Endive and cheese salad with croutons
This starts out as a classic salad of shredded endives, but is pepped up with sliced spring onions, fried croutons and chunks of cheese.
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Last modified on: May 12th 2019
Keywords for this recipe:For 4 people, you will need:
- 1
1 spring onion (scallion) - 2
500 ml endives (head of chicory) - 3
2 slices bread - 4
50 ml cheese - 5
2 tablespoons olive oil - 6
chives - 7
5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 24 min. | 7 min. | 31 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Thinly slice 1 spring onion (scallion).
Stage 2 - 10 min.
Prepare 500 ml endives (head of chicory) and shred by slicing thinly.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Cut 2 slices bread into small cubes.
Stage 4 - 4 min.
Dice the cheese as well.
Stage 5 - 7 min.
Pour 2 tablespoons olive oil into a small frying pan on high heat. When good and hot, add the bread cubes and fry until browned, stirring frequently.
Stage 6 - 2 min.
Put the endives, onions, croutons and cheese into a salad bowl.
Add some freshly chopped chives, then 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette) and mix well.
Add some freshly chopped chives, then 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette) and mix well.
Stage 7
Serve fairly quickly while the croutons are still crunchy.
Remarks
Use whatever cheese you have to hand or prefer, as this recipe is very flexible.
Instead of the olive oil, you can use clarified butter to give the bread a more marked flavour.
Instead of the olive oil, you can use clarified butter to give the bread a more marked flavour.
Keeping
Best eaten as soon as it is ready.
Source
Home made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,085 Kcal or 4,543 Kj | 27 gr | 101 gr | 98 gr |
| 54 % | 10 % | 10 % | 15 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 123 Kcal or 515 Kj | 3 gr | 12 gr | 11 gr |
| 6 % | 1 % | 1 % | 2 % |
| Per person | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 271 Kcal or 1,135 Kj | 7 gr | 25 gr | 24 gr |
| 14 % | 3 % | 2 % | 4 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 4 people : 1.57 €
- Per person : 0.39 €
Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Endives (head of chicory): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Endives "bonne femme", Gratin of Endives with Mont d'Or, Individual creamy endive gratins, How to prepare endives , Purple sprouting broccoli and endive salad, ... All |
 | Cheese: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Filo leeks and cheese tart, Langres-style spinach, French toast "cordon bleu", Grilled cheese, Involtini-Style Filet Mignon , ... All |
 | French dressing (vinaigrette): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Salad greens and small omelette, Tahitian salad, Bistro-style endive salad, Comtoise endive salad, Greek salad with chicken, ... All |
 | Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pizza dough, Fillets of sole Dieppoise, Gratin of beet tops and potatoes, Potimarron braised in meat jus, Greek salad, ... All |
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