Toasted Walnut Salad With Mandarin Oranges and Gorgonzola Cheese

"I had this salad at one of my favorite restaurants. I couldn't figure out the secret until I toasted the walnuts. This salad blends all the flavors together well, it is a great side to just about anything. Easy to put together and chill while you cook other things. If you don't have raspberry vinaigrette, try with Recipe #23478."
 
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Ready In:
19mins
Ingredients:
6
Serves:
4-6
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ingredients

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directions

  • Melt butter in a sauce pan.
  • Stir in walnut pieces and coat with butter.
  • Stir for 4 minutes and remove from pan and set aside.
  • Allow to cool to room temperature.
  • Toss greens, mandarin orange segments and crumbled cheese.
  • Toss with toasted walnuts and serve with raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing.

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Reviews

  1. This is a delicious salad. I've made it twice now--once with romaine, green-leaf and butter lettuces topped with Recipe #23478, and another time with baby spinach and baby spring mix topped with Recipe #176952. I usually toast nuts dry, either in a skillet or in the oven, and toasting the walnuts in butter was a nice touch. I love mandarin oranges, and I like that this salad has a lot of them. :) Both times I've made it, I was only making it to serve two, so I pretty well just eyeballed ingredient amounts. Great salad--thanks for posting!
     
  2. I must have read for hours here before I found what I was looking for - trying to replicate a salad I had at a dinner party recently - and this was dead on. I could eat nothing but this salad and be happy! I was pressed for time so I bought glazed walnut pieces rather than toasting them myself - adds some extra sweetness that I really liked but I'll try it your way when I have more time. Thanks!
     
  3. delicious and the other reviewer was right, the five star house salad dressing goes great with this. thanks!
     
  4. I can't wait to try this for one of my clients. Helen
     
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I?m ?originally from Texas, but now live in Florida. Still gotta have that spice though....love chipotle peppers, habaneros, and jalapenos. This is a picture of myself & my 2 daughters taken in Dec'06. I am working on my graduate degree, & still work as a nurse prn. When I'm not cooking and eating what I cook... I head for the gym to work out. As far as cookbooks, I love the church/ community cookbooks, where someone has dug out old handwritten recipes by granny and shared them with others-those are the best kind. If I had a month off, I'd for sure go hiking, would love to visit Australia and New Zealand.?
 
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