Warm grilled peach & frisée salad with goat's cheese dressing
I love this salad – it's so simple. It's based on one that was cooked for me by the brilliant Jean-Georges Vongerichten at his New York restaurant, Perry Street. The flavour and juicy sweetness you get from a grilled ripe peach, or pear for that matter, served bravely and simply next to a crunchy single leaf salad of frisée or curly endive, are perfection. Especially with the creamy dressing. You might feel as if you're being a little bit wasteful when you're preparing this lettuce because the key to making it successfully is to remove and discard all the dark green, ridiculously bitter outer leaves of the lettuces, as you only want to use the sweet, white, crunchy inner leaves.
Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 9 of 11 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 9 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Olive Oil | 1 tbsp (14g) | 119 |
| Cheese | 1 oz (28g) cheddar | 113 |
| Parmesan Cheese | 1 oz (28g) | 110 |
| Peach | 1 medium (150g) | 59 |
| Walnut | 1 walnut half (4g) | 26 |
| Lemon | juice of 1 lemon (48ml) | 12 |
| Black Pepper | 1 tsp ground (2.3g) | 6 |
| Lettuce | 1 cup shredded (36g) | 5 |
| Salt | 1 tsp (6g) | 0 |
| Endive | not in our table | 0 |
| Peppermint | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- 55 g crumbly goat's cheese
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 5 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon walnut oil
- 20 g Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
- 2 large ripe peaches, halved and stones removed
- extra virgin olive oil
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 2 frisée or endive lettuces, dark outer leaves discarded, inner leaves washed and dried
- Parmesan cheese, freshly grated
- 1 small bunch fresh mint, smallest leaves picked