A crisp Green Salad with Cantaloupe and Blue Cheese is the perfect summer side salad! The Creamy Orange Champagne Vinaigrette tops off the salad.
Prep Time15 minutesmins
Total Time15 minutesmins
Course: Salads
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cantaloupe and bleu cheese salad, Green Salad with Cantaloupe and Blue Cheese, salad with cantaloupe
Servings: 4Servings
Author: Dahn Boquist
Ingredients
6cupssalad greens
2cupsfresh mint roughly torn
1cupred radicchio leavestorn
½small red onionthinly sliced
3cupscantaloupecubed
4ouncesblue cheesecrumbled
8ouncesroasted walnut halves
¼cupCreamy Orange Champagne Dressing
Instructions
Rinse and spin-dry the greens and tip into a large salad bowl. Add the mint leaves, radicchio and red onion, toss to combine.
Distribute the cantaloupe, blue cheese and walnut halves on top of the greens. Drizzle the dressing on the salad and toss to combine. Serve immediately.
Notes
Choose a variety of leafy salad greens such as butter lettuce, oak leaf, frisée, baby spinach or arugula.
Pass on the pre-crumbled blue cheese and buy a chunk and crumble it yourself.
Tear the salad greens directly into the basket of the salad spinner, then set the basket into a pan of ice water, rinse, drain and then spin them dry.
This salad an be made a couple hours in advance without the dressing added. Cover the salad with a damp towel and refrigerate until ready to toss with the dressing and serve.