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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.

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Last modified on: February 14^th 2012

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For 4 endives, you will need:

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

Change these quantities to make: 2 endives 4 endives 8 endives 12 endives

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
18 min.	5 min.	3 min.	26 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

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
70 Kcal or 293 Kj	4 gr	14 gr	0 gr
4 %	1 %	1 %	0 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
20 Kcal or 84 Kj	1 gr	4 gr	0 gr
1 %	<1 %	<1 %	0 %

Per endives
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
18 Kcal or 75 Kj	1 gr	4 gr	0 gr
1 %	<1 %	<1 %	0 %

% 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 4 endives : 0.42 €
Per endives : 0.11 €

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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 du Nord, Purple sprouting broccoli and endive salad, Endives "bonne femme", Endive and walnut salad, Flamiche, ... All
	Coarse salt: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fish in a salt crust, How to prepare broccoli, Potted meat (rillettes), Roast potatoes "à la provençale", Preserved lemons, ... All
	Water: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tomato foccacia, Nonettes, Mixed seed grissini, Poitevin twist, Poaching syrup, ... All

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