Butter Lettuce with Blue Cheese and Cayenne-Candied Walnuts

(from castro15’s recipe box)

Categories: Salad

Ingredients

  • For the dressing:
  • 3 tbsp. olive oil
  • 2 tbsp. red wine vinegar
  • 1/4 cup blue cheese crumbles
  • 1 small shallot, finely chopped
  • 1/4 tsp kosher salt
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper
  • For the salad:
  • 1 large head butter or Boston lettuce, separated into leaves, larger leaves torn
  • 1 apple, halved and cut into thin slices
  • 1/2 small red onion, sliced into thin rings
  • 1/2 cup Cayenne-Candied Walnuts (see recipe)

Directions

  1. Make the dressing: In a bowl, whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, blue cheese, shallot, salt and pepper.

  2. Assemble the salad: In a salad bowl, combine the lettuce, apple and onion. Drizzle in the dressing to taste, toss lightly, and top with the cayenne-candied walnuts. Any extra dressing keeps for a week in the fridge.

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