Arugula Goat Cheese Salad • Kath Eats

This arugula goat cheese salad recipe is nice as a facet salad or a important dish when topped with shrimp, hen or salmon. 

Arugula Goat Cheese Salad

Best Cheese For Salad

I LOVE creamy goat cheese!! I’m unsure that I tasted it till I used to be in faculty. I keep in mind the Brixx Pizza home salad with goat cheese was the place I fell in love with it once I was at Davidson. 

While sometimes I’ll purchase crumbly goat cheese, a recent log crumbled your self tastes so a lot better!

For extra concepts on what to do with recent cheese, out these bedazzled goat cheese logs, this pumpkin goat cheese lasagna or Anne’s goat cheese frittata.

This good spring salad is each loaded with wholesome vitamins and full of recent taste! You can have the entire recipe full and cleaned up in lower than half-hour. 

The good spring salad

This arugula salad brings collectively the recent goat cheese with spring strawberries, peppery arugula, toasted walnuts, and an orangey dressing.

I added shrimp that I sautéed in some Cajun seasoning on prime for a simple lunch. 

Arugula Goat Cheese Salad Recipe

Ingredients

• Fresh arugula – you’ll be able to sub in any tender salad inexperienced that you simply like
• Goat cheese – goat cheese is the star, however in case you actually don’t find it irresistible, use feta as a substitute
• Walnuts – Toasted
• Fresh strawberries – Sliced
• Shrimp – tossed in Cajun seasoning (optionally available)

Dressing For Goat Cheese Salad

• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 2-3 tbsp orange juice (freshly squeezed is finest!)
• 1 tsp orange zest
• 1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
• Pinch garlic powder (or a clove in case you like)
• 2 pinches kosher salt
• 3 grinds pepper

Instructions

Rinse recent produce

Wash and slice the strawberries and arugula. Wash and slice the orange for the dressing. Crumble the goat cheese. 

Make the dressing

In a small bowl, whisk collectively dressing components till nicely blended. Season with salt and pepper.

Toast walnuts

Chop walnuts if utilizing entire ones, and toast in a toaster oven for 350 levels for about 5 minutes. Stand there and watch so that you don’t burn them!

Cook protein (if including)

If you’re utilizing shrimp, season each side with Cajun seasoning and sauté in a pan for a couple of minutes per facet, till shrimp are cooked by and golden brown. 

Assemble

In a big bowl (shout out to my grandmother’s classic bowl!), toss arugula with dressing.

Then combine in berries and walnuts. Gently toss in crumbled goat cheese.

Finally, prime with shrimp. 

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Tips For How To Make Arugula Goat Cheese Salad

Mix up your goat cheese

As I discussed, a log of goat cheese is far more creamy and flavorful than goat cheese crumbles. There are additionally plenty of scrumptious flavored herb goat cheeses on the market that you need to use to spice up the salad up a notch. You also can swap in blue cheese or feta in case you desire. 

Swap in spiced nuts

Spiced pecans, candied walnuts, or truffle almonds would even be nice to swap in right here! 

Mix up your proteins

Chicken or salmon can be nice right here too. Fresh lima beans or white cannellini beans can be good for vegetarians. Or a No Bull Burger! Use no matter proteins you’ve got available. 

More dressing concepts

I’ve an e-book filled with home made dressings, and this submit shares extra about it.

Also try the submit on DIY Salad Dressing for recommendations on creating your individual! If you don’t have an orange, lemon juice works too, however add a little bit honey for sweetness. You can use balsamic vinegar for a stronger taste or honey mustard for a sweeter dressing. 

Store within the fridge for a number of days

We ate this salad for each lunch with shrimp and as a facet salad with dinner. It will preserve within the fridge undressed for a day or so. 

What To Make With Arugula?

If you’ve got further arugula (or fall in love with this spicy inexperienced) there are such a lot of scrumptious methods to make use of it:

• Arugula as a sandwich topper. This hearty inexperienced doesn’t wilt simply. 
• Add it to an omelet in lieu of spinach. 
• Wilt it into spaghetti or pasta dishes for added diet. 
• Mix it with grains for a half salad / half heat grain bowl. Spiced Millet Salad + Wheatberry Salad. 
• Serve it with beans like this Herby Lentil Salad. 
• Try utilizing a meals processor to make arugula pesto! 

Read extra: all about lettuce diet! 

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