Prosciutto, asparagus and goats cheese salad

Serves:

Ingredients

Salad

• 100g lean prosciutto, visible fat removed and torn into strips
• 200g fresh asparagus, wooden ends trimmed
• 2 cups soft lettuce (such as butter lettuce)
• 1 cup baby spinach leaves
• 1 cup rocket leaves
• 100g goats cheese

Dressing

• 20g anchovies
• zest of 1 lemon
• 1 small garlic clove, minced
• juice of 1 lemon
• 40ml (2 tbsp) extra virgin olive oil

Method

To make the dressing, place ingredients into a small processor and blitz until well combined.

Heat a small non-stick frying pan on medium and add torn prosciutto and cook until crispy. Remove prosciutto and set aside.

Heat saucepan with salted water, add the asparagus and cook for 1-2 minutes. Drain and refresh in iced water and then drain again and place on absorbent paper.

Arrange the lettuce, spinach and rocket leaves on 4 plates. Toss through asparagus, goats cheese and dressing.

Top with crispy prosciutto and serve.

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Serving Suggestions

Note

• You can use any cheese you like, but goats cheese is naturally lower in fat than cow’s cheese and is incredibly soft and creamy.
• Now before you go all “eewww, I hate anchovies!”, stay with me cause I don’t like them in much else but dressings and sauces either. This dressing is one you’ll make again and again – it’s salty, zesty and packed full of flavour with no fishy anchovy taste. Trust me.
• Recipe written by Jay Rogers from The Moodie Foodie. You can follow The Moodie Foodie on Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest.