Roasted Pear and Beet Salad with Watercress and Blue Cheese

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2000

High heat, butter, and sugar transform underripe pears into the centerpieces of unusual and delicious winter salads.

SERVES 4 to 6

TIME 2 hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

We preferred Bartlett or Anjou Pears in our pear salad recipe, roasting them al dente with butter and a little bit of sugar to sweeten them without making them syrupy. To complete our pear salad recipe, we combined the roasted fruit with bi...

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