Apetina is a new cheese to me.
I was delighted to be asked to make a new salad that would help our family nutrition by keeping the kids happy. Looking for the cheese to buy, I was quite surprised to find they also have gorgeous little snack pots.
The lovely looking Apetina Sun Dried Tomato Snack Pack and the Garlic and Olive Snack Pack also made it into my shopping trolley, along with a classic block. It really is worth a try, and also suitable for vegetarians.
The cheese crumbles with ease when it is being eaten and seems to absorb flavours well. Arla also make a light variety which I would have loved to try, but my local shop didn't have any left.
To keep my kids happy, a sharing dish is usually the best option, especially if I can put together all the ingredients that I know my kids love. They always pick from the big help yourselves dishes on the table.
Apetina Cheese – Summer Suncatcher Salad Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 x 200g tub of classic Apetina cheese
- 1 chinese leaf lettuce
- 150g grapes
- 200g strawberries
- 4 apricots
- 10 cherry tomatoes
- 15 cherries
- croutons
- olive oil
- sour cream
Method
Salads are just so easy to make. The first step is washing all salad ingredients and placing the lettuce in the bottom of the bowl, to make a bed for the rest of the salad to sit on.
- Drizzle a little olive oil onto the lettuce.
- Spread a little sour cream over the surface.
- Cut strawberries into quarters.
- Half the cherry tomatoes.
- De-stone the apricots and cut them into quarters.
- Sprinkle the fruit and tomatoes onto the bed of lettuce.
- Drain a tub of Apetina cheese and place on the salad.
- Top with cherries and croutons.
- Serve with sour cream as a side dish.
In our house, this was a success as I used the fruit that my kids love to mix with the cheese. I like mixing fruit and veg where they work well together and salads are perfect for that. We had a suncatcher that we made a few weeks ago on the window, so my boys named the salad the suncatcher as it had such lovely colours and looked spectacular on the table.
My Apetina recipe will be entered into the contest over on the Apetina Facebook page. It will also be featured in the Recipe section of the website.
If you like the Facebook page, and vote for your favourite salad of the week, you'll be entered into a prize draw to win this fabulous picnic hamper. Inside the basket, there will be a salad bowl with servers, and a dressing bottle.
The final week prize will be a BBQ, so head on over using the Apetina link to vote.
I love your salad recipe! This seems so delicious and appetizing! Thanks for sharing this and the fabulous hamper giveaway!
I love fruit & cheese…great combination!
That salad looks lovely. I’ll have to do one of my own now I have a website.