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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
1,435 Kcal or 6,008 Kj	161 gr	1,188 gr	131 gr
53 %	46 %	83 %	15 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
163 Kcal or 682 Kj	18 gr	135 gr	15 gr
6 %	5 %	9 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
359 Kcal or 1,503 Kj	40 gr	297 gr	33 gr
13 %	11 %	21 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2700 k-calories or 11300 k-joules by day for a man (change to a woman).

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: Gratin of Endives with Mont d'Or, How to prepare endives , Ham and endives au gratin, Endive and beer soup, Individual creamy endive gratins, ... All
	Cheese: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Croque-monsieur complet, Hamburgers, French toast "cordon bleu", Hot sesame-cream chicken tartines, Kérinou slices, ... All
	French dressing (vinaigrette): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Grandma's salad, White asparagus salad, Tahitian salad, Salad greens and small omelette, Crunchy radish and carrot salad, ... All
	Bread: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Scrambled eggs with butter-fried bread and fresh spinach, Bruschetta and mozzarella, Gratin slices with spinach, Bistro celery salad, Panzanella, ... All

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