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Grilled Peach Salad with Blue Cheese, Toasted Almonds, Peach Vinaigrette

August 31, 2013 by Angela Roberts 12 Comments

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Grilled Peach Salad with Blue Cheese and Toasted Almonds by Angela Roberts

If you need to have the perfect salad to offset a spicy Indian dinner, a grilled nectarine (or peach) salad with peachy vinaigrette and toasted almonds is perfect. Perfect because the juicy, sweetness of the fruit and the boost of flavor from the blue cheese works well with any rich, fatty food or spicy food. You can use nectarines or peaches, because they are practically the same fruit.

The difference between nectarines and peaches is basically the peach fuzz. Nectarines carry a recessive (no fuzz) gene and this is how nectarines have come to be. Did you know that sometimes a peach tree will produce a nectarine fruit and sometimes a nectarine tree will produce a few fuzzy peaches.

I intended this to be just a peach trio, but I planted a nectarine tree, and to my great surprise I got fruit the first year, against all odds and bad conditions. Armed with peaches and nectarines for my challenge, I made everything and took it to a dinner party where my neighbors, who are from India, were making Tandori chicken, Rice byriani and a very spicy green chile yogurt sauce. It was all delicious, and at the end of the night, hardly a bite of food remained.

This Peach salad was the star of the entire evening, even beating my peach tart and amazing skillet blueberry cobbler, not to mention the seconds and thirds of chicken and rice that people were eating. This salad was so good, that we all found ourselves fighting over the last few bites using our fingers to grab pieces out of the main bowl.

How to Grill Nectarines and Peaches.

The first thing I had to decide was how to cut the fruit. Keeping the skin on, I made knife cuts across the fruit all the way around and pulled each ring off. This results in beautiful pieces that have that gorgeous red ring in the center. I brushed them with a a mixture of olive oil and chile paste for a little zing and grilled at high heat about four minutes a side (you may have to do less, depending on the fruit). The recipe for grilling fruit is here.

Grilled Peach Salad with Blue Cheese and Toasted Almonds

Assembling the Salad

The most important thing in a salad is getting the dressing right and premixing. Nothing irks me more than to go to a nice restaurant and be served a salad with a dressing on the side. A salad must be tossed thoroughly with dressing, but not to much dressing, so it takes practice to get it right. I am absolutely adamant that a salad will never be as good with dressing on the side as a tossed salad, and I always toss my salad about twenty minutes ahead of the dinner.

Enjoy this peach salad with blue cheese and a peach vinaigrette at your next barbecue or along side a spicy chili.

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Grilled Nectarine or Peach Salad with Blue Cheese, Toasted Almonds, Peach Vinaigrette

A peachy salad with blue cheese, grilled fruit, perfect alone or as a side for a spicy dish.
Prep Time10 mins
Cook Time5 mins
Total Time15 mins
Course: Salad
Cuisine: American
Servings: 4
Author: Angela Roberts

Ingredients

  • 2 peaches or nectarines
  • chili paste
  • 1 head Romaine lettuce
  • 1/4 cup toasted sliced almonds
  • 1 - 2 ounces of crumbled blue cheese
  • grilled peaches found here

Peach Vinaigrette

  • 1/4 cup mimosa champagne vinegar can use white vinegar
  • 1 tablespoon peach jam or jelly
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 1/2 cup lemon olive oil can use regular olive oil
  • sea salt
  • freshly ground back pepper

Instructions

  • Grill nectarines or peaches. If you don't have a grill, place under broiler on high for five minutes.

Peach Vinaigrette

  • Mix together vinegar, mustard and jelly. If you don't have peach preserves or jam, you can use fresh peach slices, grilled first.
  • Mix peach preserves with vinegar and mustard. Mix in mini blender.
  • Slowly add the olive oil, while whisking, or put all in jar and shake.

Assemble Salad

  • Wash and dry romaine lettuce. Tear into pieces about 2 inches or bite size.
  • Mix lettuce with crumbled blue cheese and most of toasted almonds, saving both a little bit of blue cheese and almonds for garnish on top.
  • Add dressing, just enough to wet the lettuce, using hands.
  • Season with salt and pepper.
  • Arrange grilled fruit on top with a little crumbled blue cheese and toasted almonds.
  • Serve.

Notes

Note: This salad is also delicious served at room temperature and is great for taking to a pot luck or dinner. Dress salad, and garnish with fruit, cheese and nuts right before serving.

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Comments

  1. Sylvie @ Gourmande in the Kitchen says

    September 12, 2013 at 2:38 am

    I love using peaches and nectarines in savory dishes like salads, it’s such a nice way to change things up.

    Reply
  2. Victoria says

    September 3, 2013 at 10:00 am

    This looks SOOOOO refreshing! I love peaches in savory dishes, and this salad especially looks fantastic. I love that peaches are used in the dressing as well. Very nice 🙂

    Reply
  3. sippitysup says

    September 1, 2013 at 3:45 pm

    Ok. It happened again. Look what I posted today. XOGREG http://www.sippitysup.com/grilled-nectarines-fresh-mozzarella/

    Reply
  4. angela says

    September 1, 2013 at 9:11 am

    Girl, you have a great time. Wish you were coming to Nashville.

    Reply
  5. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says

    August 31, 2013 at 8:28 pm

    I didn’t realise that about both trees! Tour salad looks so refreshing. I’m winging my way across America in September so ill be enjoying the fruit! 🙂

    Reply
  6. bellini says

    August 31, 2013 at 7:22 pm

    Grilled fruit and peach vinaigrette sound heavenly to me.

    Reply
  7. Teresa Blackburn says

    August 31, 2013 at 1:33 pm

    Angela, The grilled fruit is fabulous! There is something so appealing about the idea of putting fruit on a grill and quickly cooking it isn’t there?
    This is definitely the weather for salads and simple recipes. I am pretty enchanted with your Peach Vinaigrette and think I will make some this weekend to try on my own version. Happy Labor Day to you.

    Reply
    • angela says

      September 1, 2013 at 9:11 am

      Hi Teresa, Happy Labor Day back. Grilling fruit is also handy when the fruit isn’t ripe enough. It sweetens it up.

      Reply

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