Peak Fresh Produce® Pear & Walnut Salad
Peak Fresh Produce® Pear & Walnut Salad
Directions
- Combine salt, sugar, pepper, and cayenne.
- Melt butter over medium heat and add walnuts to pan. Cook for 1-2 minutes to brown walnuts.
- Pour walnuts and residual butter in bowl then toss with sugar mixture. Layout on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes in pre-heated 375-degree oven. Remove from oven and allow to cool for service.
- Toss greens with dressing and place in center of chilled salad plate.
- Arrange a half of sliced pear per plate fanned out from center of greens.
- Place portion of crumbles on greens and pears followed by a portion of spiced walnuts then serve.
Ingredients
- 4 cups Peak Fresh Produce® Lettuce, Arcadian Harvest Blend
- 1 cup Magellan® Walnuts
- 2 tbsp Nature's Best Dairy® Butter, Unsalted
- 1/8 tsp Magellan® sea salt
- 1/8 tsp Magellan® Black Pepper, ground
- 1 tbsp West Creek® Sugar, Granulated
- 1/8 tsp Magellan® Cayenne pepper
- 1 cup Roma® Cheese Crumbles, Blue
- 2 ea Peak Fresh Produce® pear(s), cored and sliced
- 8 oz Piancone® Chianti Basil Vinaigrette
Chef Lonnie Varisco - Corporate Executive Chef, Performance Foodservice.
