French Bistro Salad with Warm Goat Cheese

Preparation info
  • Yield: Serves

    4 to 6

    as a first course
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Epic Air Fryer Cookbook: 100 Inspired Recipes That Take Air-Frying in Deliciously Exciting New Directions

By Emily Paster

Published 2019

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If you’ve ever had a salad with warm goat cheese croutons, you know why this is a classic French bistro appetizer. The outside of the crouton is light and crisp, but when you cut into it, the gooey cheese inside melts over the salad greens. Ooh la la!

Before the air fryer, I never had any luck recreating this dish at home. Frying the croutons on the stove was difficult and messy as the cheese tended to fall apart and the coating burned. The air fryer, however, turns out perfectly br