Veggie Love is the Future of our Food

Name: Veggie Love is the Future of our Food
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 473 milliliters baby arugula leaves (loosely packed); 1 Tbsp fresh rosemary; 142 grams fresh goat cheese (at room temperature); 2 teaspoons kosher salt (divided, plus more for seasoning); 158 milliliters freshly squeezed lemon juice; 8 slices whole grain multigrain bread; 237 milliliters extra-virgin olive oil; 1 pinch freshly cracked black pepper (or to taste); 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes (optional); 2 Tbsps minced shallot; 59 milliliters walnut oil (or vegetable oil); 473 milliliters walnuts (lightly toasted)

Veggie Love is the Future of our Food is a vegetarian recipe with 4 servings. One portion of this dish contains roughly 23g of protein, 67g of fat, and a total of 798 calories. This recipe covers 26% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. 41 person found this recipe to be delicious and satisfying. A couple people really liked this main course. A mixture of grain multigrain bread, freshly cracked pepper, walnuts, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. To use up the lemon juice you could follow this main course with the Lemon Shortbread Cookies with Lemon Icing From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 20 minutes.

Instructions

Make the vinaigrette: In a bowl, combine the oil, lemon juice, shallots, and 2 teaspoons salt and whisk until the vinaigrette emulsifies.

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Lemon Juice

Vinaigrette

Shallot

Salt

Cooking Oil

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Whisk

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Add the rosemary sprig, cover, and set aside for 1 hour.

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Rosemary

Place the toasted walnuts in the bowl of a food processor and process them until they become sticky or paste-like. It takes a good minute or so for the nuts to release their oils and you may need to scrape the sides of the bowl. Be diligent.

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Walnuts

Nuts

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Add the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt and red pepper (if using).

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Red Pepper

Salt

Lay the bread slices on a work surface. Divide the goat cheese in 4 equal portions; spread each portion onto 4 slices bread.In a small bowl, toss the celery in 2 tablespoons of the vinaigrette; season with pepper.

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Goat Cheese

Vinaigrette

Celery

Pepper

Spread

Bread

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Place the celery on top of the goat cheese.

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Goat Cheese

Celery

Add the arugula to the bowl used to dress the celery and toss with 1 more tablespoon vinaigrette. Top the celery with avocado slices; season with salt then follow with the dressed arugula.

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Avocado Slices

Vinaigrette

Arugula

Celery

Salt

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Spread about 1 heaping tablespoon (or more to taste) walnut butter evenly over the 4 remaining bread slices. Use these to close the sandwiches; cut into halves, and serve.Like this:Like Loading...

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Butter