Rachel Allen's Chicory, Blue Cheese, Pecan and Cranberry Bites

Method

Method

Mix all the ingredients for the dressing together in a jam jar.

Toast the pecans on a baking tray at 180’C/350’F/Gas mark 4 for 5-10 minutes – don’t leave them as they burn easily. When cool, chop or crumble them roughly.

Trim the chicory and separate the leaves. Combine the cheese, nuts and cranberries in a bowl and toss with a little dressing. 

Place the chicory leaves on a plate and spoon in the nut and cheese mixture to serve as a simple festive canapé.

Note - this can also be served as a winter you salad served on watercress leaves.

Ingredients

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Serves: 1

• For the dressing:

• 3 tbsp hazelnut or walnut oil

• 1 and a half tbsp. white wine vinegar

• A quarter of a tsp Dijon mustard

• Salt and black pepper to season

• For the bites:

• 12 pecans

• 225g (8 oz) Cashel Blue Cheese, cut in to small cubes

• 1 head chicory

• 2 tbsp dried cranberries, chopped very roughly