Beetroot, Apple and Goat's Cheese Salad
Beetroot, Apple and Goat's Cheese Salad
Serves 4
Preparation: About 30 mins, or an hour if you cook the beetroot
I saw this recipe in the Saturday Daily Mail Magazine and it tastes even better than the original photo. There are so many variations of this type of salad, which is mainly made with raw ingredients and therefore, fresh and crunchy!. The beetroot can be cut up very small and eaten raw, I chose to boil my beetroots - picked straight from the garden - we have a wonderful selection of heritage beetroots and these ones are pink and white! The dressing absolutely lifts this and with a satisfyingly crunch texture, this is a really good dish and so easy to put together.
This can be eaten as an independent dish or could be served with other wonderful salad dishes if you were entertaining!
Ingredients
For the dressing:
2 teaspoons wholegrain mustard
2 teaspoons runny honey
3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
5-6 tablespoons olive oil
For the Salad
1 banana shallot, peeled and finely sliced in rings
Salt and Freshly ground black pepper
2 good sized beetroots, cut into one inch chunks (I boiled mine, but you can cut this very small and eat raw)
2 small fennel, chopped fairly small
2-3 Pink Lady or Gala Apples, cut into small chunks
2 sticks celery, finely sliced
One pack of mixed salad leaves, washed and drained
The seeds from half a large (or all from a small) Pomegranate, (cut in half, and cupping the half in your hand, bash the outer side with a kitchen mallet - do this over a bowl and make sure you wear an apron!!) Alternatively, slice off the lid, cut down about five slashes through the skin where you can see the pith makes a join between the seeds and then pull apart the segments and tease the seeds into a bowl (personally, I now prefer doing it this way - less messy!)
A generous handful of walnuts, lightly roasted in the oven (about five minutes or so, keep an eye on them!!)
One pack of Feta Cheese cut into cubes or 100g of goats cheese (I would be fairly generous with this, so maybe more!)
AND THIS IS WHAT YOU DO.....