leaves of your selection
- 2 pears sliced
- 150 g blue cheese damaged into chunks
- 50 g crushed walnuts for sprinkling
dressing
- 60 ml olive oil 4 Tbs
- 30 ml purple wine vinegar 2 Tbs
- 20 ml maple syrup 1 Tbs and 1 tsp
- 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
- salt
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Place the salad components in a bowl or prepare on a platter.
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Combine the French dressing dressing components in a small jar and shake nicely earlier than drizzling over the salad.
It’s finest to make the salad simply earlier than serving because the pears go brown in a short time.
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