Fresh Peach Salad – A Couple Cooks

This peach salad recipe is irresistibly recent! Pair the juicy fruit with cheese crumbles, toasted nuts, and a balsamic French dressing.

When it’s the season, you’ve acquired to grab it: make all of the peach recipes! Right here’s the recipe we run to typically: this recent Peach Salad recipe! This one is a standout, pairing juicy ripe peaches with a candy balsamic French dressing, punches of creamy goat cheese and nutty toasted almonds. Add pops of candy corn and savory crimson onion slivers and it’s a complete deal with! We polished this one off the minute we had been achieved taking these photographs, and we’ve been making all of it summer time lengthy.

Parts on this peach salad

A very powerful factor about this peach salad recipe? Solely use juicy ripe peaches. In the event that they’re exhausting once you give them a delicate squeeze, wait a number of extra days to make this salad: it’s price it! Right here’s what you’ll must put it collectively:

• Ripe peaches
• Toasted almonds: it’s price taking the additional jiffy to toast the almonds: it drastically enhances the nutty, crunchy taste
• Combined greens: we like a mixture of butter lettuce and different greens
• Pink onion: slice them French lower (length-wise) for finest presentation (right here’s a video!)
• Canned corn: canned is best, however when you occur to have leftover grilled corn it’s divine! You may also use recent corn lower from the cob.
• Goat cheese or feta cheese: it’s finest with chevre, however practically nearly as good with feta; omit for vegan.
• Balsamic French dressing: make it selfmade with balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard, maple syrup, salt, pepper and olive oil.

The way to ripen peaches

While you store for peaches, there’s quite a lot of variation in ripeness: you may discover them rock exhausting or so juicy they’re virtually bruising. If you happen to begin with exhausting peaches, you’ll want a number of days to ripen them (particularly in the event that they’re out of season). Right here’s what to do:

• Place the peaches in a paper bag.
• Add a banana contained in the bag. The banana emits ethylene gasoline, which helps the peaches ripen on the similar time.
• Gently shut the highest of the bag. This traps the gasses inside.
• Await 1 to five days, relying on the ripeness of the peaches. Test every day by gently squeezing the fruit to see if the flesh feels smooth.

For the dressing: make it selfmade!

You need to use a stand-in salad dressing from the shop right here, however one of the best dressing is selfmade! It’s easy to whisk collectively and tastes unbelievable. This one is a spin on our traditional Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing. All it is advisable do is:

• Whisk collectively balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard, maple syrup and salt and pepper.
• Regularly whisk in olive oil one tablespoon at a time till a creamy emulsion varieties. It’s so fast and easy, and the flavour is excellent: will probably be turn into your go-to.

Variations on this peach salad

This summery peach salad is ripe for riffing on (yep, we mentioned it). My mother not too long ago made it with varied substitutions and liked it. Listed here are a number of concepts for parts you may change out:

Extra summer time salads

Salads are king in the summertime! Listed here are a number of extra tasty summer time salads to strive: