This is a Mediterranean classic in salad form! Fresh Fig and Goat Cheese Salad combines juicy tomatoes, crunchy walnuts, a drizzle of honey, and a perfectly balanced balsamic cream.
This Fig and Goat Cheese Salad will make you want to forget all those other salads before this one. A simple combination that makes fireworks. Like in the Ratatouille movie, when the rat melts cheese on the mushroom with the help of a lightning bolt. Some ingredients are just much better coupled; this is a good example. A slice of melted goat cheese on a fresh fig piece! Served with crunchy lettuce, walnuts, and cherry tomatoes with a honey dressing and extra balsamic cream.
Goat cheese Paradise
They make some of the most excellent goat cheeses and are close to the Pyrenees mountain chain between Spain and France. However, in Spain, we don’t see them eating cheese in many dishes; they prefer cheese by itself. This combo of fig and goat cheese, though, is an exception. It’s a Spanish dish eaten at the end of summer, mainly at the peak of the fig season.
Type of Goat Cheese
Nothing beats cheese with a salad; it’s simply divine. In this case, it is goat cheese from the Pyrenees, but fresh goat cheese would do. Avoid the flavoured kinds so as not to overpower the delicate taste of the fig.
Fresh Figs
There are two seasons for figs: one shorter one at the beginning of summer and another larger one at the end of summer. They contain 80% water, so I slightly warm them to melt the cheese and release some of its water, giving the figs an extra kick of flavour. I know it’s not always easy to find those fruits. They are incredibly fragile and don’t do well with long-distance transportation. But if you are lucky enough to see some, jump on them and try this salad.
Other Fruity Salad Recipes
- Chickpea and Beetroot Salad with Feta
- Persimmon Salad with Duck Prosciutto
- Caesar Salad with Chicken and Caperberry
Figs and Goat Cheese Salad
Ingredients
- 4 fresh figs (cut into 2)
- 4 slices of fresh goat cheese
- lettuce
- cherry tomatoes
- walnuts
- balsamic cream
Dressing
- 1 tbsp honey
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- white wine vinegar
- 1 tsp white wine mustard
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- In a bowl, mix all the dressing ingredients.
- Add the goat cheese to the figs and cook in the oven for 4 minutes at 180°C (350F°).
- Assemble the salad top with the well mixed dressing, figs and a drizzle of balsamic cream.
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4 Comments
Figs and goats cheese is such a tasty combination, this would be an amazing salad
Those two complement each other to perfection indeed;)
This is my type of a salad! Would eat it right away! 🙂
It’s quite a popular salad in Spain! Sometimes, they even caramelize the top of the cheese with some sugar. Magical stuff!