Apple and Goat Cheese Salad

You know those times when you’re finished with your main meal and you really wish you had saved room for the fruit and cheese course, but you are just too full?

Us too, this happens to us all the time.

Why not serve the fruit and cheese as a salad?

This Apple and Goat Cheese Salad is easy and luxurious. It’s an excellent side for a Sunday dinner, or brunch, or a festive meal. It’s also excellent as a fruit and cheese course.It has only five ingredients: apple, honey, goat cheese, almonds, and lemon.

And it can be made in less than 10 minutes.

Maybe less than 5 if you are a pro at julienning an apple.

There’s a million different ways to chop an apple, but we decided julienne would give this salad a light texture. We used a large Honey Crisp apple and our mandoline slicer with the julienne attachment (pictured below). Watch your fingers! It is sharp, but does a perfect julienne cut.

Then we tossed the apples with a bit of juice from a fresh lemon to keep them from browning.

Once this part is done, it literally took three additional short steps.

Sprinkle sliced almonds over the apples. We decided not to toast the almonds, but doing so would add a more nutty flavor. Just toast in a cast iron pan on medium heat until brown, stirring often with a spatula.

Then crumble your favorite creamy chèvre over the apples and almonds.

Finally, drizzle with honey and serve.

Fine, the making of this Apple and Goat Cheese Salad takes about 7 minutes

There are a lot of substitutions you can make:

• walnuts for almonds;
• feta for chèvre;
• pear for apple.

Mix it up, add your own favorites, and make it your own.

We love that this salad has no dressing. Not that we don’t love dressing, of course, but it makes it just so easy. Just add honey.

If everything were so simple!

You can even serve this on toast for breakfast. Or wrapped in a crepe for breakfast. Or eat it by itself for breakfast.

Just think of this salad as your secret weapon, a fancy fruit and cheese course you can whip up in minutes. You can thank us later.

Go forth, eat your fruit and cheese in a salad!

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Apple and Goat Cheese Salad

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Servings: salad lovers

Ingredients

• 1

  apple1 large or 2 medium apples; sweet and slightly tart variety such as Pink Lady or Honey Crisp

  1

  apple1 large or 2 medium apples; sweet and slightly tart variety such as Pink Lady or Honey Crisp

• 1/2

  lemon

  1/2

  lemon

• 1

  oz

  chevre

  1

  oz

  chevre

• 1/3

  cup

  almondssliced

  1/3

  cup

  almondssliced

• 2

  tbsp

  honey

  2

  tbsp

  honey

Instructions

1. Julienne the apples using a mandoline slicer with a julienne attachment (The Salad Lobby recommends the LiBa mandoline slicer, a julienne peeler, or using a knife. Alternatively, chop the apple into small pieces.
2. Toss the apples in the juice of 1/2 lemon.
3. Top with chevre and almonds.
4. Drizzle with honey.

 

 

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