Chicory Salad with Grapes, Apple, Walnuts & Mature Cheese
- Preparation time
- 20 min
- Number of people
- 4 people
- Meal type
- lunch
Fresh, crunchy, and rich in flavour: this salad brings chicory, grapes, apple, walnuts, and mature cheese together in a surprising combination. Ideal for lunch, it's an easy way to put something special on the table.
Ingredients
- 500 gchicory
- 200 ggreen grapes — seedless
- 1apple — tart, approx. 180 g
- 75 gmature cheese
- 60 gwalnuts
- 10 gchives — fresh
- 100 gGreek yoghurt
- 1½ tbspwholegrain mustard
- 1 tbsphoney
- 1½ tbspapple cider vinegar
- 1 tbspolive oil — extra virgin
- black pepper
- salt — pinch
Method
- 1
Toast the walnuts for 3–4 minutes in a dry frying pan, let cool, and roughly chop.
- 2
Mix Greek yoghurt, wholegrain mustard, honey, apple cider vinegar, and olive oil to make a dressing. Season with black pepper and a pinch of salt.
- 3
Clean the chicory, remove only the hard bottom part of the core, and cut the chicory into strips 1–1½ cm wide.
- 4
Halve the grapes.
- 5
Cut the apple with its skin into thin strips or small wedges and immediately mix with 1 tbsp of the dressing.
- 6
Mix chicory, grapes, and apple.
- 7
Add approximately ¾ of the dressing and gently toss. Add more dressing if needed.
- 8
Shave or cut the mature cheese into small thin pieces.
- 9
Distribute walnuts and mature cheese over the salad.
- 10
Finish with finely chopped chives and black pepper.
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Sagas House