Name: Blue cheese and walnut salad recipe
Cook time: 5 min
Yield: Serves: 4
Ingredients: 2 x 150-200g bags of salad leaves; 125g (4oz) Stilton cheese, broken into small chunks; 100g packet walnut pieces

By Jessica Dady

published 29 July 2007

The perfect picnic salad! Not only are these ingredients easy to transport, you'll also end up with a salad that's full of flavour.

Ingredients

For the salad:

2 x 150-200g bags of salad leaves
125g (4oz) Stilton cheese, broken into small chunks
100g packet walnut pieces

For the dressing:

10tbsp walnut oil
1 level tbsp Dijon mustard
4tbsp cider vinegar
Salt and freshly ground black pepper

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Method

To make the dressing, tip all the ingredients into a bottle or jar and shake well until they are mixed. The dressing will keep for up to a week if it's kept chilled.
To serve, tip the leaves into a large bowl. Scatter the cheese and walnuts over then drizzle the dressing over. Use salad servers or large spoons to toss the salad in the dressing.

Top Tip for making Blue cheese and walnut salad

The salad leaves will keep best in the bags they're sold in while the cheese can be broken intopieces in advance and transported in an insulated container to keep it cool. The walnuts should also be kept in a small container - then the salad is ready to assemble just before it's eaten.

Jessica Dady is Food Editor at GoodtoKnow and has over 11 years of experience as a digital editor, specialising in all things food, recipes, and SEO. From the must-buy seasonal food hampers and advent calendars for Christmas to the family-friendly air fryers that’ll make dinner time a breeze, Jessica loves trying and testing various food products to find the best of the best for the busy parents among us. Over the years of working with GoodtoKnow, Jessica has had the privilege of working alongside Future’s Test Kitchen to create exclusive videos - as well as writing, testing, and shooting her own recipes. When she’s not embracing the great outdoors with her family at the weekends, Jessica enjoys baking up a storm in the kitchen with her favourite bakes being chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes, and a tray of gooey chocolate brownies.