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    Goats’ Cheese & Sweet Potato Salad with Cranberries

    Published: July 20, 2021 · Updated: July 5, 2022 by Ieva Greber · This post may contain affiliate links · 16 Comments

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    Delicious served warm, this Goats Cheese & Sweet Potato Salad is simply sensational! The creamy goats’ cheese is covered in seeds, nuts and dried cranberries, served on a bed of baby leaves and roasted sweet potatoes and red onion. With a drizzle of white wine vinaigrette, this is an amazingly satisfying salad to have any time of the year!

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    • Perfect Christmas Salad
    • How to Make Seeded Goats Cheese & Sweet Potato Salad?
    • Other Delicious Salads To Try
    • Recipe Card

    Perfect Christmas Salad

    We typically have this salad around Christmas time. You know, cranberries, leftover cheese from the mandatory Christmas cheeseboard, this salad just fits right in! But we also had this salad for lunch on Easter Sunday, and then again at the beginning of summer. I guess what I am trying to say is, it’s one of those dishes we keep coming back to. It is a perfect light, but very satisfying lunch, that’s great if you’re ‘saving yourself’ for a big dinner.

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    Goat’s cheese is one of the most delicious things to put in a salad. And if goat’s cheese isn’t enough to tempt you, we made it better by rolling rounds of it in toasted seeds, pinenuts and dried cranberries. For it to work you need to use soft young goat’s cheese. It has a milder flavour and incredibly creamy texture, perfect for sticking the crust on.


    How to Make Seeded Goats Cheese & Sweet Potato Salad?

    Preheat the oven to 200°C Fan. Cut your sweet potato into bite-size chunks and spread on a baking tray lined with baking parchment (we recommend Bacofoil Baking Parchment – nothing sticks to it and it lasts forever!). Add the onion quarters to the tray keeping the quarters whole (otherwise, they may burn). Drizzle everything with a tablespoon of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until potatoes are tender.

    In a dry pan, toast the seeds and pinenuts just until starting to brown. Take off the heat and let cool down slightly. When cool enough to handle, roughly chop the seeds and pinenuts and mix them with the chopped dried cranberries. Spread the lot on a plate.

    Cut the soft goats cheese into rounds with a thin-bladed knife, wiping the knife in between. Roll each round in the cranberry mixture pressing the coating onto the cheese so it sticks. Set them aside.

    Make the vinaigrette by mixing the olive oil, white wine vinegar and a pinch of salt and pepper in a small bowl.

    Divide the baby leaves between bowls. Top with roasted sweet potatoes and red onions. Then add the crusted goats cheese rounds, drizzle with the vinaigrette and serve!


    Other Delicious Salads To Try

    Other salads that we simply adore are:

    • Strawberry and Watercress Salad with Strawberry Vinaigrette
    • Paneer Salad with Mango Dressing
    • Santa Fe Salad
    • Sweet Potato Tex-Mex Bowl (Vegan)
    • Mandarin & Halloumi Couscous Bowl

    Recipe Card

    Goats Cheese & Sweet Potato Salad

    Goats Cheese & Sweet Potato Salad with Cranberries

    Delicious served warm, this Goats Cheese & Sweet Potato Salad is simply sensational! The creamy goat's cheese is covered in seeds, nuts and dried cranberries, served on a bed of baby leaves and roasted sweet potatoes and red onion. With a drizzle of white wine vinaigrette, this is an amazingly satisfying salad to have any time of the year!
    5 from 10 votes
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    Prep Time 10 minutes mins
    Cook Time 30 minutes mins
    Total Time 40 minutes mins
    Course Main Course
    Cuisine British, Christmas
    Servings 2 portions
    Calories 490 kcal

    Ingredients
     
     

    • 100 g soft goats cheese
    • 30 g dried cranberries finely chopped
    • 15 g pumpkin or sunflower seeds or a mixture
    • 15 g pinenuts
    • 300 g sweet potatoes cut into 1 cm cubes
    • 2 red onions quartered
    • 1 tablespoon olive oil
    • 70 g baby leaf salad

    For Vinaigrette:

    • 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
    • 2 tablespoon olive oil
    • salt & pepper

    Instructions
     

    • Preheat the oven to 200°C Fan. Spread the sweet potato cubes on a baking tray lined with baking parchment. Add the onion quarters to the tray keeping the quarters whole (otherwise, they may burn). Drizzle everything with a tablespoon of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place in the oven for 25-30 minutes or until potatoes are tender.
    • In a dry pan toast the seeds and pinenuts just until starting to brown. Take off the heat and let cool down slightly.
    • Roughly chop the seeds and pinenuts and mix them with the chopped dried cranberries. Spread the lot on a plate.
    • Cut the soft goats cheese into rounds with a thin bladed knife, wiping the knife in between. Roll each round in the cranberry mixture pressing the coating onto the cheese so it sticks. Set them aside.
    • Make the vinegraitte by mixing the olive oil, white wine vinegar and a pinch of salt and pepper in a small bowl.
    • Divide the baby leaves between bowls. Top with roasted sweet potatoes and red onions. Then add the crusted goats cheese rounds, drizzle with the vinegraitte and serve!

    Nutrition

    Calories: 490kcalCarbohydrates: 50gProtein: 16gFat: 27gSaturated Fat: 9gPolyunsaturated Fat: 5gMonounsaturated Fat: 10gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 23mgSodium: 280mgPotassium: 781mgFiber: 7gSugar: 19gVitamin A: 24393IUVitamin C: 11mgCalcium: 147mgIron: 4mg
    Keyword Christmas Leftover SAlad, Christmas SAlad, Goats Cheese and Cranberry Salad, Goats Cheese and Sweet Potato Salad, Goats Cheese Salad, Salad Ideas, Salad with Dried Cranberries, Salad with Goats Cheese, Salad with Sweet Potato, Sweet Potato Salad
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    Comments

    1. Amanda Wren-Grimwood

      August 09, 2021 at 5:24 pm

      5 stars
      Covering the goat cheese in seeds makes this dish so pretty and I love the flavours in the vinaigrette.

      Reply
      • Ieva

        August 09, 2021 at 8:59 pm

        Thanks, Amanda! This salad is certainly a looker 🙂

        Reply
    2. Katherine

      October 20, 2021 at 7:59 pm

      5 stars
      Yum! I love that the cheese is like little cheese balls in this incredible salad!

      Reply
      • Ieva

        October 21, 2021 at 10:01 am

        The “cheese balls” are all part of the fun that home cooking brings to the table 😀

        Reply
    3. Ieva Ture

      November 17, 2021 at 4:25 pm

      5 stars
      The best! 😉

      Reply
    4. Beth Sachs

      January 02, 2022 at 10:27 am

      5 stars
      Now this is my kind of lunch! Goat cheese goes so well with sweet potato.

      Reply
    5. Mahy

      March 23, 2022 at 5:58 pm

      5 stars
      It’s been a while since I made such an impressive salad as this. Definitely need to make it over the weekend!

      Reply
      • Ieva

        March 23, 2022 at 7:02 pm

        Thank you! 💗

        Reply
    6. Clare

      July 05, 2022 at 1:14 pm

      5 stars
      So so good. Pretty too, and low GI .
      A perfect lunch and really quick too . I had no pinenuts so crushed up pistachios.

      Reply
      • Ieva

        July 05, 2022 at 2:17 pm

        Thanks! Glad you liked it! I must try it with pistachios too: cranberries and pistachios are one of my favourite flavour combinations 🙂

        Reply
    7. Dannii

      July 17, 2022 at 3:28 pm

      5 stars
      Anything with goats cheese gets a big thumbs up from me and this was amazing. Such a filling salad.

      Reply
      • Ieva

        July 17, 2022 at 9:03 pm

        Dannii, thanks so much! So glad you liked it! 🙂

        Reply
    8. Natalie

      October 13, 2022 at 1:45 pm

      5 stars
      Love the flavors in this sweet potato salad. So healthy and delicious, thanks!

      Reply
      • Ieva

        October 13, 2022 at 2:53 pm

        You are most welcome! This is our absolute favourite! 🙂

        Reply
    9. Amanda Wren-Grimwood

      November 08, 2022 at 5:42 pm

      5 stars
      Such a pretty dish and I love the creamy tang of the goat cheese with the sweet potato. This is definitely an all year round salad.

      Reply
    10. Katherine

      November 16, 2022 at 7:55 pm

      5 stars
      What a stunning winter salad with incredible flavors and textures!

      Reply

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