🥗 Baked Goat Cheese Salad with Croutons and Cherry Tomatoes
A light and flavorful gourmet salad, perfect for a summer lunch or an elegant appetizer 🧄🍅🍷
Introduction
Fresh, rich, and with an extra touch of flavor: this baked goat cheese salad is a dish that wins you over at first bite. Perfect as a refined appetizer or as a light main dish, it combines the crunchiness of croutons made from sliced bread with the creaminess of baked goat cheese with Grana Grosino, all on a bed of mixed greens dressed with a drizzle of oil and balsamic vinegar. A simple dish, but with style! 😍
📝 Ingredients (for 4 people)
- 4 goat cheeses of 100 g
- 200 g of mixed greens (mesclun, arugula, chicory, valerian)
- 2 slices of sliced bread
- 40 g of Grana Grosino grated
- 4 cherry tomatoes
- Extra virgin olive oil to taste
- Balsamic vinegar to taste
- Salt to taste
👩🍳 Step-by-step preparation
- Wash and thoroughly dry the mixed greens.
- Cut the sliced bread into cubes and sauté it in a pan with a drizzle of oil until golden croutons are obtained.
- Cut the goat cheese maintaining a thickness of about 1.5 cm for each slice.
- Place the goat cheese on a baking tray lined with parchment paper, sprinkle with Grana Grosino and broil until golden.
- Meanwhile, cut the cherry tomatoes into wedges.
- Compose the plates: create a base with the greens, add the croutons, the cherry tomatoes, a pinch of salt, EVO oil, and a few drops of balsamic vinegar.
- Place the baked goat cheese on top and serve immediately, still warm.
💡 Extra tips
- If you want a more intense flavor, you can add chopped walnuts or toasted seeds.
- Also great with a final sprinkle of freshly ground black pepper.
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