Baked Roquefort Green Salad

A healthy festive warmed baked roquefort green salad, a perfect recipe for advance holiday party preparation and an ideal starter/appetizer or light lunch. For vegetarians, replace Roquefort with Dolcelatte or Stilton cheese.

Love a colourful, light and healthy salad, served slightly warm with melted cheese? Try this Baked Roquefort Green Salad, piled on an artichoke base with melted cheese, toasted walnuts and shiny caramelised red onions in white wine. It’s so delicious, full of different contrasting flavours and textures too with added avocado and pear or apple.

When A Cold Salad Just Doesn’t Hack It: Add Warm Melted Cheese!

As the weather cools down and the Autumnal products are so plentiful at our local market, I wanted to cook up a salad.  I say cook, as my husband refuses to eat a plate of cold food! Apparently it’s because he has no spleen and it’s a characteristic – but I digress.

So, what better to mix warm, melted French cheese on salad leaves, avocado and pear (roquefort and pear are classics together!) and add some festive colours to this baked roquefort green salad. It’s also easy enough to prepare in advance for entertaining – and great at any time of year!

Now on to the bright colours, which makes this salad extra special with the melted cheese: caramelised red onions in white wine.

Caramelised Red Onions in White Wine

The result of experimenting with red onions in wine: they make the shiniest, caramelised red onions!  They look like beetroot shavings at first glance but the taste is so different.  The flavour is absolutely delicious with this green salad – a perfect colourful starter to add some healthy colour to the start of any festive meal.

More Dishes Made with Wine

• Beetroot horseradish risotto with matching savoury macarons;
• Chorizo risotto with prawns or scallops;
• THE French Classic Blanquette de Veau casserole;
• Lotte à l’Amoricaine Monkfish stew
• Corsican Veal and Pepper Stew;

I’m Vegetarian. Can I use Roquefort?

Alas, Roquefort is not vegetarian, as it contains animal rennet.  For a Vegetarian version of this salad, make the same recipe using Dolcelatte or Stilton cheese – just check that they don’t contain rennet.