Roasted Pear and Blue Cheese Salad

These pears could be added to a charcuterie board, sliced on a crostini for a party, or served over a bed of lettuce. Elegant, easy, and delicious.

ingredients for salad

Arugula

Chopped, Roasted Hazelnuts

Balsamic Vinegar Glaze

Parmesan cheese

ingredients for baked pears

Bartlett Pears

Good Blue cheese

Instructions

Preheat oven to bake at 400 degrees. Cut pear down the middle and scoop out the seeds and cut out the end. Leave the stem intact. Put the cut pears on a sheet pan. Fill the middle of the pear with as many blue cheese crumbles as desired. Bake for 20 minutes.

Remove pears from oven. Allow to cool for a few minutes.

Add a bed of arugula for a plate. Add blue cheese stuffed pears. Sprinkle with the hazelnuts. Grate a sprinkle of parmesan cheese. Drizzle with Balsamic vinegar glaze.

notes

These blue cheese baked pears could be added to a charcuterie board, sliced and put on a crostini for a party, or served over a bed of lettuce. Elegant, easy, and delicious.