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.
Serves: 2
Time to make: 20 mins
Total cost: $7.90 / $3.95 per serve
(at time of publication)
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
Instructions
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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Nutrition Info (per serve)
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Calories 441cal
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Kilojoules 1850kJ
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Protein 14g
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Total fat 25g
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–Saturated fat 6g
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Carbohydrates 40g
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–Sugars 18g
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Dietary fibre 8g
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Sodium 480mg
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Calcium 280mg
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Iron 2.5mg
Note: This nutrition analysis is a guide only. Nutrition composition will vary depending on the exact ingredients used. See our guides on your optimal daily nutrition intake, and supermarket shopping.
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