Toasted soda bread with blue cheese & pear

Toasted soda bread with blue cheese & pear

By Sara Buenfeld
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Prep: 10 mins Cook: 2 mins

Easy

Serves 2

This simple veggie lunch uses healthy seeded soda bread, a rich Danish blue cheese and fresh fruit for a salty-sweet combo, topped with crunchy walnuts

Nutrition and extra info

  • Vegetarian

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal378
  • fat18g
  • saturates6g
  • carbs36g
  • sugars11g
  • fibre8g
  • protein14g
  • salt1g
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Ingredients

  • 2 slices seeded wholemeal soda bread (see goes well with)
  • 50g Danish blue cheese
  • 2 tsp rapeseed oil
    Rapeseed oil

    Rapeseed oil

    If you want a light alternative to other cooking oils, rapeseed is a great choice and has…

  • 1 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • pinch of English mustard powder
  • 1 small garlic clove, finely grated
  • 85g bag mixed leaf salad (choose one with curly endive and radicchio)
  • 1 large or 2 small pears, halved, cored and sliced (no need to peel)
    Pear

    Pear

    pair

    Like apples, to which they are related, pears come in thousands of varieties, of which only a…

  • 20g walnuts, roughly chopped
    Walnuts

    Walnut

    wall-nut

    Walnuts are one of the most popular and versatile of all nuts. When picked young, they're…

Method

  1. Toast the bread while you make the dressing: mash 15g blue cheese with the oil, vinegar, mustard powder, garlic and 1 tbsp water.

  2. Pile the salad leaves onto two plates. Spread the remaining cheese over the toast (it doesn’t matter if it goes cold), top with the pear and scatter with the walnut pieces. Drizzle the dressing over the salad leaves and serve.

  • Recipe Tip

    Packed lunch

    If making a packed lunch, spread the toast with the cheese and take the salad, pear and nuts with a separate pot of dressing. Slice the pear just before eating to preserve the nutrients and prevent it going brown.

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propro
1st May, 2018
Hi! are we spotted to use 50g of cheese or 15?
MCP
1st Mar, 2017
Delicious. I used dolcelatte as I had some in, and it is my favourite blue cheese anyway. I ate it with a couple of slices of homemade soda bread.
laurawd
5th Jan, 2017
5.05
Absolutely delicious! Would also make a great starter! I had blue cheese though my partner had feta as he doesn't like blue. He loved it too.
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