Cheese Salad with Chicory, Walnuts and Apple
Prep: 20min
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Servings: 4
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Cook: 10min
A cheese salad featuring chicory, walnuts, apple and pear is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the root vegetable category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 80 g walnut kernels
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 2 chicories
- 2 Apples
- 2 pears
- 150 g Gorgonzola cheese
- 5 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 4 tbsp grape seed oil
- Salt
- ground pepper
Instructions
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1.
Coarsely chop the walnuts. Melt the sugar in a non‑stick pan and caramelize half of the nuts until golden brown. Spread on parchment paper and let cool.
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2.
Wash the chicory, trim the stem and separate into individual leaves. Wash the apples and pears, halve them, remove cores and slice thinly.
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3.
Arrange the chicory, apple and pear slices decoratively on a plate. Crumble the cheese and caramelized nuts, then sprinkle with the remaining walnuts. Whisk vinegar and oil, season with salt, drizzle over the salad, and serve seasoned with ground pepper.
