Pear, Walnut and Blue Cheese Salad

A friend recently asked me why I did not post all my salad recipes on my blog and I realised that I often put salads together just based on what I have on hand or that my favourite salad combos are too simple. So I’m trying to make more of an effort to post them up. This pear, walnut & blue cheese salad is a very simple (not original) salad combination of 4 main ingredients – lettuce, pear, walnuts and blue cheese. I love thinly sliced pears in salads. The crisp sweet bite of pear adds a nice texture and balance to the creamy blue cheese.

Pear, Walnut and Blue Cheese Salad

PEAR, WALNUT & BLUE CHEESE SALAD

• 2 small heads of butter lettuce (rocket is also great)
• 1 firm packham pear
• 50gm blue cheese (leave out if you can’t have cheese and add some extra nuts or seeds)
• Handful of walnuts (buy on iherb or amazon)
• Sea salt (buy on iherb or amazon)
• Olive oil
• Apple cider vinegar (buy on iherb or amazon) or lemon juice or balsamic vinegar

• Wash and spin dry lettuce, place on serving bowl

Add lettuce

• Thinly slice pear lengthways using a mandolin, lightly mixed through lettuce

Add thinly sliced pear

• Crumble or slice the blue cheese and scatter over salad

Add blue cheese

• Scatter the walnuts over the salad

Add Walnuts

• Sprinkle about 1/2 tsp sea salt, then drizzle about 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil and 1 tbsp of vinegar or lemon juice.
• Toss lightly, taste and adjust if required.

Pear, Walnut and Blue Cheese Salad