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
Ingredients
- 2 slices seeded wholemeal soda bread (see goes well with)
- 50g Danish blue cheese
- 2 tsp 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
pairLike apples, to which they are related, pears come in thousands of varieties, of which only a…
- 20g walnuts, roughly chopped
Walnut
wall-nutWalnuts are one of the most popular and versatile of all nuts. When picked young, they're…
Method
Toast the bread while you make the dressing: mash 15g blue cheese with the oil, vinegar, mustard powder, garlic and 1 tbsp water.
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.
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