Pear, Blue Cheese and Walnut Salad
20 minutes
This is a lovely combination of flavours and textures - sweet pears, tart blue cheese and crunchy toasted walnuts. Perfect salad for a dinner party.
2 people made this
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 80g walnut halves
- 2 ripe pears
- 1 witlof, leaves separated
- 2 handfuls rocket
- 2 handfuls mixed salad leaves
- 80g blue cheese
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon red wine vinegar
- sea salt
- freshly ground pepper
Directions
Preparation:15min ›
Cook:5min ›
Ready in:20min
- Spread the walnut halves on an oven tray and toast them for 5 minutes or so in a moderate oven.
- Halve the pears lengthwise, remove the cores. Cut the halves into even slices.
- Mix the oil, vinegar, salt and pepper in a salad bowl. Add the witlof, rocket and mixed salad leaves and toss well.
- Divide the salad between four plates. Add half a pear's worth of slices to each plate and sprinkle with crumbled blue cheese and toasted walnuts.
