Name: Punchy Prawn and Pear Salad with Blue Cheese Dressing
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 1 tbsp light oil, such as groundnut/peanut; a few fresh chives, snipped; pinch of chilli flakes, to serve (optional); 3 tbsp mayonnaise; 3 tbsp soured cream; salt; a few fresh dill fronds; juice of 1 lemon; 35 g/1¼ oz Stilton (or other mild blue cheese), finely crumbled; 1 corn on the cob; 300 g/10½ oz raw, tail-on king prawns/jumbo shrimp; 2 small, firm but ripe pears; 2 small, ripe avocados; 2 little gem lettuces, leaves separated; 3 tbsp toasted pumpkin seeds; 1 tsp Cajun spice; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bold

By Nisha Katona

Published 2024

About

Pears pair beautifully with blue cheese, but you might not have imagined that prawns/shrimp would work with them both too. Put your inner-sceptic on hold and try this gorgeous salad. I add a touch of Cajun spice to the prawns for a bolder flavour and the whole thing just sings.

Ingredients

2 small, firm but ripe pears
2 small, ripe avocados
300 g/10½

Method

Start by making the dressing, so it’s ready to go. Combine the mayonnaise, soured cream, blue cheese and most of the lemon juice in a bowl (reserve a little lemon juice for squeezing over the pear and avocado in the next step). Stir everything together, pressing the lumps of cheese against the side of the bowl as you go to break them up and combine it into the sauce. Season generously with salt

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