Maple Cinnamon Roasted Pear Salad with Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette
Author: Good Thyme Kitchen
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Serves: Pears serve 8 /salad serves 1
Ingredients
For the Maple Cinnamon Roasted Pears:
4 Bosc pears
½ lemon
1 Tbsp coconut oil
½ C pure maple syrup
2 Tbsp brown sugar
½ tsp vanilla
¼ tsp cinnamon
small pinch kosher salt
For the Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette:
1 clove garlic, chopped
2 Tbsp 0% greek yogurt
1 Tbsp pure maple syrup
1 Tbsp dijon mustard
3 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
3 Tbsp good quality olive oil
2 C arugula
¼ C toasted walnuts
2 Tbsp blue cheese or gorgonzola
2 Tbsp dried cherries or cranberries
Instructions
For the Maple Cinnamon Roasted Pears:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Peel the pears with a vegetable peeler and cut in half lengthwise. Use a melon scooper to scoop out the core. Rub all sides of the pear with the half lemon and place in a large casserole dish cored side up.
In a small saucepan over medium heat melt coconut oil, maple syrup, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and salt. Heat until melted and sugar is dissolved - about 3 minutes.
Spoon the syrup over the pears and bake 30 minutes. Turn the oven to broil for the last 1-2 minutes, careful not to burn.
Remove from oven and allow to cool.
While the pears are roasting assemble the salad dressing.
For the Creamy Balsamic Vinaigrette:
Using a food processor, blender, or immersion blender - add all ingredients except olive oil and process until smooth, slowly drizzle in the olive oil and continue to process until incorporated. This makes ½ C dressing, use desired amount for the salad and store the remainong dressing in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Assemble the salad with the pear on top of a bed of arugula sprinkled with the walnuts, blue cheese and dried cherries and drizzled with the creamy balsamic vinaigrette.
Recipe by Good Thyme Kitchen at https://www.goodthymekitchen.com/maple-cinnamon-roasted-pear-salad-with-creamy-balsamic-vinaigrette/