Recipe found from here
Roquefort Pear Salad
Ingredients
- 1 head leaf lettuce, torn into bite-size pieces
- 3 pears - peeled, cored and chopped
- 5 ounces Roquefort cheese, crumbled
- 1 avocado - peeled, pitted, and diced
- 1/2 cup thinly sliced green onions
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 1/2 cup pecans
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons white sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons prepared mustard
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- fresh ground black pepper to taste
Directions
- In a skillet over medium heat, stir 1/4 cup of sugar together with the pecans. Continue stirring gently until sugar has melted and caramelized the pecans. Carefully transfer nuts onto waxed paper. Allow to cool, and break into pieces.
- For the dressing, blend oil, vinegar, 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar, mustard, chopped garlic, salt, and pepper.
- In a large serving bowl, layer lettuce, pears, blue cheese, avocado, and green onions. Pour dressing over salad, sprinkle with pecans, and serve.
8 comments:
All my favorite ingredients in one! Yes!
I'm not sure about the bleu cheese but everything else sounds really good. I love avocado, so I'd love to see how it tastes in a salad!
And I'm not sure if I've told you this before but I LOVE your wedding dress. It's so beautiful!
Lauren
http://www.laurensweetnothings.blogspot.com/
Yay!!! I cant wait to try :-)
Oh my gosh, this sounds amazing!!!! YUM! I love finding new salad recipes!!
Sounds yummy! I'll have to try this one. I love pear and avacado!
I just wrote down the recipe. Heading to do our grocery shopping definitely going to pick up the things I need to make this!
oooo that pear salad looks AMAZING! def gonna have to try to make this!
http://infinitelifefintess.com
http://mscomposure.blogspot.com
I can't do Bleu cheese, but I do salads like this with Feta. I haven't tried pear yet, but that sounds YUM!
I also wanted to inform you of a lil' giveaway I'm doing, in case you would be interested...and by that I mean- Please enter my giveaway because it's my first!
Post a Comment