How to Bake Goats’ Cheese Salad

Serves: 4

Preparation time: 10 mins

Cooking time: 10 mins

Ingredients needed to make Goats’ Cheese Salad:

• Four 1 ½’’ thick goats’ cheese slices, with rind
• 2 oz watercress
• 4 fresh thyme sprigs
• 1 pear, quartered, cored and thinly sliced
• 3 ½ o red and green grapes, seedless
• Freshly squeezed out juice of ½ lemon
• 4 tbsp wild honey
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Cooking instructions for Goats’ Cheese Salad:

• Warm up your grill to 400 degrees F.
• Place the leafy green in a bowl and throw in the pear slices.
• Toss them together until well combined and add a splash of fresh lemon juice into it.
• Drizzle a lashing of olive oil and sprinkle a dash of salt and ground black pepper generously over them.
• Toss them further to coat well with the dressing and set aside.
• Line a baking sheet with a sheet of parchment paper and arrange the goats’ cheese into it, spaced an inch apart.
• Bake the cheese in the hot oven for about 4 minutes or until they are heated through; set aside.
• Warm up your grill to high.
• Place both the red and green grapes into a small pan and drizzle the honey over them.
• Place a lid on top and bring the mixture to a boil.
• Turn off the heat right away and set aside.
• Place the hot goats’ cheese into the hot grill and cook for a couple of minutes or until their surface browns.
• Split the watercress-pear salad along four serving plates and scatter the honey-infused grapes around the salad.
• Place the goats’ cheese onto each serving and sprinkle the thyme sprigs over them.
• Serve right away.

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