Spinach Salad w/ Goat Cheese and a Maple Walnut Vinaigrette

by Dawn T in Rouxbe Recipes

Spinach, walnuts and goat cheese served with a warm maple Dijon and walnut vinaigrette.

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Manel A

A Gourmet way to eat spinachs

Spinachs are traditional on my daily cooking in spanish winter. My father grow them in an echological way.
This recipe has been an interesting new way to present them. Although my sons found the flavour it a bit hard, the truth is that it was worth it. I changed grape seed oil with virgin oil and some fresh white winter grapes.
Tha plate was grate. The tast has to be educated.
Thanks!

Sheila P

Delicious and easy

Where would I look for walnut vinegar. I looked in the vinegar section of Safeway and could not find. Do I need to go to a specialty store. I will be making this recipe over and over. S

Dawn T
Rouxbe Staff

Where to Find Walnut Vinegar

A specialty store is usually your best bet, but many stores are carrying more exotic vinegars these days.
Best bet is to phone around before you go out, to see if any stores carry what you are looking for.
Italian delis, small cheese shops and local healthy food type stores tend to carry things like this.
And of course there is always the online world where all of this stuff is available...though you are probably like me, when I want it...I want it now.

Jorge A

Goat Cheese

My wife does not like goat cheese. What other type of cheese would you recommend?

Jorge

Dawn T
Rouxbe Staff

Re: Goat Cheese

I would say experiment, start with some of the cheeses that your wife does like. Maybe try something soft and creamy, that is similar in texture to the goat cheese, but it doesn't have to be. Cheers!

Nyta E

Spinach salad w/goat cheese/maple walnut vine

Am having special dinner party next week and decided to try the salad ahead of time. It took research to find the walnut vinegar, but was well worth the cost and time. The wonderful underlining taste of the vinegar and maple syrup was exceptional. I was going to use olive oil, but found grape seed oil in the market. Also pricey, but worth it. I am afraid olive oil would be to heavy. I also was afraid of using raw mushrooms, but again was surprised how much they added to the salad. The goat cheese melted into the salad and gave it a creamy taste. So glad I tried it before hand. I will make this salad over and over again.

Mikell B

Walnut vinegar?

Couldn't find walnut vinegar, so we used apple cider vinegar instead. That dressing was off the hook!

Karyn P

TY Mike!

I couldn't find the walnut vinegar either. Will try the apple cider
vinegar instead. Thanks for posting that!

Maria K

cups

I would like to ask for your help for us not living in the US,and cooks or chefs working all over the world,please do something adout this cup measurment.I need to know how many pounds or kilos in order to buy the ingredients according to the number of people I have to cook for.

Dawn T
Rouxbe Staff

RE: Metric Measurements

While this is a very popular subject on Rouxbe (just type in "measurements" and you will see many other threads on this), it is not something that we have planned for the near future - only because of so many other higher priority items at this time. I know, sorry :-(

There are however many sites with conversion tools that you might find helpful. There are even quite a few cooking conversion apps available.

I know that when I went to culinary school they used to mix up all of the measurements on purpose just to train our brains to always be thinking. That way if we travelled or worked somewhere where the measurements were different, we would not be totally lost. That does not mean that I remember them all today but I try to :-) Cheers!

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