Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Ardsallagh Smoked Cheese Salad with Pommegranite seeds, walnuts and mixed leaves

Ardsallagh Goats Products is owned by Jane and Gerard Murphy, located in County Cork.Three types of cheese are made from their own herd and from locally sourced goat's milk.The cheeses are suitable for vegetarians
I normally use the soft variety which is delicious. However for a change
I purchased this the hard smoked version yesterday. I love flavour, I think it goes very well in this salad.
This salad is a lovely light lunch or a impressive side dish.

Preparation 5-10 minutes

Serves 4

Ingredients:
1 small block of the smoked goats cheese( I used half of this size for the 4 salads)
2 ripe pommegranites
1 bag of washed leaves. I used Kildinan Farms mixed leaves which is suitated in Ballyhooly Co Cork but any salad leaves you can get will be fine.
I x 100g bag of walnut halves roughly chopped
(hazelnuts would also be lovely)

French dressing for 4

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
100ml olive oil or sunflower oil or a mix of the two
30 ml white wine vinegar
Pinch chopped thyme
Salt and pepper

Method: whisk all ingredients together

To bring the salad together
Mix all the leaves with the dressing
Place in individual bowl/plates
Half each pommegranite and spoon out the little ruby seeds, scatter half of each one on top of each salad.
Scatter a handful of walnuts on each salad. Lastly shave the goat cheese with a potato peeler On top of the leaves.
Serve with toasted sourdough bread for lunch. So simple but very tasty!


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