Goat's cheese salad

Gordon Ramsay recipes Warm goat's cheese salad with an apple vinaigrette recipe

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Date Published:
09/01/2008

Kick off your dinner with this tangy cheese salad from Gordon's Cookalong Live

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • 4 x 70g individual soft goat’s cheeses with rind e.g. Gevrik
  • Few sprigs of thyme
  • 2 baby gem lettuces, washed
  • 40g lamb’s lettuce, washed
  • 50g walnut halves
  • 4 slices of white bread
  • Olive oil
  • Salt
  • Black pepper

For the vinaigrette

  • ½ lemon, juice only
  • 1 tbsp walnut oil
  • ½ apple, such as Granny Smith or Bramley, grated

Method: How to make warm goat's cheese salad with apple and walnut vinaigrette

1. Pre heat oven to 200°C/gas 6.

2. Place the goat's cheese on a baking tray. Arrange a walnut half on top of each cheese. Lightly crush the remaining walnuts with your fingers and set aside. Drizzle the cheese with olive oil, scatter over the thyme leaves and season with black pepper.

3. Bake in the oven for 6 minutes, or until the cheese has melted inside but retained its shape.

4. Shred the baby gems before transferring to a bowl. Add the lamb’s lettuce and crushed walnuts. Toss to mix.

5. In a separate bowl mix the lemon juice with approximately 1 tablespoon of walnut oil and 4 tablespoons of olive oil. Grate in half the apple, season with salt and pepper and mix to combine.

6. Drizzle a little vinaigrette over the salad and toss together.

7. Toast the bread until golden. When ready, use a cleaned out tin can or a chef's ring to cut the toast into 4 round croutons.

8. To serve, arrange the dressed walnut salad onto serving plates. Place the crouton on the salad and top with the goat's cheese. Spoon over the remaining vinaigrette and serve.

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  1. Love you Gordon Ramsay, your show is full on and boy can you make it look so so easy, great dishes, I'm trying out some of the dishes. Hope you make some more programmes. would be good if you produced a book on Cookalong. Sincerely Zeta
    Posted by Zeta Stanley on 16/08/2009 04:42:51
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  2. I would love to buy the whole collection of Gordon's Cookalong Live Recipes in a booklet to keep.
    Posted by Chris on 28/12/2008 12:38:56
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  3. I made this goats cheese starter that same weekend as part of Sunday dinner and it was gorgeous. I cut the cheese barrels in half (as the ones I bought were too big for a starter) after warming and then turned them upside down and warmed fully in microwave! Absolutely delicious!
    Posted by Jackie on 07/11/2008 23:58:17
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  4. I am now armed with gordons ingredients list for minted pea soup and al forno lasagne! So off to Sainsburys, Am not a good cook and generally burn everything. So have great hopes for tonights tea.I am sure my three children and husband will be surprised. I have found the site easy to use and actually did learn from Gordons video "how to cut an onion". Although my reasons for watching it were more about gordon "nice, long, strokes" but enough, I will let you know how tea works out tonight x
    Posted by Alison s-p on 05/11/2008 11:15:46
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  5. Loved the 1st show, Gordon & Patsy were great fun. I just caught the oven temperature by using rewind, but it wasn't obvious. Salmon was fantastic, my colleague and I have both cooked it and have brought it in for another colleague to taste at work. We're doing a competition to see who does the best! Look forward to next week - another viewer anxiously looking for the week 2 ingredients... thanks!
    Posted by Denyse on 27/10/2008 13:02:54
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  6. I couldn't get the rhubarb so I substituted with apples, cinnamon and calvados brandy what a dessert yum yum. Can't wait for Friday night for the next cook along
    Posted by Jacqueline Morton on 26/10/2008 13:05:36
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  7. I LOVE THE SOUND OF THIS DISH BUT IS THERE ANY OTHER CHEESES IT WOULD WORK WITH COS I'M NOT SURE IF ANY1 I KNOW LIKES GOATS CHEESE!
    Posted by littlechef on 24/10/2008 22:45:15
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  8. Thanks for such a brilliant programme - I nearly wet myself laughing! Cant wait to give it a go next week and cook-along with Gordon!
    Posted by Ruth Curry on 24/10/2008 22:14:21
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  9. good luck on the cook along gordon were with you all the way xx
    Posted by fiona from stafford on 24/10/2008 20:08:35
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  10. Can you also provide the prep and cooking times on each recipe? Looking good, cant wait for the Cookalong - I love it!
    Posted by Shoegal76 on 24/10/2008 13:33:14
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  11. Why the beans???
    Posted by Suzie K on 24/10/2008 12:03:03
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  12. take out the nuts?
    Posted by pawmark on 23/10/2008 15:34:06
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  13. A question to Gordon Ramsey. To save trudging around shops looking for the ingredients, how about hooking up with a leading supermarket to provide everything you need in one aisle? I'm sure with the extra business the supermarket would get they would be more than happy to dicount the products. This would make the cookalong more appealing for people with busy lives and trying to make the most of what we have in these difficult times.
    Posted by iainthefish on 22/10/2008 22:38:51
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  14. As I'm looking to cook with a small group of friends, I thought it would be useful if the price per head was provided also. Menu looks GREAT by the way, looking forward to cooking! Iv'e got carbolic soap if your'e interested!!!:)
    Posted by Merlin Henry on 22/10/2008 15:31:21
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  15. We really don't like goat's cheese, is there any other cheese that could be substituted please?
    Posted by J on 22/10/2008 13:58:31
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  16. one of my friends has a nut allergy. is there anything i can use instead to make this starter?
    Posted by nko on 22/10/2008 06:55:40
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