List of recipes using Chives: 49 recipes (without meat)

Asparagus "en petit pois"

As the name suggests, this historic recipe (see below for more details) treats asparagus like peas, Napoleonic French style: first cooked the usual way, then cut small (to look like peas), cooked again in stock, and finished with a cream and egg yolk sauce.
May 2^nd 202131K 42 min.

Avocado and smoked salmon terrine

In this colourful terrine, layers of avocado alternate with smoked salmon and diced tomato in balsamic vinegar.
April 10^th 2011173K5 4 hours 7 min.

Baby courgette salad

Early in the season, it is easy to find young courgettes that are still small and delightfully crunchy raw. They are ideal for this salad recipe, combined with radishes and tuna in a lemon mayonnaise.
July 31^th 201935K 21 min.

Bistro-style endive salad

This delicious late-winter salad is made with red endives, slivers of Mimolette* cheese and toasted walnuts. In France it is known as a "Dutch" salad and typical bistro fare. *Currently banned in the USA.
March 27^th 202220K 27 min.

Broad bean salad with Parmesan

A salad that combines crunchy almonds, tender broad beans, with the flavours of balsamic vinegar, parmesan and herbs.
February 21^th 2011267K3.8 25 min.

Cauliflower and egg salad

This very simple recipe combines crunchy raw cauliflower with hard-boiled eggs and herbs in a rémoulade dressing.
July 1^st 202045K 19 min.

Celery and avocado salad

For this recipe, very simple, we mix celeriac and avocado and we bind them with a remoulade sauce. The association celery and avocado is not common, but you will see that it works very well.
March 26^th 202311K 18 min.

Cervelle de Canut

In French, this curious name means "silk-weaver's brain", but don't be alarmed, this tasty "brain" consists of cottage cheese mixed with herbs, vinegar and finely chopped shallots. The Canuts were the silk weavers in the area around Lyon, France. In the nineteenth century this was one of their...
August 1^st 202122K 1 hour 21 min.

Cherry tomato and green bean salad

Here is a quick recipe for a very simple but delicious summer or late summer salad.
October 30^th 202213K 32 min.

Cream of cauliflower soup with smoked haddock

This soup with a difference plays up an amazing flavour combination: creamy cauliflower with morsels of smoked haddock.
March 18^th 202034K 24 min.

Crispy cheese parcels

Small crisp parcels filled with cheese and linseeds, hot and crunchy on the outside, melting in the middle. They can be served with a light green salad.
December 18^th 2011133K4.1 37 min.

Crunchy radish and carrot salad

Quick and straightforward, this fresh, crunchy salad is ideal for early spring.
June 17^th 202042K 16 min.

Crunchy spring salad

Fresh and crunchy, this colourful spring salad combines baby courgettes, radishes, cauliflower, beetroot and spring onions with chopped herbs in a good vinaigrette.
May 22^th 201650K4.6 27 min.

Eggs with mayonnaise

Simply known as "œufs-mayo" in French bistros, these hard-boiled eggs are garnished with mayonnaise and are best served with sharply flavoured crudités to balance their creaminess. For this recipe, I have chosen a salad of grated carrot with shallot.
October 5^th 201464K5 33 min.

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.
May 12^th 201941K 31 min.

Four-tier glasses

This starter recipe, served in a glass, consists of four tiers of different vegetable preparations. Each can be made the day before, and it's only the assembly that is tricky.
June 2^nd 2015256K5 1 hour 36 min.

Green bean and potato salad with paprika

A warm salad featuring green beans, grilled potatoes and diced Comté cheese, all tossed in a paprika mayonnaise.
November 1^st 20238,359 57 min.

Jerusalem artichoke salad

This very simple salad combines thick slices of tender Jerusalem artichokes with chopped hard-boiled eggs. The salad can be served warm, with the artichokes freshly cooked, or cold later.
January 11^th 202338K 11 min.

Like a Boursin with garlic and herbs

It is quite easy to make your own garlic and herb cream cheese, rather like the well-know Boursin. It's fresh, much better, of course, and delicious, especially with a piece of toast.
June 12^th 2011188K3.9 35 min.

Mimosa eggs

Mimosa eggs are hard boiled eggs where the yolks are removed, chopped and mixed with a herb mayonnaise, then this mix is used to refill the whites. It's a classic recipe of traditional French bistro cooking.
February 21^th 2011286K 25 46 min.

Mixed salad

Mixed salad is one of those simple but delicious summer recipes which go so well with a barbeque. It's a mix of several fresh vegetables, herbs and French dressing (vinaigrette).
February 21^th 2011284K4.6 1 hour

Nanou's red cabbage salad

If you are used to the usual red cabbage salad (just cabbage in a vinaigrette), I hope you will be agreeably surprised with this more sophisticated version using herbs, diced Parmesan and fried croutons.
November 22^th 202027K 30 min.

Prawn salad with a crunch

This salad combines contrasting crunchy ingredients (radish, cucumber, gherkins, onions) with the softer textures of cold rice and tomatoes. The oven-roasted prawns are addded hot. The salad is brought together with herbs and a vinaigrette dressing.
September 15^th 201397K3.5 1 hour 51 min.

Raw beetroot mousse with walnuts

A lightly spiced mousse, made with raw beetroot, with a layer in the centre of finely diced beetroot and roughly chopped walnuts. Discover or rediscover the taste of raw beetroot, very special and so "earthy".
October 13^th 2010361K4 47 min.

Red cabbage salad with chives

This simple winter salad recipe combines red cabbage with spring onions (or chives) in a good vinaigrette.
February 18^th 201563K5 20 min.

Red endive appetizers

Red endive (radicchio) leaves can be filled to make very elegant snacks. The filling shown here combines cheese with sardines.
May 13^th 202045K 20 min.

Rice and zucchini salad with paprika

For this very quick salad recipe, we tie together cooked rice and diced zucchini with a paprika mayonnaise.
October 22^th 20237,688 20 min.

Scandinavian cocktail

A very refreshing starter, containing prawns and smoked fish.
February 21^th 2011292K5 54 min.

Souda salad

The port of Souda in Crete is the inspiration for this colourful salad, combining cucumber and tomatoes with feta cheese. This salad is best served cold from the fridge, perfect for a hot summer's day.
July 7^th 201937K 58 min.

Tomato and cream cheese terrine

Tomatoes marinated in olive oil and lime, then arranged in alternating layers with cream cheese: one layer with herbs and the other with walnuts.
October 30^th 2011154K5 6 hours 12 min.

Vegetable tartare

This amazing recipe from a great chef is surprisingly straightforward to make. You will need lots of different raw vegetables. These are diced really small, then bound with mayonnaise.
October 19^th 201471K4.4 49 min.

Verrine of avocado mousse and crab

A layer of light avocado mousse on a bed of crab meat in a herb rémoulade dressing.
October 16^th 2011176K5 35 min.

Warm salad of potatoes and purple artichokes

This salad combines red onion, purple artichokes cut small and slices of warm potato, dressed with a good vinaigrette.
October 14^th 201296K3.8 54 min.

White asparagus salad

This spring salad combines warm white asparagus, hard-boiled eggs and small croutons, dressed with a tasty herb vinaigrette.
May 21^th 2014117K4.3 48 min.

Crusty cockle tart

A small puff pastry tart case filled with cockles in a cream and egg-yolk sauce ("a la poulette" in French).
March 17^th 2013100K4.3 2 hours 52 min.

Rosemary steamed fish

In this recipe the fish is cooked in steam perfumed with rosemary, which makes it tender and aromatic, served on a bed of onions fondue and finished with a dry white wine sauce.
March 29^th 2020329K3.8 1 hour

Salmon rillettes

A terrine of two kinds of salmon (cooked and smoked) with butter and lemon.
March 26^th 2013278K4.3 2 hours 38 min.

Seafood rice salad

This warm rice salad ("riz du pêcheur" – fisherman's rice in French) combines cooked rice with sautéed prawns, mussels and flaked salmon in a rémoulade dressing.
October 17^th 202124K 26 min.

Tahitian style fish

Little pieces of fish marinated overnight a night in lime juice.
February 21^th 2011263K5 12 hours 57 min.

Eggs in brioche nests

This is an original way to serve an egg: with cheese in a savoury brioche nest. This looks elegant for when you have guests and it is delicious as well.
December 6^th 201553K4.1 3 hours 37 min.

Summery cheese on toast

Lightly toasted bread topped with a mixture of cream cheese, chopped spring onions, sliced radishes and fresh herbs.
July 20^th 201641K4 21 min.

Spring Bread

Spring bread is flavoured with little pieces of preserved tomatoes, Parmesan and chive flowers (hence the name, as the flowers only appear for a brief period in spring). Shaped into long loaves or thin sticks, slices of this bread make a delicious aperitif snack.
October 24^th 201760K4.3 4 hours 2 min.

Oriane's tuna rillettes

Quick to make, delicious as an aperitif.
February 21^th 2011189K5 17 min.

Tomato ladybirds

Tomatoes filled with a tuna mayonnaise and rice mixture, in a fun ladybird shape that kids will love, served with a puree of fresh garden peas. A good way to encourage them to eat vegetables.
February 21^th 2011269K 14 1 hour 47 min.

Gribouille dressing

Gribouille dressing is based on a rémoulade dressing, with shallot, herbs, hard-boiled egg and tuna added. It goes well with fish and vegetables of all kinds and makes a great sandwich filling.
February 17^th 202127K 18 min.

Herb salad

Herb salad is a small salad made with leaves of all kinds of aromatic herbs, it's highly flavoured, and should be considered almost as a condiment. It really is a salad, the leaves are not chopped.
October 13^th 2010222K4.6 22 min.

Light herb sauce

This is a very quick and easy recipe for a delicious sauce! It goes particularly well with baked potatoes, fish (such as salmon) and cold white meats.
May 20^th 201586K4 8 min.

Rémoulette dressing

This is similar to rémoulade dressing, but with lemon juice instead of vinegar and with chopped chives added. The name comes from the French for chives: "ciboulette". In technical terms, it is a cold emulsion, like mayonnaise. Not just a tasty dressing for vegetables and salads, it also goes well...
March 27^th 201968K 8 min.

Tartar sauce

Tartar sauce is a remoulade sauce with the addition of chopped pickles and herbs. It is an ideal accompaniment to cold dishes, such as cold meats, or hot dishes, such as fries or cooked vegetables.
March 15^th 202313K 18 min.