Recipe: Belgian Endives

Name: Belgian Endives
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 40 min
Ingredients: pour 1 kg d'endives moyennes (pas lavées juste essuyées et l'opercule retirées); 40 g de beurre 1/2 sel fermier; 1/2 jus de citron; 1 pincée de sel fin; 1 pincée de sucre semoule

By chef patrick Asfaux ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/5 (7 reviews) Vegetables

Prep 10 min

Cook 30 min

Total 40 min

Pour cuire les endives vous avez plusieurs solutions : soit vous les cuisez a la vapeur, soit dans un jus de volaille ou de boeuf soit de la manière suivante comme nous le faisons dans nos cuisines

Recette Belgian Endives - Chef Patrick Asfaux — Photo: -©-arnowssr

Ingredients

There are several ways to cook Belgian endives: you can either steam them, cook them in a beef or chicken stock or prepare them the way we do in our restaurants.
Recipe for 1kg of medium size, washed and trimmed endives
40g butter
1/2 lemon juice
1 pinch of salt
1 pinch of caster sugar

Step-by-step directions

1 Place your endives into a pot like if you were making a star, then season them with salt and sugar. Add the lemon juice and the butter. Finally add 20cl of water.

2 Place a round piece of parchment, in which you will have made a small hole in the centre, on the top of the endives.

3 After 25 minutes of cooking all the cooking juice should be evaporated and your endives should be cooked. Take them out and press them gently to get rid of the excess water.

When cooked that way, Belgian endives can be the base for pan fried endives meuniere or a gratin of endives or endives wrapped in ham or braised in a veal jus to accompany a roast of pork, for example.

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