Endive Salad With Blue Cheese Dressing
- Total Time
- 15 minutes
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Ingredients
Yield:4 servings
- 1small garlic clove, finely minced or puréed
- ½cup plain yogurt, thinned out with a little milk if thick
- 2tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 2ounces good quality blue cheese or Roquefort, at room temperature, crumbled (about ½ cup)
- ½teaspoon Dijon mustard
- 4large or 6 medium endives
- Minced chives
- 1apple, cut in very small (¼ inch or smaller) dice and tossed with lemon juice for garnish
Preparation
- Step 1
Whisk together garlic and yogurt in a medium bowl. Add olive oil, salt and pepper and whisk together. Add blue cheese or Roquefort and Dijon mustard and whisk together until mixture is fairly smooth, with a few lumps of cheese.
- Step 2
Trim away the very end of the endives and cut lengthwise into quarters. Arrange on a platter or on individual plates and spoon on dressing. Top with chives and finely diced apple, and serve.
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Curtis Hartman
The dressing lacks smoothness and strong roquefort flavor. Consider replacing the yogurt with buttermilk/sour cream and adding some additional flavor, like worchestershire sauce, tabasco, and/or lemon.
Sandy
I've made this numerous times. We positively love it. And if there's no endive available? Good old iceberg. Or romaine, bibb, whatever.
Leslie
Add the juice of 1/2 a lemon to liven it up a bit.
Cat
This was a big hit with guests! Tasty and pretty!
I added a tablespoon of lemon juice also, greek yogurt and a good quality blue cheese. Let the dressing sit for 4-5 hours. It was fantastic!
Maddie
Absolutely easy and yummy. Did substitute sour cream for yogurt. Served over grilled endive with apples and pine nuts
Carol
Served with watercress, steamed green beans and toasted walnuts as a side to Salmon With Lemon-Herb Marinade. Excellent.
Joan
Have made this dressing on numerous occasions with good greek yoghurt and roquefort or gorgonzola and spicy french mustard. I don't make it too smooth because I love the chunky bits of cheese. The apples are nice but not a must. Chives add a nice zip to the taste and appearance.
Sarah Kirby
I substitute pears for apples and add chopped toasted pecans- candied if you want.
Elisa
Very easy and fast to prepare. Used blue cheese and true to the directions, the dressing was smooth with some cheese lumps. I added 1 lemon juice to the apples and replaced the chives with chopped walnuts for extra crunch.
Name
Sub half sour cream/half yogurt for the yogurt.
V
Wowza! This was a perfect starting point. I ground a medium clove of garlic with fleur de sel in mortar and pestle into a paste, and added a generous tsp Dijon as I’m a mustard fiend. To up the “zip” factor to the mild yogurt, I added a bit of powdered buttermilk (useful to have around when you just need a bit). This is reminiscent of the excellent endive salad with blue cheese dressing we had at a French bistro recently! If I really wanted to gild the lily, I’d add crumbled crispy bacon!
SeanK
After making this recipe, I would recommend completely creaming the 2 ounces of Roquefort with into the dressing with food processor and then adding another ounce of crumbled Roquefort over the top with the apple.
Clara
This is great; lots of blue cheese lumps for extra flavour. Used an organic blue from Auvergne; and grilled almonds. Thumbs up from the Funky Frenchman.
quaasam
Very nice and tasty.
allison
I added spinach and tossed in a bowl to make it less precious. YUMMY!
Bill
For me this was missing richness, so I subbed some Kewpie mayo for the yogurt. Helped a lot, plus the MSG in the mayo amplified the blue cheese flavour.
murphy
Add the lemon to the dressing. And, of course, add some crumpled bacon. Follow with spaghetti alle vongole as the bacons is a lead to the clams.
Mushroom Bites Back
In a pinch, used coconut milk instead of yoghurt. Divine.
Josh
Great dish for a spring meal. I also incorporated a bit of lemon juice into the dressing and drizzled a bit of lemon juice along with salt and pepper on the endive before adding the dressing. Finally, as an accent I added some crumbled bacon in addition to some honeycrisp apples.
Dennis D.
Five minutes of preparation and you're dining in a bistro in France
Elisa
Very easy and fast to prepare. Used blue cheese and true to the directions, the dressing was smooth with some cheese lumps. I added 1 lemon juice to the apples and replaced the chives with chopped walnuts for extra crunch.
Sarah Kirby
I substitute pears for apples and add chopped toasted pecans- candied if you want.
Joan
Have made this dressing on numerous occasions with good greek yoghurt and roquefort or gorgonzola and spicy french mustard. I don't make it too smooth because I love the chunky bits of cheese. The apples are nice but not a must. Chives add a nice zip to the taste and appearance.
Maddie
Absolutely easy and yummy. Did substitute sour cream for yogurt. Served over grilled endive with apples and pine nuts
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