I love this simple blue cheese salad with blueberries! You’ll make our easy creamy salad dressing and then toss it with salad greens, blueberries, walnuts, and delicious blue cheese!
Skip the store-bought bottle of salad dressing and make our easy creamy vinaigrette. It’s absolutely perfect for this simple salad with blue cheese, blueberries, and walnuts.
For more easy salad recipes, see our balsamic strawberry salad or this seriously good steak salad. And if you love blue cheese like me, don’t miss our homemade blue cheese dressing!
Key Ingredients
- Lettuce: Use your favorite salad greens. For this simple salad, I love mild baby lettuces like butter, red leaf, or even baby bok choy.
- Blueberries: Fresh blueberries are fantastic when in season, but if they’re hard to find, try other fruits like strawberries, chopped apples, or dried blueberries. I use strawberries for this strawberry iceberg salad with blue cheese.
- Walnuts: Toasted walnuts add a buttery, mild flavor that complements the blue cheese. Toast them before adding to the salad to enhance their taste.
- Blue Cheese: I recommend creamy Gorgonzola or Danish blue cheese for this salad, but feel free to use your favorite variety.
- Simple Dressing: This easy dressing is similar to my balsamic vinaigrette. Whisk together sour cream, red wine vinegar, olive oil, Dijon mustard, and strawberry jam for a creamy, bright, and slightly sweet dressing.
- Optional Protein: To turn this into a dinner-worthy salad, consider adding roasted shrimp, juicy chicken breast, poached salmon, marinated steak, or this baked tofu!
Blue Cheese Salad with Blueberries
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Our blue cheese salad is so simple. Enjoy it as written, or add your favorite protein, such as chicken breast, poached salmon, or baked tofu. Make sure you taste along the way when it comes to the dressing. We love our dressings on the acidic side, but if that’s too much for you, add more sour cream, jam, or olive oil to balance it out.
You Will Need
4 cups (180g) baby lettuce leaves
1/2 cup (75g) blueberries
1/4 cup (30g) walnut halves, lightly toasted
1 ounce (28g) blue cheese, crumbled
2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 teaspoon strawberry jam
Salt and fresh ground black pepper
Directions
1Toast walnuts in a dry skillet over medium heat, shaking frequently, until fragrant, browned, and not burned.
2Whisk the sour cream, red wine vinegar, olive oil, mustard, and jam in a large bowl. Taste and season with salt and a few grinds of black pepper.
3Pour about half of the dressing into a small bowl. Add lettuce, blueberries, walnuts, and cheese to the large bowl and gently toss. Add more dressing as needed.
Adam and Joanne's Tips
- The nutrition facts provided below are estimates.
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I love how simple yet flavorful this blue cheese salad sounds!
New Jersey actually produces a surprisingly large amount of good produce. Not something you’d expect, but their corn is particularly delish.
Great comment Erin, we were really happy with the blueberries and we always try to choose food that does not have to travel too far to get to us. I wish we could go to a market every time we shop, but unfortunately in January that is a bit difficult where we live.
By the way, now we are craving corn 🙂 with Old Bay…it’s a MD thing
Where are you finding blueberries this time of year? Lucky!
Looks like you had fun in Vegas. Having lived there for 18 years, I don’t see the appeal, but I must admit that Blue Man Group is awesome. 🙂
Hi Jessica, We found our blueberries in our local Giant. We had a choice of blueberries from somewhere in South America (I think Chile, but may be wrong) and New Jersey of all places…New Jersey is closer, so we bought them and they were really nice.
Our trip to Las Vegas was a few years ago, it was our college graduation trip.