Pear and Blue Cheese Salad

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This is a fancy looking, refreshing, quick, easy and light appetizer which can be a time saver.
It could be served as an appetizer before dinner or a light lunch or as a snack served with a glass of your favorite wine. You do not need an exact measurements for it. Just as I love to say, make your plate and food to look pretty. That’s all the measurement you need for this dish 🙂

Pear and Blue Cheese Salad

Recipe by Sweet ZivileDifficulty: Easy

This is a fancy looking, refreshing, quick, easy and light appetizer which can be a time saver.
It could be served as an appetizer before dinner or a light lunch or as a snack served with a glass of your favorite wine. You do not need an exact measurements for it. Just as I love to say, make your plate and food to look pretty. That’s all the measurement you need for this dish 🙂 


You can arrange it on a plate, cover with a plastic wrap and keep it in the fridge a few house in advance, just put oil, salt and orange juice on it right before serving to keep its freshness.

Ingredients

• A good handful of baby greens

• 2 tbsp. of roasted cashew nuts

• 1/2 of ripe, soft kind of pear, sliced in thin slices lengthwise

• 2 tbsp. of crumbled blue cheese (I used gorgonzola) 

• 2 tbsp. of sweetened dried cranberries

• 1/2 tsp. of orange zest 

• 2 tbsp. of freshly squeezed orange juice

• A pinch of salt 

• Freshly ground black pepper

• 1 tbsp. of extra virgin olive oil

Let’s make it

• Arrange all the ingredients on the plates starting with baby greens and finishing with orange zest, orange juice, olive oil, salt and pepper.
• Enjoy!