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Salad ABC - Apples, Bacon, Cumin Cheese

Salad ABC - Apples, Bacon, Cumin Cheese

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by Kitchen Butterfly

Salad ABC - Apples, Bacon, Cumin Cheese

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by Kitchen Butterfly

  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Salad with Apples
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    Kitchen Butterfly's Notes: It all came to me in a flash of inspiration: Apple - Bacon - Cumin Cheese. I've always been a cheese and apple babe. Its just the way life goes. I love it when lime is back in town - to get...

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Serves 4

ABC with lime cream dressing:

2 apples, golden delicious or Jonagolds, washed & dried Ask a question about this ingredient

12 rashers (smoky) bacon, fried till crisp and then left to cool and then roughly chopped Ask a question about this ingredient

75-100g young (cumin) gouda or edam cheese, cut into small cubes Ask a question about this ingredient

1 teaspoon whole cumin, lightly toasted if you can't find cumin cheese Ask a question about this ingredient

1/3 cup of currants or dried blueberries Ask a question about this ingredient

1/3 cup of pecans, chopped Ask a question about this ingredient

To serve, large lettuce leaves for cups Ask a question about this ingredient

Lime cream dressing (recipe follows) Ask a question about this ingredient

  1. Remove the apple core and chop into small chunks. Place in a bowl. Add the bacon, cumin cheese, currant and pecans and toss till well combined. If you can't find cumin cheese, add the toasted cumin seeds when mixing in the bacon and other ingredients.

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  2. Drizzle with dressing and stir again to combine. Scoop into lettuce cups and enjoy

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Lime cream dressing:

2 tablespoons of (Hellmans) mayonnaise Ask a question about this ingredient

1/3 - 1/2 cup of pouring/single cream Ask a question about this ingredient

Microplaned zest of 1 lime Ask a question about this ingredient

Salt and freshly ground coarse black pepper, to taste Ask a question about this ingredient

  1. Put the mayonnaise in a small bowl. Whisk in the cream till you get a pouring consistency which should be a bit thicker than the cream.

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  2. Add the lime zest to the cream mixture and stir in. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Ready for some apples!

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4 Comments on Salad ABC - Apples, Bacon, Cumin Cheese

Ozoz_profile Reply

Thanks for your comments wssmom, ashley_sp and AJ!

I love the suggestions AJ.....might give it a try soon

New_years_kitchen_hlc_only Reply

Mmmm, yum. What a great combo! Love the lime dressing. I'm definitely going to tee this one up. It would be perfect with a soup and homemade bread dinner! ;o)

Img_0022_profile Reply

Looks deliocious!!

Me Reply

So many of my favorite things! I am looking forward to assembling this!

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