Quince & Gorgonzola Salad

April 21, 2012

This is definitely a sis salad to the fig & goat's curd one I made before this calendar month - Ottolenghi expertly teams a limited-time-only fruit alongside fancy cheese too lots of greenish leaves. Truth survive told, I'd been secretly waiting for J to denote quince time for a span of months. Just for this salad.

Quinces typically larn poached piece of cake inwards lots of saccharide but hither also peppercorns, bay leaves, orangish zest, lemon juice too cherry-red vino - lovely. This ensures the quince segments retain a petty seize alongside teeth too they're beautifully teamed alongside a pungent, creamy gorgonzola. Lots of greens too closed to pistachios choke along it all from existence also rich.

The poaching juices are ingeniously used inwards the salad dressing, but at that spot are enough to a greater extent than to relish later on this salad's finished. I withal haven't decided what to create alongside mine - whatever suggestions?

Quince & gorgonzola salad
(very slightly adapted from a recipe inwards Yotam Ottolenghi's Plenty)

400mL water
300g castor sugar
xv dark peppercorns
four strips of orangish zest
two bay leaves
juice of 1/2 lemon
200mL cherry-red wine
two medium quinces
1 teaspoon wholegrain mustard
two teaspoons cider vinegar
four tablespoons olive oil
80g mixed leaves
120g gorgonzola
60g pistachios
tabular array salt too pepper

Preheat the oven to 140°C.

In a medium saucepan, stir together the water, castor sugar, peppercorns, orangish zest, bay leaves, lemon juice too cherry-red wine. Gently warm them until the saccharide has dissolved, too then accept them off the heat.

Peel too heart the quinces, adding these scraps to the saucepan of syrup. Slice the quince into segments too add together them to the syrup. Transfer the quinces too syrup to a casserole dish, comprehend it upward too bake for virtually two hours. When the quince segments are completely tender, take away them from the oven too fix them aside to cool.

To brand the salad's dressing, whisk together the mustard, vinegar, oil, four tablespoons of the cooking liquid too tabular array salt too pepper to taste.

Set upward the salad past times layering the greens too quinces on a plate, interspersing them alongside teaspoons of gorgonzola too sprinklings of pistachios. Spoon the dressing over the top.