Goats cheese salad with walnuts (Salade de chèvre chaud aux noix)

Ingredients

• 1 tsp Dijon mustard
• 2 tsp red wine vinegar
• 1½ tbsp walnut oil
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 100 g lamb’s lettuce or other green leaves
• 6 cherry tomatoes, halved
• 50 g walnut halves 
• 4 slices of baguette, about 1 cm thick
• 1 garlic clove, halved
• 4 slices of ripe, cylinder-shaped goat cheese, about 1 ½ cm thick
• 1 tbsp finely sliced chives

Instructions

Preheat a grill to medium.

In a mixing bowl, whisk the mustard, vinegar, walnut oil and a little salt and pepper to taste. Add the green leaves, tomatoes and walnuts and very gently toss with the dressing. Divide among 2 plates.

Lightly toast the baguette slices and gently rub them with the garlic.

Top the slices of baguette with the goats cheese slices and place on a baking tray. Cook under the preheated grill until warmed, then place the toasts on top of the salad, sprinkle with the chives and serve immediately.

Note

• Take time to select a small goat cheese that is ripe and not too dry and choose the freshest of green leaves.

Taste le Tour with Gabriel Gaté starts Saturday 7 July 2018 on SBS and then on SBS On Demand and finishes 29 July 2018. Visit the Taste le Tour website to catch-up on episodes, cook up his recipes or find out more about the series.