14 Easy Goat Cheese Recipe ideas you’ll love
Goat cheese appetizers and salads: easy goat cheese recipe ideas perfect for a party or a quick lunch.
One of the many things we brought home from out family trips to France is a love for goat cheese!
In France, we learned to love it in the form of chèvre but goat cheese comes in so many forms, once we opened the Pandora’s box of goat cheese recipes, we realised we loved it all: smooth, crumbly, plain, with herbs…
These are 22 recipes with goat cheese we love.
Goat Cheese & beetroot Salad
- Roasted beets
- Goat cheese
- Lamb Lettuce (corn salad leaves)
- Walnuts
- Dressing: olive oil, balsamic
This one works well with fresh goat cheese but also with more salty and crumbly varieties such as feta-like cheeses.
Warm goat cheese and baby spinach salad
- Oven-roasted goat cheese medallions (score the cheese, place it on baking paper, score the top and lightly roast in the oven until warm and starting to melt slightly)
- Baby spinach leaves
- Cherry tomatoes, halved
- Roasted almonds
- Dressing: honey and olive oil
The best cheese for this one, in my opinion, is round logs of cheese with a firm, edible rind.
Goat Cheese, Pear, and Walnut salad
- Baby Spinach leaves
- Sliced or diced pear (peeled)
- Goat cheese
- Walnuts
- Dressing: honey and lemon vinaigrette
Lamb Lettuce, Goat Cheese, and Pomegranate Seeds
- Lamb Lattuce (corn salad leaves)
- Crumbled goat cheese
- Pomegranate seeds
- Dressing: lemon and olive oil dressing.
The combination with pomegranate seeds works exceptionally well as they add a little touch of sweetness and crunch to this otherwise very simple dish.
Goat cheese, beet and arugula crostini
- Lightly grilled baguette slices
- Goat cheese
- Roates beet
- Leaves of Arugula salad (rocket)
Broccoli and Goat Cheese salad
- Lightly steam broccoli florets
- Goat cheese
- Cherry tomatoes, halved
- Sesame seeds
- Dressing: olive oil
For a nuttier flavor, I like to leave the broccoli florets almost raw, only lightly steaming them.
Goat Cheese and Fig salad
- Lettuce
- Arugula (rocket)
- Goat cheese
- Prosciutto (optional, but Parma Ham works well with figs, if you want to add proteins, as its sweetness balances out the sharper kick of the arugula)
- Fresh figs (halved)
- Walnuts
- Dressing: olive oil or balsamic (but careful not to drench the prosciutto with it, keep the balsamic on the leaves and the figs only)
Goat cheese and spinach puffs
- Puff pastry
- Goat cheese
- Spinach
- Nutmeg
- Method: Lightly sautéed the spinach, seasoning with salt and nutmeg to taste. Drain excess moisture, then mix with your goat cheese, then use as a filling for ready made puff pastry. Oven cook until done. This is a goat cheese variation of the traditional Italian spinach and ricotta puffs: the result is very similar, but the ricotta makes the taste a little milder: the goat cheese is, usually, a little more tangy
Goat Cheese, Quinoa and Roasted Vegetable salad
- Quinoa
- Roasted carrots
- Roasted zucchini
- Roasted sweet red peppers
- Arugula (rocket)
- Pumping seeds
- Dressing: olive oil and black pepper
Goat cheese and arugula prosciutto wraps
- Parma ham
- Goat cheese
- Arugula (rocket)
- Grissini (optional)
Goat Cheese and Apple Salad
- Baby spinach leaves
- Thinly sliced apples
- Goat cheese
- Roasted almonds
- Dressing: lemon and olive oil vinaigrette or cider vinaigrette (not too much of the apple flavor will be overpowering)
Goat Cheese & Grilled Nectarine
- Arugula (rocket)
- Grilled nectarines (sliced; I like to make them in quarters)
- Goat cheese
- Pecans
- Dressing: honey and lemon or balsamic
Goat Cheese & Caramelized Red Onion
- Baby spinach leaves
- Goat cheese
- Caramelized red onions
- Sunflower seeds
- Dressing: olive oil
Smoked Salmon and Goat Cheese crostini
- Lightly grilled baguette slices (or crackers)
- Goats cheese
- Smoked salmon
- Capers
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