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Endive and beer soup

For this soup, the endives (chicory) and onions are cooked gently together first before adding the vegetable stock and beer. The endives and beer give the soup a hint of bitterness and a unique flavour.

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Last modified on: January 12^th 2014

Keywords for this recipe:Soup Endives Chicory Beer Onion North Belgium

For 5 people, you will need:

1 50 g onion
2 500 g endives (head of chicory)
3 100 g potatoes
4 3 tablespoons olive oil
5 1 knob butter
6 750 ml Vegetable stock
7 250 ml beer
8 100 ml liquid cream
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 1,805 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Prepare and chop 50 g onion.

Stage 2 - 15 min.

Prepare 500 g endives (head of chicory) and cut into pieces.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Peel and rinse 100 g potatoes, then slice but do not rinse again.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Melt 1 knob butter in 3 tablespoons olive oil in a large pan on medium heat, then add the onions and endives, salt and pepper.

Cook without colouring, stirring frequently.

Stage 5 - 10 min.

Add 750 ml Vegetable stock and the potatoes. Bring to the boil.

Stage 6 - 20 min.

Add the beer, cover and leave to cook for 20 minutes.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Add 100 ml liquid cream to finish, then blend to give a smooth soup. Check the seasoning.

Stage 8

Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and garnished with a parsley leaf.

Remarks

Choose whatever beer you prefer, but preferably a light bitter or lager style.

No onions to hand? Just use shallots.

Keeping

A few days in the fridge in a selaed container.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,284 Kcal or 5,376 Kj	13 gr	90 gr	91 gr
64 %	5 %	8 %	14 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
71 Kcal or 297 Kj	1 gr	5 gr	5 gr
4 %	<1 %	<1 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
257 Kcal or 1,076 Kj	3 gr	18 gr	18 gr
13 %	1 %	2 %	3 %

% 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 5 people : 3.24 €
Per person : 0.65 €

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Source

Based on a recipe by Thibault Van Aerde.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Vegetable stock: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach, Curried prawn risotto, Fisherman's Ragout, Melt-in-the mouth meat and vegetables in a sealed casserole, Sautéed Green Vegetables, ... All
	Endives (head of chicory): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Endives , Endive gratin with cancoillotte, Purple sprouting broccoli and endive salad, Individual creamy endive gratins, Gratin du Nord, ... All
	Beer: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Carbonnade, Gratin du Nord, Ch'ti mussel tarts, Welsh (French Welsh Rarebit), ... All
	Potatoes: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Grated potato cakes, Gratin Dauphinois, Normandy seafood stew, Real home-made chips* , Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach, ... All

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