Sweet Pear and Gorgonzola Salad with Rocket, Watercress, Walnuts, and Orange Flower Honey

Name: Sweet Pear and Gorgonzola Salad with Rocket, Watercress, Walnuts, and Orange Flower Honey
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 pinch Pinch freshly ground black pepper; 118 milliliters edible flowers, such as sage, rocket blossoms, rose petals, or nasturtiums; 59 milliliters fresh basil leaves; 113 grams Gorgonzola, rind removed, crumbled; 4 servings Champagne grapes, as needed for garnish; 1 Tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice; 2 Tbsps orange flower honey; 4 ripe Comice pears; 1 bunch rocket, washed, spin dried, stemmed; 1 Tbsp salt, plus pinch; 237 milliliters sugar; 59 milliliters walnut oil; 118 milliliters walnuts, toasted, coarsely chopped; 1 bunch watercress, washed, spin dried, stemmed

You can never have too many side dish recipes, so give Sweet Pear and Gorgonzola Salad with Rocket, Watercress, Walnuts, and Orange Flower Honey a try. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains around 11g of protein, 32g of fat, and a total of 708 calories. This recipe covers 18% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Head to the store and pick up walnut oil, orange flower honey, gorgonzola, and a few other things to make it today. It is a good option if you're following a gluten free and vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.

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Oven

Slice the pears in half lengthwise. Rub each half with a pinch of salt. Put parchment paper on a tray just large enough to hold the pears, and spread the sugar on the paper. There should be a 1/8-inch layer.

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Spread

Pear

Sugar

Salt

Dry Seasoning Rub

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Baking Paper

Put the pear halves cut side down on the sugar and bake for 1 hour. When the pears are cool enough to handle, remove the cores and slice them crosswise into 1/8-inch sections.

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Pear

Sugar

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Oven

Put the lemon juice in a salad bowl with salt and pepper and mix to dissolve the salt, then whisk in the oil. Arrange the slices of pear 1 pear per plate, in 1 layer in the center of the plate, leaving a 3-inch gap in the center for the watercress and the rocket. Scatter the cheese and then the walnuts over the pears, and then drizzle the honey on top of the walnuts and cheese.

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Salt And Pepper