Endive Salad With Beets And Blue Cheese Recipes

Steps:

• Puree 1/3 cup blue cheese, 2 tablespoons Greek yogurt and 3 tablespoons milk in a blender. Stir in some chopped chives, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Slice 4 heads endive lengthwise; toss with the dressing. Top with toasted walnuts, dried cranberries and more blue cheese and chives.

Steps:

• Make the dressing: In a small bowl, whisk together the sherry vinegar, balsamic vinegar, salt to taste, Dijon mustard and garlic until combined well. Whisk in the olive oil and the walnut oil. Add freshly ground pepper to taste.
• Combine the salad ingredients in a large bowl. Toss with the dressing and serve.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut the tops off the beets and set them aside. Bake the beets in their skins until tender (about one hour). Remove from the oven, cool and peel.
• Meanwhile, slice the endive leaves longways and arrange them in a fan-like circle on a round platter. Chop the beet leaves and saute them in olive oil until wilted. Season with salt and pepper and mound them in the center when cooled. Chop the beets and place them in a circle around the greens.
• Crumble the blue cheese and sprinkle it over the endive leaves. Sprinkle on the walnuts and the parsley.
• Combine the ingredients for the salad dressing in a small bowl. Season to taste, remove the garlic, pour the dressing over the vegetables and serve.

Steps:

• Mix the sour cream with the mustard and add salt and pepper.
• Combine with the rest of the ingredients.
• Variations: use (as many as you like) chopped hard-boiled eggs instead of the beets, then leave out the mustard and use some curry powder in the sour cream.
• Add some chopped green onion.
• Use 4-6 oz cubed or chopped cheese of your choice instead of the beets.

Steps:

• Preheat over to 350°F. Wrap beets in foil. Bake until tender, about 1 hour. Cool slightly. Peel beets. Halve lengthwise, then slice. Transfer to medium bowl and set aside.
• Combine lemon juice, mustard and celery seeds in bowl. Gradually whisk in oil. Season with salt and pepper. Add half of dressing to beets and mix to coat. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover beets and chill. Cover remaining dressing and let stand at room temperature.)
• Place endive in another medium bowl. Add remaining dressing and toss to coat. Mound endive in center of large platter. Surround with beets. Sprinkle Roquefort and chives over and serve.