Blue Cheese, Apple and Walnut Salad

Ensalada de Cabrales, Manzana y Nueces

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Food of Northern Spain

By Jenny Chandler

Published 2005

  • About

A celebration of Asturian flavours and a delicious salad to eat in the autumn (fall) when rosy red apples and walnuts have just come to the market. The slightly bitter curly endive gives a wonderful bite and harks back to the more traditional presentation of the dish with Cabrales blue cheese being piled on to chicory (Belgian endive) leaves and topped with walnuts.

The Cabrales cheese is decadently creamy and pungent at the same time. If you can’t get hold of Cabrales, do try the r