While many people often think of salads as boring and tasteless dishes, there are many ways of adding extra flavours and textures if you get creative. One tasty option is a stilton and walnut salad.
Stilton is a type of blue cheese that adds a creamy texture and a rich and tangy flavour. The walnuts add nuttiness, an earthy flavour, and some crunch.
This salad is delicious as a lunch, fantastic to serve as a simple starter at a dinner party, and is a nice accompaniment to an entree. Therefore, there are multiple ways that you can serve this salad.
This is a quick and simple dish that you can throw together at the last minute, and there is no cooking involved.
Here is how to make a simple stilton and walnut salad for four people.
| Preparation time: 10 minutes | |
| Cooking time: NONE | |
| Servings: 4 | |
| Vegetarian/ Vegan: Vegetarian- YES Vegan- NO | |
| Dairy-free: NO | |
| Gluten-free: YES |
Ingredients for Stilton and Walnut Salad
- 1 bag of salad leaves (or equivalent salad leaves of your choice)
- 12 cherry tomatoes
- 1/2 red onion
- 1/2 cucumber
- 10 oz/ 250g Stilton
- 4 oz/ 110g walnut pieces
- 4 tbsp balsamic dressing
How to Make Stilton and Walnut Salad
- Slice the red onion, halve the cherry tomatoes, dice the cucumber and chop the walnuts.
- Divide the salad leaves equally over four plates and share out the tomatoes, cucumber, and red onion between the plates.
- Crumble the stilton cheese over the salad leaves equally.
- Sprinkle with the chopped walnuts.
- Drizzle 1 tbsp of the balsamic dressing over each salad.
Additional Tips
- Unless you are following a gluten-free diet, I recommend serving this dish with a chunk of granary bread.
- Try adding some croutons for extra crunch.
- You might also like our recipe for baked pears with blue cheese.
- Add any other salad ingredients you enjoy eating.
- If you do not have any stilton, then try using another variety of blue cheese.