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!
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
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