Do you know those meals made out of random ingredients left in your fridge? I have started writing those down because they are often some of the best things and are, otherwise, pretty hard to repeat.
This is a salad made out of things that I always have on hand, even if I am out of everything else: cheese, fruit, some vegetables.
You’ll need:
- 3 small red beets – peeled, boiled, cooled
- 1/2 pink grapefruit
- approx 1/3 cup mild goat cheese (however you measure the log that you have)
- one ripe tomato
- 1/4 cup chopped mint
- olive oil
- 1 t red wine vinegar
- salt
1. Section and clean the grapefruit. Chop mint and mix with the grapefruit in a bowl, set aside.
2. Thinly slice the tomatoes and season with a little bit of salt. Slice the goat cheese and beets as thinly as you can.
3. Mix together a quick vinaigrette with the grapefruit juice and mint that’s reserved in the bowl, vinegar, and olive oil.
4. Layer the vegetables with the cheese, alternating as you go, and drizzle with dressing before serving.
How colorful and fresh looking.
Thanks! Impromptu, but came out very pretty.
I love beets! I do this all the time, improvising delicious salads with whatever I have available in my fridge. This looks so refreshing 🙂
Isn’t it the best? And you get a bit of satisfaction from making up something out of nothing :).
YUM! I love these sorts of dishes. Like you said, it’s a good thing to start writing them down. I just recently did a ping back on this really simple salad we do in Syria that’s still so flavorsome 🙂 You can find the link in my most recent kabaab post 🙂
Hope you share more of these type of recipes!
Great, I’ll have to check it out!
Must be some sort of serendipity here, I’ve been craving a grapefruit salad lately.. this looks like the perfect one since I have beets in the fridge right now:)
Perfect! Enjoy 🙂
Nice name! The salad looks delicious.
haha thanks 🙂 very spur of the moment!
Is it really that easy to mix up a salad? A combination of flavours I would be a little apprehensive to try on, but if you say it’s good I have to believe you!
I think if you have quality ingredients and maintain a fundamental balance – the sweet beets vs the tart grapefruit + creamy cheese, refreshing mint and tomatoes – you’re good to go!
Some of our best food creations come about from shear necessity. Your salad sounds like it was very good and certainly looks great.
Thank you, Karen!