Warm mushroom and Onion with goat cheese salad

My parents asked me to make them salad for dinner recently.  I was glad to do that, however, they didn’t have many interesting ingredients for me to use.  So I decided to be creative, I hunted for vegetables in their fridge. I found lettuce, mushrooms, sweet onion and goat cheese. I thought it would work for a warm onion and mushroom salad. The results were fantastic!! It was easy to prepare, needing just a bit of cooking time for the onion and mushroom.  This would go well with spinach or arugula as well.

Serve 3 to 4

2 cups mushrooms

1 sweet onion such as Vidalia

Lettuce (any kind)

2 tbsp goat cheese

3 tbsp seasoned rice vinegar

1.5 tbsp ponzu sauce

1 tbsp vegetable oil

1.    Thinly slice the onion and set aside.

2.    Take the stems off the mushrooms and thinly slice as well.

3.    Put oil in a large fry pan over the medium heat, when the oil is hot add onion and stir, then turn the heat to medium low.

4.    Stir onion often to keep it from becoming brown too fast. Meanwhile, wash lettuce and dry.

5.    Continue cooking onion until it becomes soft and slightly darker in colour -- about 10 minutes, add mushrooms and stir.

6.    The moment the mushroom become soft add rice vinegar and ponzu sauce. If you feel there isn’t enough sauce you can add more. Then turn the heat off.

7.    Break up the lettuce and put in the bowls then top with goat cheese however much you like. ( I usually put about 2 tbsp in the bowl and break up the goat cheese.)

Top with the onion and mushroom and serve immediately