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Lesley Waters from Great Food Bites
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Blue cheese and walnut bread with celery and apple salad

Blue Cheese and Walnut Bread with Celery and Apple Salad

Method

 
1. Preheat the oven to 190C/gas mark 5.

2. For the bread, sift the flours, bicarbonate of soda, salt, sugar and pepper into a large bowl.

3. Combine the melted butter with the milk. Make a well in the dry ingredients, pour in the liquid and, using your hands, mix to a soft dough. Add the cheese and walnuts and gently knead to combine.

4. Turn out onto a floured surface and shape into a rough oval, about 5cm thick. Place on a floured baking sheet and, using a sharp knife, slash the bread on the diagonal 3 times.

5. Dust with a little extra flour and bake for 40 minutes - the bread should be a golden brown colour and sound hollow when tapped. Leave to cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes.

6. For the celery salad, combine all the salad ingredients and season with black pepper. Transfer to a serving bowl.

7. Cut the bread into thick chunks and serve with the salad. If you're feeling indulgent, add an extra slab of blue cheese.

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intermediate
 
Serves: 4
vegetarian
Prep: 20 min
Cook: 40 min
 
 

Ingredients

225g wholemeal flour
225g plain flour
1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp caster sugar
1/2 tsp cracked black pepper
25g Butter, melted
300ml Milk
2 tsp cream of tartar
225g Shopshire blue, blue vinney or Stilton cheese, roughly crumbled
85g walnut pieces, lightly toasted

For the celery salad

6 sticks Celery, sliced on the diagonal
1 small red onion, finely chopped
2 Cox's apples, cored, roughly chopped
1 lemon, juice only
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 large handfuls Watercress, washed and picked over

 

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