Recipe by Dominique Fonseca, Le Coq Hardi, Pouilly/Loire

Ingredients – Serves 4

  • 4 crottins de Chavignol (small round goat cheeses)
  • 200 g mixed leaf salad
  • 4 slices of country style bread
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 8 black olives
  • Vinaigrette dressing
  • Extra virgin olive oil

Method

Peel off the tomatoes and quarter them.  Lay the tomatoes in a lightly oiled roasting-tray. Add salt, pepper and olive oil.

Bake for 1 hour in a pre-heated oven (at 100° C).

Cut the goat cheese in half. On a tray, display half a goat cheese, 2 tomato petals, 2 olive rounds. Place the tray on the upper oven rack for the goat cheese to melt until it turns golden brown.

Toast the bread.

To serve
On a plate, display the mixed salad leaves, then the toasted bread, the hot goat cheese with the tomato petals and olive rounds, topping with a dash of olive oil.