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Summer salad with goat’s cheese croutons

Delivering 4 of your 5-a-day, this vegetarian salad is ready in 20 minutes, and the tangy goat's cheese is complemented by the vinaigrette dressing and walnuts.

  • Time to make: 20 mins
  • Serving: 2 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 10 slices baguette or 3 slices grainy or sourdough bread
  • spray oil
  • 60g chèvre (goat’s cheese)
  • 2 tablespoons red wine or balsamic vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 4 cups frisée (curly endive) or other lettuce leaves
  • 1 stalk celery, finely sliced
  • 1 telegraph cucumber, peeled in ribbons, seeds discarded
  • 1 medium raw beetroot, julienned
  • 2 tablespoons roughly chopped walnuts
  • 2 tablespoons dried cranberries
  • black pepper
  • fresh thyme sprigs, to garnish
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Preheat oven to 200°C. If using large slices of bread, cut each into 4. Spray with oil and place in a baking dish. Bake for 5 minutes, until lightly toasted. Remove from oven and spread with cheese. Return to oven and bake for a further 5 minutes, until cheese is warm and slightly golden on top.

    2 In a large bowl, combine vinegar and olive oil. Add frisée, celery and cucumber, stirring to coat leaves.

    3 Add beetroot to salad and gently combine. Avoid overmixing.

    4 To serve, divide salad between 2 plates, sprinkled with walnuts, cranberries and black pepper. Top warm toast croutons with thyme sprigs and sprinkle over salad.

    Variations

    Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free bread.

    Make it low FODMAP: Use wheat or spelt sourdough, canned beetroot instead of fresh, and reduce celery to half a stalk.

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