Chicory
Raw Cream of Spinach Soup
This uncooked soup isn't for the timid — raw garlic, ginger, and shallot impart strong flavors. Unless you can get freshly made vegetable juice from your local juice bar, you will need an electric juicer to make the tomato or carrot juice.
Active time: 1 hr Start to finish: 2 hr
Endive and Pear Salad
This recipe can be prepared in 45 minutes or less.
Radicchio, Arugula, and Frisée Salad
Active time: 15 min Start to finish: 15 min
Belgian Endive and Apple Salad with Cranberry Vinaigrette
A crunchy and colorful salad with a lively dressing. Pomegranate juice and pomegranate seeds can be substituted for the cranberry juice concentrate and cranberries.
Beet Salad with Ricotta Salata and Black Olive Croutons
At her restaurant, Lynch includes black truffle in the vinaigrette for this salad, but it's so flavorful as it is that we didn't feel the truffle was necessary.
Waldorf Salad with Cranberries and Pecans in Radicchio Cups
This updated classic adds dashes of red — and depth of flavor — to the usual apple, celery, and walnut mix. Make the salad ahead and refrigerate, then add the watercress and pecans right before serving.
Hazelnut-Crusted Goat Cheese Salad
Alice Waters, who opened Chez Panisse in 1971, took salads to new heights with unusual, farm-fresh greens; she also popularized the use of goat cheese, which was being made by Laura Chenel not far from the Berkeley restaurant. Those ingredients come together in this delicious salad.
Swordfish with Braised Endive
To offset its bitterness, the endive is caramelized with sugar in this recipe.
Braised Shrimp and Creamy Endive
Active time: 45 min Start to finish: 45 min
Chicory and White Bean Soup
Chicory, a bitter leaf most commonly used in salads, mellows as it cooks.
Radicchio, Frisée, and Artichoke Salad
Insalata di Radicchio, Frisée, e Carciofi
Including raw artichokes in a salad is an Italian trademark — their flavor is fresher and milder than that of cooked artichokes.
Active time: 40 min Start to finish: 1 hr
Grilled Mushroom Salad with Frisée and Hazelnuts
Judy Rodgers is currently working on a cookbook from her Zuni Café in San Francisco. Grilling the mushrooms for this salad (which will appear in the new book) intensifies their flavor.
Active time: 35 min Start to finish: 35 min
Assorted Dipping Vegetables
Feel free to add, subtract, or substitute any raw or cooked vegetables you'd like, but make sure there's a good variety of textures and colors.
Endive and Asian Pear Salad
This recipe is an accompaniment for Cabrales Cheese Soufflés.
