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How to prepare endives

Name: How to prepare endives
Prep time: 23 min
Cook time: 3 min
Total time: 26 min
Yield: 4 endives
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 5 endives (head of chicory); coarse salt; water

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.

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30 min.

Easy

0.45 €

4 endives

3 Ingredients

Last modified on: February 14^th 2012

For 4 endives, you will need:

1 5 endives (head of chicory)
2 coarse salt
3 water
Total weight: 350 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 20 min.

Resting: 5 min.

Cooking: 3 min.

All in all: 30 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - ⌛ 10 min.

Trim a little from the base of 5 endives (head of chicory), remove and discard any untidy leaves, then wash endives.

Stage 2 - ⌛ 3 min.

Boil a large pan of salted water.

With a small sharp knife, remove a small cone from the bottom and discard it. The cone size depends on endive size, usually about half an inch is fine.

This reduces the endive's bitter taste.

Note:If endive are medium or big size, think to cut them in two, from top to bottom, to reduce cooking and blenching time.

Stage 3 - ⌛ 3 min.

Put endives in boiling salted water for 2-3 minutes...

Stage 4 - ⌛ 5 min.

... then remove them using a skimmer, put into very cold water.

You've just blanched endives, and we do that to reduce the bitterness still further.

Stage 5 - ⌛ 5 min.

Leave endives in cold water for five minutes, then drain and dry them. The best way is to use a salad spinner, and then leave on a tea-towel.

Remarks

In this recipe I say "reduce bitterness" because we don't want to suppress it entirely: it's part of the endive taste, its character, that we should keep.

Keeping: Several days in the frifge, in a closed box.

Source: Home made.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	3 RDI=1 %	10 RDI=1 %	0	70 RDI=4 %	290 RDI: 4 %
Per 100 g	1 RDI=0 %	4 RDI=0 %	0	20 RDI=1 %	80 RDI: 1 %
Per endives	0	3 RDI=0 %	0	20 RDI=1 %	70 RDI: 1 %