Caucasian lime (Tilia × euchlora)

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Dish · From Bladwijzer

Lime leaf salad with goat’s cheese

Ingredients

  • 100 g young lime leaves
  • 150 g goat’s cheese
  • 1 pear, in thin slices
  • 30 g walnuts, roughly chopped
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon lime blossom vinegar (or cider vinegar)
  • 1 teaspoon honey
  • salt and pepper

Method

  1. Rinse the leaves, pat them dry and tear large leaves into pieces.
  2. Whisk the oil, vinegar, honey, salt and pepper together into a dressing.
  3. Toast the walnuts for 3 minutes in a dry pan.
  4. Divide the leaves, the pear and crumbled goat’s cheese between two plates.
  5. Pour the dressing over and scatter the walnuts on top.

Storing: Eat straight away; the dressing keeps separately for 3 days in the fridge.

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