Blue cheese dressing salad

Now this is my kind of salad full of real flavour that you know is going to satisfy. Mind you if you do not like big flavours then this is not for you, but I know I like it. And if you do not like the idea of a sandwich then you can just make the blue cheese dressing and have that on a salad instead.

You will need

50g/1¾oz blue cheese

2tbsp cider vinegar

3tbsp walnut oil

3tbsp sunflower oil

A dash of lemon juice

Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

Some ice burg lettuce

Some endive lettuce

2 or 3 chicken thighs

A little thyme

I slice of white bread

A few walnuts

Slices of apple

So to make your dressing you will need a food processor or some kind of hand blender. Now as to the cheese that you use it is up to you.  Personally I like a good strong flavour so any strong soft blue cheese is good if you ask me. Also I have used cider vinegar as I think it just gives it that right flavour but you could use white wine vinegar or any other that you like. And the same can be said for the walnut oil , but you get the idea.

Take the blue cheese, cider vinegar, walnut oil, sunflower oil and lemon juice and use the blender to bring them together. Then season with salt and pepper to taste.

Process all the dressing ingredients together in a food processor, adding just enough lemon juice to sharpen up the flavour.  And that is that you have made your blue cheese dressing.

Now to make the salad, first skin and bone the chicken thighs then beat them nice and flat between some kitchen papers. Now in a bowl add a little oil the thyme and the slice of bread cut into cubes. In a frying pan start to fry the bread of so that it turns in crisp croutons.  Remove them from the pan and then pan fry the chicken thighs; let them cook so they are nice and brown on the outside then pop the crouton back in the pan with the chicken at the last moment

Now chop some ice burg and scatter it in a bowl with, around the side arrange the endive leaves. Criss-cross the salad with the dressing and finally cut the chick into thin slices and scatter that across the top with the croutons. If you have any left crumble a little more blue cheese over it as well, then garnish with the walnuts and sliced apple to finish.