Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to make a salad with pear and dor blue cheese? Prepare the products. As a basis for a salad, take any fresh salad, I have a mixture of leaf and arugula. Choose a large, juicy and ripe pear. In this salad, cheese with green mold dor-blue can be replaced with both sharper types — roquefort, gorgonzola, and softer to taste, for example, cheeses with white mold — brie, camembert.
Step 2:
Cut the cheese into small slices.
Step 3:
In a preheated dry frying pan, heat the walnuts, stirring, for 5 minutes.
Step 4:
Pour honey into the pan and fry the nuts over medium heat, stirring constantly until they are caramelized. Choose high-quality, natural honey. If it is thick or candied, then pre-melt it in a water bath.
Step 5:
Remove the stem and core from the pear. Cut the pulp into thin slices. Pour the juice of half a lemon over the pear so that it does not darken.
Step 6:
Prepare the dressing. Prepare the products for her. Any vegetable oil will do, I have olive oil. Instead of grainy mustard, you can use ready-made Dijon. Vinegar is replaced with lemon juice.
Step 7:
How to make a refueling? Combine olive oil, wine vinegar, mustard and salt. Whisk all the ingredients with a whisk until smooth.
Step 8:
Wash arugula and lettuce leaves and dry well. In a salad bowl, put lettuce leaves, slices of pears, cheese with mold.
Step 9:
Put the caramelized walnuts on top. Pour the dressing over the salad, mix gently and serve. Bon appetit!
Prepare such a salad immediately before use, as after standing, the pear will let the juice out, and the lettuce leaves will wither. Also with the dressing — pour it over the salad before eating.
Since the degree of salinity, sweetness, bitterness, sharpness, acid, burning is individual for everyone, always add spices, spices and seasonings, focusing on your taste! If you put some of the seasonings for the first time, then keep in mind that there are spices that it is especially important not to shift (for example, chili pepper).
Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .
Salad will look nice and neat if you cut all the ingredients into pieces of the same size and shape (for example, cubes).
Calorie content of the products possible in the dish
- Pear - 42 kcal/100g
- Dried pear - 246 kcal/100g
- Canned pears - 76 kcal/100g
- Lemon - 16 kcal/100g
- Lemon zest - 47 kcal/100g
- Honey - 400 kcal/100g
- Walnuts - 650 kcal/100g
- Black Walnut English Walnut - 628 kcal/100g
- Black Persian Walnut - 651 kcal/100g
- Walnut oil - 925 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
- Olive oil - 913 kcal/100g
- White wine vinegar - 14 kcal/100g
- Arugula - 25 kcal/100g
- Granular mustard - 135 kcal/100g
- Dor blue - 354 kcal/100g
- Lettuce leaves - 12 kcal/100g