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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.

23K 6 3.7

Last modified on: May 12^th 2019

Keywords for this recipe:Slad Endives Spring Croutons Cheese Spring onions

For 4 people, you will need:

1 1 spring onion (scallion)
2 500 g endives (head of chicory)
3 2 slices bread
4 50 g cheese
5 2 tablespoons olive oil
6 chives
7 5 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)
Total weight: 880 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
24 min.	7 min.	31 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #1

Thinly slice 1 spring onion (scallion).

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #2

Prepare 500 g endives (head of chicory) and shred by slicing thinly.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #3

Cut 2 slices bread into small cubes.

Stage 4 - 4 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #4

Dice the cheese as well.

Stage 5 - 7 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #5

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.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #6

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.

Stage 7

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #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.

Keeping

Best eaten as soon as it is ready.

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 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 1.57 €
Per person : 0.39 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Endives (head of chicory): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Endive and beer soup, Individual creamy endive gratins, Endives , Endive and walnut salad, Gratin of Endives with Mont d'Or, ... All
	Cheese: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Grilled cheese, Potato wallets, Bisto-style canapés, Sliced cauliflower with 3 cheeses, Asparagus and spinach gratin, ... All
	French dressing (vinaigrette): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tahitian salad, Prawn salad with a crunch, Jerusalem artichoke salad, Grandma's salad, Eggs with mayonnaise, ... All
	Bread: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Warm autumn salad, Pan con tomate, Paimpol salad, Hot sesame-cream chicken tartines, Canapés of red mullet with poppy seeds, ... All

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