Blue cheese and chive dressing

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As blue cheese has a very strong flavour, it suits equally strong and bitter salad leaves such as chicory, rocket and radicchio

Ingredients

• 75 g (3 oz) blue cheese (Stilton, Roquefort, Gorgonzola etc)
• 150 ml (1/4 pint) plain natural yogurt
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon freshly chopped chive
• Ground black pepper

Method

1. Remove the rind from the cheese and crumble into half of the yogurt
2. Add olive oil and lemon juice to the remaining yogurt and whisk to mix
3. Season with black pepper and sprinkle in the chopped chives

Serving suggestions

Pour generously over salad leaves

Salad dressing recipes

We have number of good recipes for salad dressings, use them as a starting point for your own creations:

• Salad dressing oil to vinegar ratio
• Basic vinaigrette
• Sherry vinegar salad dressing
• Blue cheese and chive dressing
• Mustard dressing
• Thyme and sour cream dressing
• Thousand Island dressing

Salads with dressing recipes included

• Frankfurter salad with mustard dressing
• Apple and walnut salad with Somerset Camembert dressing
• Potato salad with a mustard and caraway dressing
• Salad of Ayrshire royals, feta and watercress, yoghurt dressing

See also

• Our dips and sauces category