APPLEWOOD - Inn - Restaurant - Spa

Belgian Endive and Apple Salad With Blue Cheese Dressing: Appetizer-Snack

Servings: 4

Prep time:15 minutes

Ingredients:

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  4 Gravenstine apples peeled

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  1 cup Walnut halves toasted in oven for 8 minutes at 350 degrees

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  7 Belgian endives

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  1 cup Blue cheese crumbled

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  1/4 cup Toasted walnut oil

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  1/2 cup chives chopped

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  1/2 cup Blue cheese dressing

Step 1:

Cut apples into 1-inch cubes and sprinkle with a little lemon juice. Cut the endives crosswise into 1-inch slices. Keep the cores; they are the best part. Toss the endives and apples with half the crumbled blue cheese, walnuts, chives and another drizzle of walnut oil.

Step 2:

Blue Cheese Dressing: 1 cup of mayonnaise 1 cup sour cream 8 ounces flue cheese, crumbled 1 shallot finely diced and soaked in 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar 2 teaspoons garlic, finely chopped 2 good shots of Tabasco sauce Salt and pepper to taste Juice of 1/2 lemon 1/4 cup of buttermilk

Step 3:

This dressing is as easy to make as putting all the ingredients into a bowl and whisking vigorously until they are well combined. If too thick add buttermilk. Seasoning can be adjusted to taste with salt, pepper, lemon juice or Tabasco.