Spanish Roasted Pepper and Goat Cheese Salad

goat cheese

🥗Healthier: feta cheese

💰Cheaper: ricotta cheese

Feta cheese offers a similar tangy flavor, while ricotta is more budget-friendly.

olive oil

🥗Healthier: avocado oil

💰Cheaper: canola oil

Avocado oil is healthier with a higher smoke point, while canola oil is more economical.

Cut the romaine lettuce leaves one by one, stacking them from largest to smallest.

Tightly roll the stacked leaves like a cigar and cut them down the middle, then chop the lettuce.

Rinse the chopped lettuce under cold water to remove excess dirt.

Use a salad spinner to dry the lettuce and transfer it into a shallow bowl.

Thinly slice 1/2 of a purple onion and add it on top of the lettuce.

Top the salad with 2 tablespoons of toasted pumpkin seeds.

Pat dry 4 jarred roasted red peppers with paper towels and stuff each pepper with small medallions of goat cheese.

Add the stuffed peppers on top of the salad and season with sea salt and freshly cracked black pepper.

Place a medallion of goat cheese in the middle of the salad.

Thinly slice 2 cloves of garlic and pan fry them with 1 tablespoon of extra virgin Spanish olive oil until golden but not burned.

Top off the entire salad with some extra virgin Spanish olive oil.

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