Description
With avocados and honey balsamic vinaigrette, this pistachio strawberry goat cheese salad is the best combination of savory with a little bit sweet.
Ingredients
- For goat cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 cup finely chopped raw shelled pistachios
- 2–4 ounce goat cheese logs, sliced into 1/4-inch thick rounds
- For vinaigrette
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- For salad
- 5 ounces baby kale or spinach
- 8 ounces strawberries, hulled and halved or quartered
- 1 avocado, diced
- 1 small red onion finely sliced
- 1/4 cup finely chopped raw shelled pistachios
- 1 tablespoon minced chives
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and water. Dip the goat cheese rounds into the egg mixture and then into the pistachios, coating the cheese with nuts on all sides. Place the goat cheese on the prepared sheet pan and bake for 7 minutes. Cool for 15 minutes.
- While the goat cheese rounds are baking, make the vinaigrette. Combine the honey, garlic, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper in a small bowl. Whisk in the olive oil.
- In a large bowl, combine the baby kale, strawberries, avocado, red onions, chopped pistachios and chives. Drizzle with balsamic vinaigrette.
- Plate the salad and top with goat cheese rounds.
I have not made it yet but recipe asks for 5 ounces of spinach or baby Kale (or). Then 8 ounces of strawberries.
I can see a cup of strawberries but just over a 1/2 of greens. Am I reading this wrong.
Hi Eva. The recipe calls for 5 ounces of greens, which is one of those plastic clam shell salad containers you find at the grocery. For strawberries, you need a half pound (or 8 ounces). Then hull the berries and halve or quarter them before you toss them in the salad.
This salad is so good! I made it for my guests and they were really impressed. Thank you! We need more delicious salads in our lives.
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I’m so glad everyone enjoyed it!!!
This salad was incredibly delicious. I did not use the oven at all – I just added crumbled goat cheese and honey roasted pistachios at the end separately.
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Love this salad! Made to many pistachio crusted goat cheese rounds the first time, so I froze them in a zip lock. They are rich, so I took out (2) for tonight’s dinner. We each had one on our salad & I added roasted chicken for additional protein. I am typically a strawberry fan when blended in a smoothie. However, the strawberries in this salad with balsamic is absolutely Delicious!
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My husband & I loved this recipe! He said it tasted like a restaurant meal. Absolutlely delicious & will be a great meal for summer dinners. I added grilled shrimp!
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