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Cobnut, Lancashire cheese & plum salad


Cobnut, Lancashire cheese & plum salad

Ingredients

9 red plums, halved and stoned

about 2 tablespoons golden caster sugar

200g baby spinach

250g Lancashire cheese, coarsely crumbled

50g shelled cobnuts or hazelnuts

 

For the dressing

1 tablespoon cider vinegar

sea salt, black pepper

4 tablespoons hazelnut or walnut oil


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In short
Preparation time:
15 mins
Cooking time:
90 mins
Total time:
105 mins
Serves:
6 people
Course:
Salad

Method

Heat the oven to 160ºC (140ºC fan oven) gas mark 3. Arrange the plums cut-side up on an oiled baking tray, liberally sprinkle with sugar and roast for 1½ hours until golden and glistening. Loosen with a palette knife and leave to cool.

To make the dressing, whisk the vinegar with a little seasoning, then add the oil.

To serve, toss the spinach leaves with the dressing in a large bowl, then gently mix in the cheese. Divide this between six plates, arrange a few plum halves on top and scatter over the nuts.


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