Goat cheese salad is a delicious dish that can diversify any menu. This product is tasty and healthy. Some refuse it because of a specific smell. But in combination with certain products, the smell becomes different. It is worth noting that many salads include beets. It is this sweet vegetable in baked or just boiled form that goes well with goat cheese. Mixes of salads complement this duo. Balsamic vinegar, which gives a note of sourness, often acts as a dressing.
Tender fig salad
This goat cheese salad recipe looks very festive. Thanks to the combination of sour and sweet colors, the dish turns out to be bright and original.
For cooking, they usually take:
- one hundred grams of ham;
- as much goat cheese;
- four figs;
- one hundred grams of arugula;
- a small head of red onion;
- salt and white pepper;
- 12 pieces of pitted olives and cherry tomatoes;
- two tablespoons of balsamic vinegar;
- 6 tablespoons of olive oil.
The piquancy of the dish gives a gentle dressing. Also, do not use black pepper. If there is no white, then it is better to do only with salt.
How to make a salad?
To begin with, take a frying pan, heat it. Ham is cut into slices, put in a pan, fried, stirring. Remove the pieces and cool.
Figs are washed and cut each into four parts. Onions are cut into thin half rings. Mix figs, ham and onions. The washed and dried leaves of arugula are laid. Cherry is cut in half, olives are removed from the brine. Coarse goat cheese tinder. Mix all the ingredients.
Prepare a gas station. To do this, olive oil and balsamic vinegar are mixed together and seasoned with salt and pepper. Serve chilled.
Beetroot Salad
Salad with goat cheese and beets is not only tasty, but also healthy. If the beets are baked, not boiled, then the juice is stored in it, it seems to be sealed. In addition, many believe that it is baked beets that have the most delicate taste and dense structure.
To prepare this dish you need to take:
- 3 small beets;
- 100 grams of cheese;
- 50 ml of olive oil;
- sweet onion head;
- bunch of arugula;
- some salt and pepper;
- a tablespoon of balsamic vinegar.
To begin with, the beets are peeled and cut into small cubes. Sprinkle with olive oil, mix so that each piece is covered with it. Parchment is placed on a baking sheet and the beets are laid out. Preheat the oven to two hundred degrees. Bake for about thirty minutes.
Goat cheese is cut into cubes, arugula is torn in half. Balsamic vinegar and oil residues are combined. Mixed with dressing spices. Baked beets, cheese, greens are spread in a salad bowl. Thinly chopped onion rings are laid. All watered with dressing.
There is still a great option for decorating the salad: beets, goat cheese and pine nuts are perfectly combined with each other. Therefore, you can sprinkle the finished dish with roasted nuts.
Very simple beetroot salad
Dressing this salad is original and satisfying. It is the avocado that plays the main role. Therefore, it is worth choosing it carefully, it must be mature. If the purchased fruit is still hard, then you can leave it for a couple of days in a dark place, and it will ripen.
To prepare a quick salad with an original dressing, you need to take:
- two beets;
- one hundred grams of goat cheese;
- half ripe avocado;
- 250 grams of any salad;
- three teaspoons of olive oil;
- a teaspoon of water;
- a quarter teaspoon of sugar;
- a couple of spoons of wine vinegar;
- some salt.
Beets are boiled in advance or baked until cooked. Cut into slices. The salad is washed and dried. In the blender bowl put the pulp of avocado, water, salt, vinegar and oil. Beat well.
On a plate spread beets, a slide of lettuce. Top watered with dressing with avocado. Sprinkle with finely chopped goat cheese. Salad with beets and goat cheese in this version looks elegant. Nobody will refuse from it!
Salad with goat cheese and lingonberry sauce
This salad is a perfect combination of meat, light cheese and sour sauce with a touch of bitterness. Cowberry sauce is generally considered a great addition to almost any kind of meat.
To prepare you need to take:
- one turkey filet;
- one hundred grams of cheese;
- bunch of lettuce leaves;
- two tomatoes, better than dense;
- 200 grams of berries;
- 100 grams of sugar;
- a sprig of rosemary;
- a pinch of salt.
First prepare the fillet. For cooking, take any spices, for example, just rub a piece of salt and pepper. Cut into two halves along. Grill until tender. Cool down. Tomatoes cut into circles.
Prepare the sauce. Lingonberries are combined with sugar, stirred. When juice stands out, add a sprig of rosemary. After boiling hold literally five minutes.
Gather the salad. On a plate put lettuce, tomatoes. Fillet cut into strips, put on top. Goat cheese is cut into cubes. Watered with lingonberry sauce.
Pear salad with original dressing
To prepare such a salad with goat cheese, take:
- one pear of “conference” variety;
- one hundred grams of cheese;
- 150 grams of salad;
- one hundred grams of raw cashew nuts;
- on a tablespoon of olive oil, granular mustard and honey.
The salad is washed, dried on a paper towel and put on a plate. The pear is divided into four "boats", then each piece is cut into pieces. Goat cheese is cut into slices.
Prepare a gas station. To do this, mix honey, olive oil and mustard. If the sauce is very thick due to honey, then add olive oil.
Pear slices, cheese slices, halves of nuts are laid out on the leaves. Watered with dressing. Goat cheese salad served with light white wines.
Roasted Citrus Salad
To prepare a warm salad with goat cheese, you need to take the following products:
- 75 grams of a mixture of green salad;
- thirty grams of hard goat cheese;
- fifty grams of orange and grapefruit;
- a handful of pine nuts.
Lettuce leaves are put in a bowl. The cheese is finely chopped, left a little for decoration, and everything else is carefully mixed with lettuce leaves. As a result, the cheese is crushed so that it becomes invisible.
In a dry frying pan, nuts are fried and cleaned. Orange and grapefruit peeled, cut into cubes, large enough. Literally a drop of oil is added to the pan and citrus fruits are quickly fried. Spread them on the salad. Garnish with cheese cubes and nuts. Refueling is not required in this recipe. Cheese itself in a salad mixture, as well as citrus juice, copes with its role. But if necessary, you can sprinkle the dish with oil.
Everyone can cook a salad with goat cheese. Now many restaurants offer similar recipes on their menu. But at home, the salad will turn out no worse.
It should be noted right away that goat cheese is hard and soft. Both blend perfectly in each of these recipes. The soft one lies beautifully in crumbs, while the hard one is easy to grate or chop. Goat cheese also goes well with beets and various salads. More exotic options suggest the addition of fried citrus fruits.
Cheese and various fruits are an excellent combination of tastes. Such salads are suitable for dry white wine and a leisurely evening.