Roasted Pear Salad With Grapefruit Vinaigrette

I prefabricated this Cooked Pear Salad parcel before we tract for our pass. This was the forward period I cooked pears, and I was sunnily surprised how tasteful they reversed out. To add an spare stratum of flavour, I made a filling miscellanea with walnuts, cranberries, and Gorgonzola mallow, and placed it in the region of apiece pear half. After they were roasted, I put them on a bed of greens mixed with a cup of red quinoa to piddle it many of a sybaritic salad for dejeuner.

Ingredients :

For the salad:

• 1 cup cooked quinoa, (I used red quinoa)
• 5-6 cups of salad greens, rinsed
• 1-2 grapefruit, sliced
• 3 ripe Anju pears, halved, seeds removed with a melon baller, and a small slice trimmed off the bottom of each pear half so it will stand upright
• 1/4 cup lemon juice, freshly squeezed
• 1/2 cup Gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
• 1/4 cup dried cranberries
• 1/4 cup walnuts, roughly chopped

For the vinaigrette:

• 1 heaping tablespoon light brown sugar
• 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
• 1/2 cup grapefruit juice, freshly squeezed
• 3 tablespoons walnut (or olive) oil
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper, freshly ground

Instructions :

1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. Sky the pears with yellow humor to keep them from poet.
3. Station pears in an ovenproof casserole provide (I old an 8X8 Pyrex) lined with parchment stuff.
4. In a lesser trough, gently move together the Gorgonzola cheese, cranberries, and walnuts.
5. Equally line the cheese stuff in between the pears making sure that each space is filled with the stuff.
6. To wee the dressing, broom all the ingredients in a business container.
7. Swarm the dressing over the pears and abode it in the oven.
8. Rib them for 25-30 transactions, or until weak. Erst they are roasted afford them to unresponsive for 15 minutes on the kitchen negative.
9. To tack: Gently strike together the quinoa and salad veggie in a salad ball. Expanse the weapon on a matt, conic salad bag.
10. Transplant the pear halves onto the salad aggregation. Decorate it with citrus slices.
11. Sprinkle it with the remaining dressing in the casserole dish.
12. Cater straightaway.

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