Saturday, December 13, 2008

Belgian Endive

Finally found a grocer in portland that sells belgian endive (Trader Joes) so I made some yesterday, stuffed with blue cheese, wrapped in prosciutto and puff pastry.

Stuffed belgian endive


It came out perfect, but really, this is a dish that's next to impossible to mess up.

The Recipe
Thaw 1 sheet of puff pastry and cut it into quarters.

Roll one of the quarters large enough to completely wrap around your endive.

Place enough prosciutto to completely wrap your endive on the puff pastry. (Honestly, deli ham works just as well, I just happened to go with prosciutto this time)

Take your endive and core it (I use a pairing knife for this, just basically sticking it in the bottom and twisting it around)

Stuff the hole with blue cheese.

Crumble some more blue cheese on the proscuitto, because lets face it: blue cheese is good, especially baked.

Place your endive ontop of the proscuitto, and wrap the whole thing up, sealing the puff pastry.

Bake @350 for ~45 minutes, or until golden brown.

Caution: Baking the endive causes it to release a lot of steam, which is trapped by the pastry. When you first cut into this thing, give it a minute or so to cool before biting into it, or you'll find yourself doing a serious reverse blow.

Enjoy!

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