Breaded Goat Cheese Salad with Dried Fruit and Pomegranate. And Cheesy Giveaway Part 2!

This giveaway has ended. Winner announced here.

  goat-cheese-pomegranate-dried-fruit-salad3 I have a great giveaway for your from Chavrie cheese! You can win an amazing fall entertaining set worth $100! All you have to do is comment to enter the giveaway. One randomly picked winner will get a beautiful bread board, $50 cooking.com gift certificate, goat cheese coupons and more!

But first, here is a quick and easy goat cheese salad for you. Crisp romaine, soft goat cheese with bits of dried fruit and crystallized ginger, fresh pomegranate seeds…all served with some oil and vinegar on the side. Simple to make, but tastes so gourmet! I love the crystallized ginger with the goat cheese and could eat that all by itself :)

You may want to see my post on how to open a pomegranate without making a mess

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chavrie-goat-cheese Breaded Goat Cheese Salad with Dried Fruit and Pomegranate Recipe
serves 1 as an entree

4 tbsp bread crumbs, I used italian herb and garlic flavored bread crumbs
3 heaping tbsp goat cheese
1/2 tbsp chopped dried fruit, I used dried apricots and crystallized ginger
3 large romaine leaves, torn into pieces
2 tbsp fresh pomegranate seeds
Salt and pepper
Olive oil and red wine vinegar or balsamic vinegar to serve on the side as dressing.

Place the bread crumbs in a small skillet and toast on low heat till bread crumbs are lightly browned. Turn off heat. Mix goat cheese (make sure its cold) with chopped dried fruit. Take 1 heaping tbsp of the goat cheese mixture. Using your fingers form the goat cheese into a ball and then flatten it into a disc. Gently press the goat cheese disc into the toasted bread crumbs. Make sure all sides are coated. Repeat with the remaining goat cheese and bread crumbs. You should have 3 breaded goat cheese discs.

Place the torn romaine lettuce in a plate. Arrange the goat cheese discs on top. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds, salt and pepper. Serve oil and vinegar on the side for dressing the salad.
 

Cheesy Giveaway Part 2! Win this bread board with dip bowl and much more!

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Win a Gourmet Fall Entertaining Set (Value $100)One lucky winner will get:

-Williams-Sonoma Cherry Wood Bread Board with Dip Bowl (in the photo above)
-Dried fruits
-Crystallized Ginger
-Chavrie Coupons – Free Cheese, of course!
-Cooking.com Gift Certificate for $50.00
-Chavrie recipe cards (dips, quick tips and wine suggestions)

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How to enter

-leave a comment here

To increase your chances of winning, also do one or more of the following. You will be counted as many times!

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US residents only please!
Contest ends Thursday, Oct 29th 11.30pm EST
One random winner will be announced on the 30th!

 

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100 thoughts on “Breaded Goat Cheese Salad with Dried Fruit and Pomegranate. And Cheesy Giveaway Part 2!

  1. Oh my god that looks so delicious! I LOVE goat cheese!

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    Brandy Reply:

    This salad looks fantastic! I just made an asparagus soup with chevrie a few weekends ago from a recipe on their website and it was awesome! Can’t wait to give this a try :)

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  2. I would love to try this cheese with cranberries.
    I think stuffing figs with this cheese and drizzling with some honey would also be a nice appetizer.
    Love the bread board. I missed the last give a way…but I’ll keep visiting your site cause your recipes are delish.

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  3. Been to your blog a couple of times but never commented. Your presentation and photos are amazing. The baked cheese looks very appetizing.
    And the giveaway is very tempting :)

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  4. We recently tried goat cheese and liked it.. but this is gorgeous!!
    I did wonder what would go well with goat cheese and lo! I have my answer, ginger!! I would never have thought of that!
    The pom seeds make it look so colorful! Too good!

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  5. That looks really good! I have always had goat cheese cold so I will see how I like it with a warm breaded topping.

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    Sala @ Veggie Belly Reply:

    @Nancy, actually the cheese doesnt get hot. its only the read crumbs that are heated. you only roll the cold cheese in the bread crumbs! i found this easier than breading the ‘proper’ way and its so much easier to work with cold goat cheese! holds its shape!

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  6. Yum! I love goat cheese any way you give it to me but I love little medallions like these on salads. Thanks for the reminder. I’m going to have to add them to my menu for next week!

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  7. I just started adding pomegranates to salads recently. I saw one at our local co-op at the check-out counter and decided to give it a whirl….but I couldn’t get the seeds out without them flying all over my kitchen. Oh well, they tasted great once they made it in the salad.

    Recently I’ve been loving Boston butter lettuce topped with some arugula and goat cheese and mango. There’s something about the mildness of the butter lettuce combined with the spiciness of the arugula and the creaminess of the cheese. Yum! Thanks for the new recipe ideas!

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    Sala @ Veggie Belly Reply:

    @Molly, then this post is just for you!

    How to open a pomegranate without making a mess: http://www.veggiebelly.com/2009/10/open-pomegranate.html

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  8. I never used to be much of a cheese fan. I loved feta, but could pass on everything else… that was until I tried goat cheese! I’m now a total fan, plus it has inspired me to branch out and retry cheeses I had dismissed in the past!

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  9. Goat cheese is my crack, and my dog’s crack and my cat’s crack… really I don’t know anyone in the house who doesn’t love that stuff. The turtles might not. I’ll ask them tonight.

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  10. I’m glad I found your site, I’m always trying to cook more vegetarian meals for my fiance and I. I’ve gradually been changing him from a not so healthy diet to a healthy diet and he hasn’t complained once yet :) There is hope.

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  11. I love goat cheese–with pomegranates the salad sounds amazing–glad you put that video up about seeding pomegranates–I always make a HUGE mess!

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  12. Hey Sala, I happened to stumble upon your blog and guess what i discovered, a give away post :) Its nice to participate in something like this. I really liked your pics sala. You come across to be a very creative person. Good job/info on your blog. I like the how to very much…i am a big promo fan and you did make my life easy ;)

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  13. What an interesting method of presenting goat cheese in a salad – I’m definitely going to give this a try! Very glad to have found your blog.

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  14. Great find! I was looking for new way to use crystallized ginger…and I love goat cheese!
    Can’t wait to try this! Also, removing pomegranate seeds under water is going to make
    cleaner work of my Thanksgiving pomegranate salad! Thanks, pictures are great.

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  15. Oh, I like that these goat cheese rounds aren’t fried like some I’ve had, but should have a similar texture and flavor due to the toasted bread crumbs.

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  16. Ooh I want to enter! I adore goat cheese. I have a really small grocery budget but sometimes I’ll splurge and buy goat cheese. It’s so soft and yum. Interesting to see another Alana commented — I don’t know many others :)

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  17. goat cheese is one of my favs! will definitely give this a shot for my upcoming wine and cheese parties..and i posted a link to your pom opening for one my recipes that call for pom – great water trick!

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  18. This looks deeelicious! I love the goat cheese paired with the pomegranates. I can’t wait to try this with a nice bottle of wine. Thanks so much!

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  19. This dip looks really good! FYI just because someone is lactose intolerant doesn’t necessarily mean that they cannot eat goat cheese. I am super lactose intolerant of COW’s milk and normal cheeses BUT I can eat goat cheese all I want… and I do!

    P.S. your pics are looking GREAT by the way ;-)

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  20. it’s fun, in France we have the brand “Chavroux” for goat cheese, with quite the same packaging… wonder if it’s a renaming of the same brand, or just two different brands?

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  21. Wow! I just stumbled on this post while searching for what to do with all my pomegranates… but the whole site looks great and I’m definitely bookmarking it! And I am so making this salad this week!

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  22. Wonder where my comment disappeared :( (
    Anyway… the thing is just a few days ago we tried goat cheese for the first time and had no idea what to pair it with .. ur post helps!

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