Beets, Apple, Walnut and Goat Cheese Salad
Fall beet, apple, walnut and goat cheese salad
Ingredients:
- 2 cooked beets
- 1 sour apple
- ¼ cup of roughly chopped walnuts
- ¼ cup of roughly chopped hard goat cheese
- ½ chopped yellow bell or Hungarian sweet yellow pepper
- 1 finely chopped spring onion, only white parts used
- Juice of 1 orange
- ½ tsp finely ground dried mint leaves
- 1 tablespoon of sherry or fruit vinegar (peach, currant or raspberry)
- 1 TBSP olive oil
- 2 tsp walnut oil
- Salt & fresh ground pepper to taste
Putting it all together:
- Using gloves and a plastic board dice the beets and place them in a salad bowl.
- Add the fresh squeezed orange juice.
- Peel, core and cube the apple to the size of the beet cubes. Add to the bowl and stir
so as to prevent the apples from going brown.
- Add the walnuts and the hard goat cheese pieces.
- Add the chopped peppers, the onion, the mint leaves and the vinegar. Add the oils last.
- Mix and season with salt and fresh ground pepper.