Fig & Blue Cheese Salad

Are you looking for something tasty to eat for dinner but you’re tired of a week’s worth of prepared meals that all taste the same? Our Fig & Blue Cheese Salad is perfect side to any meal that you are preparing. It’s quick and easy to make, as well as gives you a perfectly balanced umami taste.

The rocket provides a great peppery taste, followed by the saltiness of the blue cheese and then paired with the sweetness of the preserved fig. These sweet and and salty flavoours are then balanced out with the Cabernet Sauvignon Balsamic dressing to add to the umami or savoury taste. This Fig & Blue Cheese Salad is a texture party with all the different ingredients having subtle texture differences for a great “mouth feel” when you take a bite. This salad woks well as a light meal or a side to any proteins you might be cooking as well, if you choose to do so.

Serve this delicious umami Fig & Blue Cheese salad to your friends and family during these hot summer months for a light and tasty treat.

Recipe by Basson Laubscher Course: Main, SideCuisine: GlobalDifficulty: Easy

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

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Total time

minutes

Ingredients

80 g rocket
⅓ cup blue cheese
2 preserved fig
75 ml Cabernet Sauvignon Balsamic Dressing
1 avocado

Method

In a salad bowl add the rocket leaves
Crumble in the blue cheese
Add the sliced avocado
Thinly slice two preserved figs and add to the salad
Finally, dress the salad with the cabernet sauvignon balsamic dressing

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Fig & Blue Cheese Salad – Light with balanced umami flavours