Green Salad with Roasted Pears and Blue Cheese

Name: Green Salad with Roasted Pears and Blue Cheese
Yield: Serves 4 to 6
Ingredients: 1/4 cup, maple syrup; 1 tablespoon, grated fresh ginger; 3 , firm pears, preferably Anjou or Bartlett; , Salt and pepper; 2 tablespoons, cider vinegar; 1 , small shallot, minced; 3 tablespoons, extra virgin olive oil; 2 bunches, watercress, thick stems removed (8 cups); 1 head, Bibb lettuce, torn into bite-sized pieces (6 cups); 1 cup, crumbled blue cheese

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2006

Side Dishes

Salads

Finally a use for those rock-hard pears sold in most supermarkets. Roasting the pears unlocks their sweetness and makes them the star in this simple salad.

SERVES4 to 6

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Green Salad with Roasted Pears and Blue Cheese is the perfect balance of sweet, bitter, and tart to highlight the flavor of the fruit and pungent cheese. For the green salad component, we blended Bibb lettuce and watercress for flavor, colo...

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