Rocket Pear Salad

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This Rocket and Pear Salad is made with rocket or arugula, crisp pears, crunchy toasted walnuts, and shaved Parmesan. It's a simple salad you can put together in 15 minutes. Serve your rocket pear salad as a Fall salad aside simple roasts. It's the perfect salad for Thanksgiving dinner!

Prep Time10

Cook Time5

Total Time15

Course: Salad

Cuisine: Unspecified

Servings:

Calories: 255kcal

Author: Joanne Stekler

Ingredients

Lemon vinaigrette

½ cup extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoon white wine or champagne vinegar
2 tablespoon lemon juice
½ teaspoon Dijon mustard
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon black pepper

Rocket pear salad

4 cups rocket also called rucola or arugula
1 barely ripe pear suggested: Comice
2 ounces Parmesan
⅓ cup walnuts toasted and cooled

Instructions

Combine all of the ingredients for the lemon vinaigrette in a clean glass jar and shake hard to emulsify.
½ cup extra virgin olive oil, 2 tablespoon white wine or champagne vinegar, 2 tablespoon lemon juice, ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard, ½ teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon black pepper, 2 ounces Parmesan
Add the rocket to a medium bowl with enough vinaigrette to thinly coat. Let sit while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.
4 cups rocket
Slice the pear in quarters and core out the seeds. Slice each pear quarter lengthwise, as thinly as possible.
1 barely ripe pear
Shave the Parmesan using a vegetable peeler onto a clean plate or cutting board.
Add the rocket to a salad bowl or individual salad plates and top with the pear, Parmesan shavings, and toasted walnuts. Serve with any remaining vinaigrette on the side.
⅓ cup walnuts

Notes

This recipe for rocket salad with pear, walnut, and Parmesan will make two good-sized side salads or two main course salads with the addition of roast chicken or even duck.

This salad is best prepared right before eating. Otherwise, the arugula may become too soft in the lemon vinaigrette.

Switch out the ingredients in this Fall salad with what you have in your pantry: switch the pear for apple, use almonds or pecans, or use gorgonzola crumbles.

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