Which Cheese is Best in Salad Recipes

Cheese gives a lot of flavor to salad recipes, whichever variety you choose to add. You might like to try a creamy stilton or Roquefort in your next salad. Either crumble the cheese over the greens or use a readymade blue cheese dressing. Combining sweet flavors like candied nuts, slivers of pear or apple with the salty, sharp flavor of something like stilton or Roquefort gives great results. Add some pine nuts or walnuts for crunch and maybe some beets or tomatoes to brighten the dish up and you have a gourmet side dish.

Feta is also nice and because it is salty you might not have to add extra salt. This one is moist and creamy so you only need a tiny bit of dressing in addition to it. Because feta is Greek you might want to add some black olives to the lettuce and feta mixture and perhaps some chopped sun-dried tomatoes also.

Parmesan is a good idea if you like the earthy, nutty, salty flavor of this Italian delicacy. You can shave or grate it over lettuce leaves and add some walnuts for a classic recipe.

Goat cheese is nice crumbled on top of lettuce and you can serve it warm and slightly melted or chilled. Roasted ricotta is similar to regular ricotta but more crumbly and dry. If you are not keen on the stronger flavored options, you might like roasted ricotta.

You can either use one kind of cheese or combine a few different ones for a more interesting flavor. Feta and parmesan would be interesting, as would cheddar and mozzarella. You can shave or grate it or cut it in to small cubes, depending on what you are using. Some varieties are crumbly and you will not be able to dice those.

The texture of the cheese is just as important as the flavor and if you are serving the salad as a side dish you might want to think about the entree. A plain grilled steak is nice with a complex salad but if you are serving a marinated steak recipe then keep the salad simple so it does not interfere with the meat marinade’s flavor or overpower it – some salad leaves, cucumber, and a few shavings of parmesan would be a tasty and sufficient side dish for that.