Green salad with goat's cheese

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Green salad with goat's cheese

Name: Green salad with goat's cheese
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4

Serves 4 10 min

A vegetarian recipe for goat's cheese salad with a goat's cheese dressing. This dish can be a simple starter or its own, or treat it as a starting point for a light lunch or dinner and throw in any additions you fancy: broad beans, peas, mint, slivers of raw courgette, asparagus, a handful of cooked pearl barley, cubes of cooked beetroot, a scattering of pecans, walnuts or pumpkin seeds.

Ingredients

50g soft rindless goat's cheese
100ml olive oil
1 small garlic clove, finely minced
juice of ½-1 lemon
4 handfuls mixed salad leaves
2 tsp olive oil
a few chunks of any leftover goat's cheese
bread, to serve
salt and pepper

Method

Prep time: 10 min

Step 1
Mash the goat's cheese with a fork and gradually add the olive oil to make a smooth paste. Add garlic, salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste. If the dressing is very thick add water, a little at a time, until the dressing is the consistency of double cream.
Step 2
When you are ready to serve, toss the salad leaves in the 2 teaspoon olive oil to lightly coat and a few drops of lemon juice. Turn onto a platter and drizzle over the goat's cheese dressing.
Step 3
Scatter over any of the optional salad toppings plus the leftover goat's cheese and serve.