Warm Goat Cheese Salad with Honey Mustard Dressing
This salad is quick to prepare. Use fresh, local ingredients, where possible. Enjoy for lunch or divide into smaller portions and serve as a starter course.
Ingredients
- 4 slices of Goat Cheese from a local vendor, of course
- 4 slices of Farmhouse Bread
- colourful mixed salad lamb's lettuce, curly lettuce, arugula, or mixed...
- 1 medium cucumber(s) sliced
- 2 medium tomatoes sliced
- a handful of Walnut Kernels or pine nuts, toasted
- a few black olives pitted
- 10 tsp honey 4 teaspoons per slice of bread and 2 for the salad dressing (choose local honey if possible)
- 1 tsp mustard
- 8 tbsp Olive Oil more or less
- to taste salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F).
- Prepare the salad dressing by mixing salt, pepper, olive oil, honey and mustard and emulsify with a fork or whisk.
- Place 1 teaspoon of honey on each slice of bread. Add 1 slice of goat cheese to each slice of bread. Place in the oven for about 3 minutes.
- Divide the salad among the plates, garnish with the tomatoes, cucumber, olives and toasted nuts of your choice. Of course, you can add your other favourite seasonal vegetables from your local market!
- Place the slices of bread on the plates, add pepper, drizzle over the salad dressing and serve immediately.
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