This recipe uses nut cheeses which are available in my Raw Nut Cheese Recipes eBook (just fold in some spirulina to the basic macadamia cheese recipe). A ‘deeper dive’ into making raw nut cheeses and the actual macadamia blue cheese recipe can be found here.
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Waldorf Salad with Macadamia Blue Cheese
This awesome Waldorf Salad is very delicious and nutritious too. Its easy to make and perfect for any meal.
Servings2 as a main course, 4 as a starter
Nutrition (For one serving)
Calories: 963kcalCarbohydrates: 52gProtein: 18gFat: 83gSaturated Fat: 10gSodium: 663mgPotassium: 1622mgFiber: 15gSugar: 28gVitamin A: 29347IUVitamin C: 48mgCalcium: 237mgIron: 7mg
Ingredients
Salad
- 1 head romaine lettuce or other favorite lettuce, large
- 1 cup watercress
- 1 cup grapes mixed seedless, cut in half
- 1 apple diced
- 2 sticks celery finely diced
- 1 cup walnuts roughly broken up
- 1/2 cup parsley fresh flat-leaf
Dressing
- 1/2 tsp mustard powder
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/4 cup cashews soaked for 20 minutes or 1/4 cup almond butter
- 1/2 tsp salt Himalayan
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Tear the lettuce and watercress by hand and transfer to a bowl with the grapes and celery.
- Chop the tough stalks off the parsley and then finely chop the leaves, adding them to your bowl.
- Put all the dressing ingredients, along with the parsley stalks, into a blender and blend until smooth.
- Put enough dressing into the bowl so that all the leaves are lightly covered. Toss, add the walnuts and toss the salad lightly again.
- Transfer to your serving plates and then finish with a little of the macadamia blue cheese. If you don’t have the macadamia blue cheese, a quick macadamia Parmesan recipe can be made by grating 1/2 cup unsoaked macadamias on a microplane and mixing in 2 teaspoons nutritional yeast and 1/2 teaspoon salt. This looks great sprinkled over the top.
- Optional: A few good chunks of macadamia cheese.
Notes
As an optional step with the walnuts, you can soak them for 20 minutes. Then drain and rinse, followed by a toss in 1 teaspoon garlic powder, 1 tablespoon onion powder and 1/2 teaspoon fine Himalayan salt. Then dehydrate at 115 degrees F for 12 hours. When they are completely dried, roughly break them up by hand.
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Lauren c says
This is the first raw dressing I’ve made that I wasn’t super in love with. It was a bit better mixed in with the salad, but straight out of the vitamix it was a bit tart in a bad way, maybe too much apple cider? Surprising, I’m usually very into cider vinegar and strong tastes in general. Who knows, maybe I’m just getting sick and my taste buds are off
min says
hi Russell, made the Ceaser salad, wow it was wonderful! I did add some small tomatoes and diced cucumber. everyone loved it even hubby who doesn’t like lots of the raw dishes.
Jason says
Wow! This is a great recipe! Thanks for sharing!
Helen Parkinson says
I have just bought the nut cheese recipe book expecting it to have the blue cheese recipe in it but it does not. It doesn’t even have just a plan macadamia nut cheese in it.
Russell James says
Hi Helen, it does have the plain macadamia cheese recipe in it, on page 8. You can make that recipe and then add a little spirulina to make this cheese.
spankey says
how much is “a little”? I’m not very creative, I need to be told. 🙂
Russell James says
1/2 a teaspoon 🙂
Patrick Timpone says
Hi Russel! For the apple cider vinegar do you use Braggs or other kinds?
Russell James says
Yes, you can use Braggs or any raw, unpasteurised acv with the ‘mother’ culture still it in (like Braggs has).
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Kirsten says
Thanks for the recipe Russell, just made this for dinner – didn’t have any grapes so used an avocado instead mmm mmm
Russell James says
Hi Kirsten…sounds amazing!
Deirdre Braddock says
Russell,
You had a special going for a while such that someone on a budget could name their own price for the DVD set. When will you offer that again?
Russell James says
Hi Deirdre, thanks for asking – it wasn’t a special offer so much as a trial, which I currently don’t have any plans on doing again right now. I still do that on my eBooks though https://therawchef.com/rawfood-ebook.html
Ofes says
The Raw Nut Cheese book does not have the Macadamia blue cheese.
Russell James says
Hi Ofes, It doesn’t – but you can simply take the basic macadamia cheese recipe from that eBook and gently fold in some spirulina to get the ‘mold’ effect.
That’s essentially the recipe.
Ofes says
thanks
LorieBReed says
I too have the recipe book on cheese and do not have the blue cheese recipe you spoke of; suggestion?
Russell James says
Hi Lorie, see my answer above, thanks.
Chefalyssa says
Looks amazing Russell thanks! Where can I find the recipe for the mac nut blue cheese? I bought your cheese e-book, which I love..but I don’t recall that recipe on there…
Russell James says
Hi Alyssa, see my answer at the top of these comments, thanks.
Chefalyssa says
Thanks!