Pear, blue cheese and walnut salad

{Pear, blue cheese and walnut salad}

Preparation: 20 min
Cooking time: 15 min

Yield: 2

Ingredients

Salad:

• 2 ripe pears (conference pears, preferably)
• 1 sheet puff pastry
• 150 g – 200 g baby leaf salad (1 pkg)
• 1/2 cup walnuts
• 50 g blue cheese, chopped

Dressing:

• 4 tbs EVOO (extra virgin olive oil)
• 1 tbs balsamic vinegar
• 1 tbs honey
• 1 pinch of salt

Directions

1. Peel pears and core from the bottom. Cut the bottom of the pears, so they will stand upright.
2. Preheat oven to 400 ºF. Cut the puff pastry into 2-3 cm wide strips
3. Starting at the top, wind a pastry strip around one pear, slightly overlapping the edges of the pastry and tucking the end under the pear. Repeat with the remaining pastry strips and pear.
4. Place the wrapped pears onto a baking sheet, and bake for 15 minutes aprox. If the pear top browns too fast, cover it with aluminium foil
5. Remove from the oven, and set aside whilst preparing the salad
6. Distribute the baby leaf salad in two bowls. Add the walnuts and blue cheese, and toss to mix evenly
7. In a separate bowl, mix dressing ingredients
8. Place pears over the baby leaf salads, and serve together with salad dressing