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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.

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Last modified on: May 12^th 2019

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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.

Thinly slice 1 spring onion (scallion).

Stage 2 - 10 min.

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

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Cut 2 slices bread into small cubes.

Stage 4 - 4 min.

Dice the cheese as well.

Stage 5 - 7 min.

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.

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

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.

Source

Home made.

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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, Milk, Sulfites, Mustard

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 1.57 €
Per person : 0.39 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Endives (head of chicory): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Comtoise endive salad, Endive and walnut salad, Gratin of Endives with Mont d'Or, Comtoise endive salad, Purple sprouting broccoli and endive salad, ... All
	Cheese: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Butterfly pasta with smoked trout, Pork Chops with Rosemary, Asparagus and spinach gratin, Winemaker's toast, Savoury mini-madeleines with 2 cheeses, ... All
	French dressing (vinaigrette): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Prawn salad with a crunch, Nanou's red cabbage salad, Green and red salad with sardines and eggs mimosa, French bean salad with vinaigrette , Cervelas salad, ... All
	Bread: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Bistro celery salad, Cornouaillaise salad, Welsh (French Welsh Rarebit), Panzanella, Nanou's red cabbage salad, ... All

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