Pear and stilton salad is a delicious salad with fresh pear, stilton cheese, toasted walnuts, and a homemade sherry vinaigrette.
Course
Salad
Cuisine
American
Prep Time15minutes
Total Time15minutes
Servings4servings
AuthorRenee
Ingredients
For the salad:
Mixed baby greens
Fresh pearpeeled and sliced
Stilton cheesecut into chunks
Toasted walnutscoarsely chopped
Cocktail onionsquartered
For the vinaigrette:
1teaspoondijon mustard
1teaspoonhoney
1/3cupsherry vinegar
Pinch of sea salt
Pinch of fresh ground pepper
1/2clovegarlicchopped
1/2small shallotchopped
1/2to 2/3 cup good olive oil
Instructions
For the salad:
Quantities vary depending on number of servings. Use your own judgement and preferences. I generally use equal quantities of the pear, stilton, and walnuts with a little less portion of the onions.
Put the mixed baby greens, pear slices, stilton chunks, walnut pieces, and cocktail onions in a large bowl. Add some of the vinaigrette and toss to combine. You can always add more vinaigrette to your preference.
For the vinaigrette:
Put mustard, honey, vinegar, salt, pepper, garlic, and shallot in a blender. Put the lid on and blend on high speed until ingredients are combined. Turn the blender on low speed, remove the lid (or the middle of the lid), and slowly pour 1/2 cup of olive oil in to the mixture. Turn blender off. Taste. If too vinegar-y add more oil with blender on low speed. Add in increments, stopping to taste, until it has the right oil/vinegar balance to you.
Pour into salad dressing shaker/container. Use immediately. Store leftover in the refrigerator.
If chilled, take it out of the refrigerator about an hour before using again to get to room temperature. Shake to re-combine as it will separate.
Recipe Notes
Pear and stilton salad is a delicious salad with fresh pear, stilton cheese, toasted walnuts, and a homemade sherry vinaigrette.