Rocket and Pear salad
User Reviews
5
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Prep Time
20 mins
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Cook Time
25 mins
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Total Time
45 mins
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Servings
8 people
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Course
Salad
Rocket and Pear salad
Description
This salad arranges roasted yam cubes, tender-crisp green beans, thinly sliced pears, and a generous bed of arugula (rocket) with crumbled creamy blue cheese and walnuts. The yams provide a soft, slightly sweet base, contrasting with the crunchy nuts and fresh greens. The dressing combines honey for sweetness, apple cider vinegar for acidity, lemon thyme for herbal notes, salt, pepper, and olive oil to bind the salad together with a balanced tang and depth.
Yams are roasted until just soft yet firm, while green beans are blanched and shocked in ice water to retain their color and crispness. Pears are thinly sliced to add gentle sweetness and light crunch. Blue cheese adds richness and a slight tang that works well against the natural sweetness of the yams and pears. The salad is put together just before serving to keep textures fresh and vibrant.
This dish can serve as a light lunch or a side, pairing well with richer mains or on its own as a seasonal, textured salad with diverse flavors.
Ingredients
For the Salad
- 4 c yams about 2 large yams, cut in 1” cubes
- 2 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 c green beans about 300g, tops trimmed off
- 2 pear cored and thinly sliced on a mandoline
- 8 c arugula kale, arugula, spinach and mustard greens work great too, aka rocket; or other hearty mixed greens
- 1.5 c blue cheese 150g cambazola or gorgonzola, crumbled, creamy
- 1 c walnuts
For the Dressing
- 3 tablespoon honey
- 4 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
- 1 teaspoon lemon thyme or regular thyme, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- 4 tablespoon olive oil
Instructions
Salad
- Preheat oven to 350’F. Toss yams with oil and roast 20-25 minutes until soft but still firm when pierced with fork. Blanch green beans in boiling water for 2 minutes then plunge into ice water to stop cooking and drain in colander until ready to serve.
- When ready to serve (or up to an hour before) add rocket and any other greens along with pears to a bowl and gently toss with half of dressing and then arrange on a long platter. Top with green beans, yams, walnuts and blue cheese, drizzle remaining salad dressing over and serve.
Dressing
- Whisk all dressing ingredients together. Adjust salt and pepper to taste.
User Reviews
Overall Rating
5
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