There is a surprise in every delicious bite of this unusual salad!
The big surprise here is a big schmear of softened goat cheese and cream cheese hiding under this pretty pile of greens and golden beets.
More good news! There can be a real WOW factor with this salad; it lends itself to being very artfully arranged on a plate.
I served this recently at a dinner party. My guests were curious when I served it. When I collected the plates, every bit of the salads was eaten down to the last tiny microgreen.
I’m listing the ingredients below, but not the quantities. This recipe is very flexible. I’ll leave the quantities up to you, the size of your party and your taste.
Goat Cheese Salad
December 2, 2023
Ingredients
- Goat Cheese
- Cream Cheese
- Roasted golden beets tossed in a good vinaigrette
- Baby arugula
- Microgreens
- Radicchio
- Chopped roasted walnuts
- Balsamic vinegar
Directions
- Step 1 Put goat cheese and cream cheese in a food processor and mix it together until you have a smooth and spreadable cheese mixture. I used about half goat cheese and half cream cheese. Smear some of the cheese mixture onto a pretty plate.
- Step 2 Wash and prepare baby arugula greens, microgreens and some torn radicchio. Arrange some of the greens on top of the goat cheese/cream cheese mixture you’ve spread onto your plates.
- Step 3 Roast golden beets. Cool. Marinate briefly in a good vinaigrette. Slice into large chunks. Arrange the chunks of beets on top of the greens.
- Step 4 Roast and chop walnuts. Sprinkle chunky walnuts over the salad.
- Step 5 Reduce balsamic vinegar until it begins to thicken. To do this, pour the balsamic vinegar into a small saucepan and heat and stir until your vinegar begins to thicken. Be careful to take it off the heat when it has become the right consistency. You want it pourable. Drizzle some of the balsamic over the salad.
