Baked Goat Cheese Salad

This is another favorite around the LBB household: Baked Goat Cheese Salad

If you don’t like goat cheese….good….more for the rest of us!

It’s a quick and easy meal to quickly throw together. Sometimes it morphs into different variations but the basic ingredients remain the same.

Basic ingredients:
Crumbled Goat Cheese
Grape Tomatoes
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Italian Seasoning
Mixed Greens for Salad

I make my own balsamic vinaigrette from scratch (recipe found here).

Optional: Grilled Chicken, Pine Nuts

PREHEAT OVER TO 350 DEGREES

First I take a handful of tomatoes and slice them to butterfly and lay them out onto parchment paper on a baking pan.

I drizzle olive oil over the tomatoes, add some Italian Seasoning, and then add the crumbled goat cheese. If I have the pine nuts I’ll add those too.

Place into the oven for about 10 to 15 minutes until the cheese starts to brown slightly. Then remove from oven.

Create a large bed of lettuce:

Use a spatula to lift of sections of the baked goat cheese/tomato mixture and add over the greens. Drizzle with balsamic vinaigrette or any other vinaigrette you prefer:

Try adding in grilled chicken too!

Here’s a variation from my Instagram account…with grilled chicken, artichoke hearts and a side of capers. Everything but the kitchen sink:

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