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Blue Cheese Salad Dressing With Your Choice Of Ingredients
By Patricia Gorginas
Blue cheese salad dressing is quite popular these days. You can
make your own salad dressing with your choice of ingredients,
to add taste to your salads. You can even choose low fat blue
cheese and leave out the mayonnaise, to create a low calorie version.
You can buy many types of salad dressings and there are also
low calorie versions in many supermarkets, but if you need to
make the salad dressing to meet your specifications, then it is
easy to make your own. All you need is to buy the ingredients
and add crumbled blue cheese and voila! you have a delicious salad
dressing.
Some people are conscious of the high calorie count in many salad
dressings, so you can purchase a low calorie version of your favourite
dressing or when you are making your own low calorie salad dressing,
use low calorie ingredients and low fat blue cheese. If some of
these low calorie ingredients are not available at your favourite
supermarket, you should head to a health food store.
There are many ways to enjoy blue cheese, helping to improve
the taste of your salads and meals.
Indispensable Rich Dressing With The Taste Of Delicious Cheese
There are probably as many people who intensely dislike blue
cheese salad dressing as those who count this rich dressing as
indispensable. I admit to being of the latter persuasion.
So much so, that I’ve discovered a number of dishes besides the
salad with which to adorn a variety of foods with this scrumptious
taste. If you like blue cheese salad dressing, here are a few
other ways to put this cheese dressing to good use.
Making Your Own Blue Cheese Salad Dressing
While there are a couple of commercial brands suited to gourmet
applications, you’re money ahead to make your own. Most large
supermarkets have a gourmet cheese section, with tubs of the unadulterated
cheese.
You can buy a 6-ounce tub of crumbled blue cheese for about $4.
This may seem expensive, but when you price a bottled blue cheese
salad dressing, the cost is nearly the same, containing just a
fraction of the blue cheese contained in a tub.
Delicious Ways To USe Blue Cheese
So what do you do with this container of unadulterated blue cheese
to concoct a superior blue cheese salad dressing that may not
end up on a salad? Ah, many things. Let’s look at some of the
delicious ways to use blue cheese.
If you have a bread maker, it’s a simple matter to knead the
dough and add sprinklings of blue cheese to be integrated into
the dough at the point at which you’d add fruits. You can also
buy frozen ready-made doughs which only require allowing it to
rise.
Making An Excellent Sandwich Bread
When you punch the dough down, knead in just a couple of ounces
of blue cheese, reform the loaf and bake. This makes an excellent
sandwich bread, filled with roast beef, pastrami, some alfalfa
sprouts and spread with a bit of mayo. This bread also makes a
nice dessert plate, served with baked pears, sprinkled with blue
cheese.
Here’s a sensational variation on the burger, using a blue cheese
salad dressing. This goes especially well with bison burgers.
Take your tub of blue cheese and break it up with a fork, for
a smoother consistency to this thick blue cheese dressing. Mix
just enough mayonnaise, sour cream, or both to make a thick dressing.
Making Your Own Treat
Add a little white pepper. Broil or grill the burgers, adding
a slice of swiss cheese to melt once you’ve turned the burgers.
Toast the buns. Spread the buns with your dressing, put the burger
on top and garnish with a slice of tomato and a handful of mesclun.
Ooh-la-la, what a treat you have now!
You can apply this same blue cheese salad dressing recipe to
a boneless chicken breast. Cut a pocket in the chicken breast.
Stuff about two tablespoons of your dressing, mixed with freshly
snipped parsley, into the pocket. Bake until done and serve with
a side of rice and sauteed mushrooms for an elegant dinner.
Make A Veggie Dip
This blue cheese dressing also makes an excellent veggie dip.
Arrange an assortment of raw veggies, such as broccoli and cauliflower
florets, julienned sweet red or orange bell peppers and button
mushrooms. Set a small bowl of the blue cheese dressing in the
center of the plate, with cocktail toothpicks for a magnificent
and healthy appetizer.
Another simple and tasty appetizer can be made with large white
or brown mushrooms, stems removed and then filled with a dab of
your blue cheese mixture topped with bread crumbs. Broil until
the bread crumbs are just browned and serve.
If you’re a blue cheese lover, try some of these ways of adding
this delicious food to your menus. That 6 ounce container of blue
cheese salad dressing keeps well in the frig for about a week.
Making Savouries For Large Gatherings
So, the next time you have a large gathering and you want to
make some savouries, now you can make them with blue cheese. You
can even include them with crackers, close to your dips. Crackers
with cheese are very popular at many parties. It is easy to place
a number of dips, with a bowl of blue cheese, next to a bowl of
crackers.
If you are concerned about the calories in blue cheese, there
are low fat versions. Another option is to avoid the mayo, when
you are making the salad dressing, in order to reduce the number
of calories.
Making your own blue cheese salad dressing, ensures you are using
the most fresh ingredients with your choice of ingredients. If
your family has become diet conscious, then you can make a low
calorie blue cheese salad dressing by cutting out the mayo and
using low fat blue cheese.
About the Author:
Patricia Gorginas has written a number of articles on food and
cooking including Bachelorette
Party Ideas, Jalapeno
Stuffed Olives, Quick
and Easy Dinner Recipes, Cheese
Recipes, Boost
your metabolism, Spicy
Hot Peppers, Chocolate
Covered Strawberries, Muffin
Baskets, Chocolate
Covered Potato Chips, Italian
Food, Food
And Wine, French
Food.
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