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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.

23K 6 3.7

Last modified on: May 12^th 2019

Keywords for this recipe:Slad Endives Spring Croutons Cheese Spring onions

For 8 people, you will need:

1 2 spring onions (scallions)
2 1 kg endives (head of chicory)
3 4 slices bread
4 100 g cheese
5 4 tablespoons olive oil
6 chives
7 10 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette)
Total weight: 1,760 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
24 min.	7 min.	31 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #1

Thinly slice 2 spring onions (scallions).

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #2

Prepare 1 kg endives (head of chicory) and shred by slicing thinly.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #3

Cut 4 slices bread into small cubes.

Stage 4 - 4 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #4

Dice the cheese as well.

Stage 5 - 7 min.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #5

Pour 4 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.

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #6

Put the endives, onions, croutons and cheese into a salad bowl.

Add some freshly chopped chives, then 10 tablespoons French dressing (vinaigrette) and mix well.

Stage 7

Endive and cheese salad with croutons : Photo of step #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.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,171 Kcal or 9,090 Kj	53 gr	203 gr	195 gr
109 %	20 %	19 %	30 %

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).

How much will it cost?

For 8 people : 3.15 €
Per person : 0.39 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Endives (head of chicory): You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Individual creamy endive gratins, Endives , Comtoise endive salad, Endives "bonne femme", Comtoise endive salad, ... All
	Cheese: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Croque-monsieur complet, Aligot, French toast "cordon bleu", Vegetable tian, Warm cauliflower salad with two cheeses, ... All
	French dressing (vinaigrette): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pea and avocado salad, Salad paysanne, Warm haricot bean salad, Leeks in vinaigrette , Paimpol salad, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tahitian style fish, Green asparagus omelette, Potimarron and leek soup, Mushrooms on toast, French style, Minestrone, ... All

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