List of 10 recipes using Endives (head of chicory) (gluten free)

Comtoise endive salad

This endive salad has a Comtoise twist as a change from the usual pairing of endives with walnuts. The endives are finely sliced, mixed with fried smoked bacon, diced Comté cheese and a little chopped parsley, then dessed with a good vinaigrette.

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.

Endive and walnut salad

This salad has a double dose of walnut flavour: walnut oil in the vinaigrette and crunchy walnut kernels.

Purple sprouting broccoli and endive salad

This crunchy salad combines endives with purple sprouting broccoli and radishes in a good herb vinaigrette.

Endive gratin with cancoillotte

Here is a variation on the classic French recipe for endives with ham. This recipe uses cancoillotte cheese instead of the usual béchamel sauce.

Endives "bonne femme"

A one-pot endive dish with potatoes, onion and bacon. [Translator's note: the French "bonne femme" style is good, straightforward home cooking (whether the cook is a man or a woman!).

Gratin du Nord

This gratin combines the flavours that are so characteristic of France's northern region: endives (chicory), beer and Maroilles cheese.

Gratin of Endives with Mont d'Or

This gratin has layers of potatoes and sautéed endives, topped with Mont d'Or cheese and browned in the oven.

Individual creamy endive gratins

In this recipe, the endives are first blanched, then baked with cream and mushrooms in individual cassolettes (small gratin dishes or large ramekins).

How to prepare endives

A very classic recipe, but which can easily fail due to two main errors: too much water in bottom of dish because endives give off a lot, and endives that are too bitter so that children hate it. Here is a method which avoids these two problems.