Mixed Greens Salad With Goat Cheese Croutons 

(Serves 6)

Our Provençal Vinaigrette has no equivalent on the market. It is carefully crafted from a blend of grapeseed and olive oils, aged wine vinegar and specially chosen Herbes de Provence.

Ingredients

· 6 ounces soft white goat cheese

· 3 tablespoons milk or cream

· 1 tablespoon fresh thyme leaves, finely chopped

· 12 thin slices baguette bread

· Mixed mesclun greens (about 6 cups)

· ½ cup chopped walnuts (optional)

· ½ cup Life in Provence™ Provençal Vinaigrette

· Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Preheat broiler.

In a small bowl, mix together the goat cheese, the milk or the cream and the thyme until the mixture becomes smooth and spread able.

Broil the slices of bread just until they begin to brown. Remove from broiler and spread each generously with cheese mixture.

Toss the greens with the walnuts, add ½ cup of the Provençal Vinaigrette and season to taste.

Evenly arrange the greens on individual plates, and top with two croutons.

Serve immediately, as a first course or as an elegant accompaniment to a dinner entree.

The Provençal Vinaigrette is also a perfect complement to tomato or pasta salads.

Technical Information

Ingredients:

Grape seed oil, old wine vinegar, Water, Olive oil, Dijon mustard, salt, Provencal Herbs, natural thickeners: xanthan and guar gums, Spices.

Natural Additives:

A food additive is any substance added to a food product, either directly or indirectly, that affects its product characteristics. Food additives play an important role because they help maintain product consistency, palatability and wholesomeness, improve or maintain nutritional value, and enhance or maintain the flavor of food products.

Produced from the fermentation of corn sugar by Xanthomonas Campestris, xanthan gum is used as a thickener, emulsifier in dairy product and dressings (it is a water-soluble polymer).

Guar Gum is derived from the ground endosperm of the guar plant.

Guar Gum is a natural high molecular weight hydrocolloidal polysaccharide composed of galactan and mannan units combined through glycosidic linkages, (galactomanan)
Dissolved in cold or hot water, guar gum forms a slime of high viscosity.

Guar Gum is generally used as an excellent and reasonable thickener and stabilizer in many aqueous systems.

Net Weight: 250 ml (8.5 FL oz)  

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