Name: Shaved pear, cheese & bresaola salad
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Serves 4 for lunch or as a starter
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 100g walnut half; 2 crisp pears blushing pink if possible; 2 heads red chicory or radicchio, broken into leaves; 100g bresaola (thinly sliced, cured beef); 140g dolcelatte or your favourite local soft blue cheese, sliced; 1 tbsp virgin olive or rapeseed oil; 2 tbsp red wine or port; 2 tbsp balsamic vinegar; 1 tbsp golden caster sugar

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Shaved pear, cheese & bresaola salad

Shaved pear, cheese & bresaola salad

Jane Hornby

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Serves 4 for lunch or as a starter

Easy

Prep: 10 mins

Cook: 5 mins

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A rustic salad with cured beef, blue cheese and chicory teamed sweet pears, and dressed in a red wine vinaigrette

Gluten-free

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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100g walnut half
2 crisp pears

blushing pink if possible
2 heads red chicory

or radicchio, broken into leaves
100g bresaola

(thinly sliced, cured beef)
140g dolcelatte

or your favourite local soft blue cheese, sliced
1 tbsp virgin olive or rapeseed oil

For the dressing

2 tbsp red wine or port
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 tbsp golden caster sugar

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal436
fat33g
saturates10g
carbs16g
sugars14g
fibre4g
protein18g
salt2.4g

Method

step 1

Toast the nuts and make the dressing first as they will need to cool. Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Put the walnuts onto a baking tray and toast for 5 mins or until dark golden. Cool. Put the wine or Port in a small saucepan with the vinegar and sugar. Boil for 3 mins or until slightly syrupy (it will thicken as it cools, so don’t get carried away), then take off the heat and set aside.
step 2

When ready to serve, shave thin slices from the pears using a large sharp knife, mandolin or potato peeler. Mingle them together with the leaves, bresaola, cheese and nuts on a large platter. Season the dressing, then drizzle over the salad, followed by the oil. Enjoy straight away.

RECIPE TIPS

HOW TO PREPARE SHAVED PEARS

To prepare the shaved pears ahead, simply submerge them in a bowl of water, acidulated with the juice of a lemon. This will stop them turning brown. Drain and pat dry before scattering over the salad.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, October 2013

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