Best Gorgonzola Salad Dressing Recipes

BUTTER LETTUCE SALAD WITH GORGONZOLA AND PEAR DRESSING

Steps:

• For the dressing: In a blender, blend together the oil, pear nectar, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, diced pear, cheese, salt and pepper until smooth.
• For the salad: Place the lettuce wedges on 4 salad plates. Arrange the avocado, pear slices, hazelnuts and cranberries around the lettuce. Drizzle with the dressing and serve.

ROMAINE AND GORGONZOLA SALAD WITH ROASTED GARLIC DRESSING AND SPICED PECANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Toss oil with garlic in small baking dish. Cover dish tightly with foil. Bake until garlic is golden and tender, about 45 minutes. Cool. Squeeze garlic from skins. Reserve oil.
• Transfer roasted garlic to processor. Add honey, vinegar, cider and mustard and blend well. With processor running, slowly add reserved garlic oil. Season dressing to taste with salt and pepper.
• Toss lettuce with 1/2 cup Gorgonzola cheese and enough dressing to coat. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup cheese and Spiced Pecans and serve.

ICEBERG WEDGE SALAD WITH CREAMY GORGONZOLA DRESSING

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl combine the sour cream, mayonnaise, and gorgonzola. Using a wooden spoon, stir the mixture to combine the cheese through the mixture. Loosen up the mix with the buttermilk, a tablespoon at a time, until it comes to a salad dressing consistency. Season the mix with salt, and pepper, to taste. Stir in the fresh herbs.
• Place a wedge of lettuce on a plate, coat liberally with the blue cheese dressing, and crumble some cooked bacon on top of the dressing. Dress each plate with 2 halved tomatoes, some blue cheese, and season with a little bit of salt and pepper.

GORGONZOLA SALAD DRESSING / DIP

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together with hand mixer.
• Refrigerate to blend flavors.
• Use as dip or salad dressing.

TOSSED GREEN SALAD WITH GORGONZOLA & PEAR DRESSING

Steps:

• To prepare the dressing:
• In a blender or food processor, puree the.
• drained pear halves with the lemon juice, vinegar, olive oil, salt and pepper until very smooth and silky.
• Transfer to a jar, cover andrefrigerate.
• To prepare the salad: Place the chopped walnuts in a small dry skillet. Toast over medium heat about 4 minutes, until fragrant. Remove from the pan and set aside.
• Place the salad mix in a bowl and cover with a paper towel. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
• Peel the tough outer skin from the bell pepper with a vegetable peeler. You probably won't be able to get all of the peeling off, especially in the crevices of the pepper. Stem, seed and finely sliver the pepper; put.
• into the bowl with the salad.
• Just before serving, core and dice the pear and add to the salad with the walnuts and Gorgonzola. Add the dressing, toss to coat and serve.

PAN-FRIED BALSAMIC PEAR SALAD WITH PANCETTA, GORGONZOLA AND A WARM HONEY DRESSING

Steps:

• Distribute the arugula evenly among four serving plates.
• Put the pancetta into a medium skillet over medium-high heat and cook until really crispy, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove and drain on paper towels.
• Put 2 tablespoons butter and the oil into the skillet and reduce the heat to low. When the butter has melted, place the pears in the pan and season with salt and pepper and 2 tablespoons honey. Turn up the heat to medium and cook until the pears are lightly caramelized, about 5 minutes. Add 1 tablespoon vinegar and cook for another minute. Remove the pears from the pan, reserving any juices that may be left.
• Arrange the pears and pancetta on top of the arugula so each serving has 4 pear quarters and 4 slices pancetta.
• Put the pan back on medium heat and add the remaining 1 tablespoon butter, remaining 1 tablespoon honey, remaining 2 tablespoons vinegar, mustard, pine nuts, salt and pepper. Cook briefly until the dressing is heated through. Pour the dressing over the salads, then scatter over the gorgonzola crumbles. Serve immediately.

PEAR SALAD WITH GORGONZOLA DRESSING

Steps:

• Divide arugula between 4 plates and top with pears.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine vinegar, oil, honey, sour cream and yogurt. Fold in Gorgonzola. Drizzle dressing over salad. Garnish each plate with walnuts and serve.

ENDIVE AND PEAR SALAD WITH GORGONZOLA CREAM DRESSING

Steps:

• Whisk 3 tablespoons vinegar, oil and honey in large bowl to blend. Add endive and pear and toss to coat. Blend sour cream, yogurt and remaining 1 tablespoon vinegar in medium bowl; mix in cheese. Season dressing to taste with salt and pepper.
• Mound pear salad on platter. Top with dressing, then nuts and chives.

FARFALLE AND BROCCOLI SALAD WITH GORGONZOLA DRESSING

Steps:

• Cook broccoli stems in large pot of boiling salted water 2 minutes. Add florets and cook until stems and florets are crisp-tender, about 2 minutes longer. Using slotted spoon, transfer broccoli to strainer. Refresh under cold water. Drain.
• Bring same pot of water to boil. Add pasta; cook until just tender but still firm to bite. Drain. Rinse under cold water.
• Whisk mayonnaise, sour cream, and vinegar in large bowl. Add half of Gorgonzola cheese. Using rubber spatula, mash until cheese is almost smooth. Stir in remaining cheese. Add pasta, green onions, celery, parsley, and broccoli; toss to coat. Season salad to taste with salt and pepper. Cover and refrigerate until cold, about 2 hours. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Keep refrigerated.)

TWISTED ICEBERG LETTUCE SALAD WITH WARM GORGONZOLA DRESSING

Steps:

• Make the blue cheese sauce. In a small pot add the 3 tablespoons of butter and melt, add the shallots and cook 2-3 minutes until lightly soft. Add the cheese, sauce, cream and 1/4 teaspoon black pepper. Cook on low on the back burner until you are ready to serve.
• Saute the chopped or diced bacon until nice and crispy remove and drain on a paper towel and set to the side.
• Marinating the chopped vegetables. Chop the olives (or you can buy them pre chopped), chop the cucumber and red onion. Toss in a mixing cup of anything you want with just 1 teaspoon of Italian vinaigrette. You don't need much and you don't want to soak the vegetables. Just a light seasoning and then chill.
• As the vegetables marinade, now the tomatoes. Either on the stove in a saute pan or in a 400 degree oven, cut the grape or cherry tomatoes in half, drizzle a little olive oil on them, salt and pepper and cook just until slightly cooked. Just 5-7 minutes tops. Don't over cook, you want them warm but not "too soft or mushy.".
• Lets put it together -- Now put your wedge on a nice plate with the chilled wedge, then top with some of the roasted tomatoes which should be slightly warm, top with some of the marinated cucumber, olive and onion mix. Then top with the warm gorgonzola sauce and top with chopped bacon.
• It just takes the classic and makes it even better, the warm dressing is so good against the chilled marinated chopped vegetables and chilled lettuce.

SPINACH SALAD WITH WARM GORGONZOLA DRESSING

Steps:

• In a small bowl whisk together all dressing ingredients, season with salt and pepper to taste; set aside.
• Place the baby spinach in a large glass bowl, and toss with black pepper and a small amount of salt (or omit the salt).
• Arrange the sliced mushrooms, sliced onions and olives on top (you can cover and chill while making the bacon and warmed cheese mixture).
• In a frypan cook the bacon pieces until crisp; remove to a paper towel and pour off all but 2 tablespoons bacon drippings.
• Reduce the heat to low.
• Add in the cheese, whipping cream and the wine vinegar/Dijon mixture; stir until cheese has melted and the mixture is smooth (DO NOT BOIL!).
• Pour the warm dressing over the salad, or serve on the side.
• Sprinkle with cooked bacon.

WARM SPINACH SALAD WITH PANCETTA AND GORGONZOLA DRESSING

Steps:

• For the dressing, place vinegar, shallots, garlic and mustard in a medium size bowl and mix well.
• Slowly mix in the olive oil to blend.
• Season with cracked black pepper and set aside.
• Now for the salad, take the chopped pancetta and saute it until crisped and place on paper towels.
• On medium heat, place a large stainless bowl directly on the flame. Add.
• your dressing to the bowl then add the remaining salad ingredients and toss lightly.
• Divide onto 4 plates and serve.

SIMPLE GORGONZOLA CHEESE SALAD DRESSING

Steps:

• Crunble gorgonzola cheese into a food processor and add vinegar; run the machine until mixture is smooth.
• With the machine running,(DO NOT ADD OIL ALL AT ONCE)Add oil in a thin stream very slowly to emulsify.
• Taste, if needed add some salt.
• Tranfer oil to small jar; Serve over mixed greens & fruit.

SPINACH, CRANBERRY, CANDIED WALNUT, AND GORGONZOLA SALAD WITH SHERRY WINE VINEGAR DRESSING

Steps:

• Candied Walnuts: Preheat oven to 325°F. Spray baking sheet with nonstick spray. Combine walnuts and all remaining ingredients in medium bowl; toss to coat. Spread nut mixture on prepared baking sheet (some nuts may clump together). Bake until nuts are deep golden and sugar mixture is bubbling, stirring occasionally to break up clumps, about 15 minutes. Cool completely on baking sheet. Sherry Wine Vinaigrette: Whisk both oils, vinegar and shallot in small bowl to blend. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Combine large bag of spinach, 1 cup of dried cranberries, and 1 cup of crumbled Gorgonzola cheese and toss with a few tablespoons of dressing.

GORGONZOLA AND PEAR SALAD WITH HONEY DIJON DRESSING

Steps:

• Place lettuce on serving platter. Top with tuna, cheese, walnuts and pear slices.
• Drizzle Dijon dressing over salad.

CHICKEN LIVERS ON SPINACH SALAD WITH GORGONZOLA DRESSING AND POLENTA CROUTONS

Steps:

• In a hot skillet with oil sear livers until medium rare. Place on paper towel. Place spinach in a bowl. In a second bowl mash Gorgonzola cheese. Whisk in oil and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper. Drizzle about 4 ounces of Gorgonzola dressing over spinach and toss.
• Follow directions on box of instant polenta, steeping rosemary branch in water first. Remove rosemary and pour polenta onto sheet pan that is about 1 inch deep. Let set and cool. Cut polenta into 1 inch cubes and dust with flour. Fry in heavy skillet or deep fryer until golden brown.
• Garnish spinach salad with croutons, balsamic syrup, basil oil, and diced sun dried tomatoes.
• Lay chicken livers on top of salad

SWEET AND BITTER GREENS SALAD WITH GORGONZOLA BLUE CHEESE DRESSING

Steps:

• Combine the lettuce and walnuts. In a small bowl, whisk oil into vinegar. Stir in the cheese and pear slices. Toss salad and season with salt and pepper, to your taste.

ENDIVE AND PEAR SALAD WITH GORGONZOLA CREAM DRESSING

Steps:

• Whisk 3 tablespoons vinegar, oil and honey in a large bowl to blend.
• Add endive and pear and toss to coat.
• Blend sour cream, yogurt and remaining1 tablespoons of cider vinegar in medium bowl; mix in cheese.
• Season with salt and pepper to taste.
• Mound salad on plater and top with dressing, then nuts and chives.

GORGONZOLA PEAR SALAD WITH MERLOT SHALLOT DRESSING

Steps:

• Combine shallots and wine in a medium sauce pan over high heat. Bring liquid to a boil. Reduce heat to medium and simmer until reduced to 1/4 cup, about 20 to 30 minutes.
• Let mixture cool completely. Add vinegar, sugar, garlic and mustard. Slowly whisk in olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Refrigerate dressing until ready to serve.
• In a large bowl, mix baby lettuce, cheese, walnuts and bacon. Add pears and toss with Merlot Shallot Dressing just before serving.

PIATTI’S GORGONZOLA SALAD DRESSING

Steps:

• Combine crumbled cheese, mayonnaise, buttermilk and Worcestershire sauce together in a medium-size bowl. Add salt and pepper to taste. Cover and refrigerate until serving time. Serve over a salad of crisp greens such as romaine or iceberg. Makes about 2 cups