Caramelized Endive with Browned Butter Sage Sauce from All Day I Dream About Food This post is sponsored by Discover Endive. All opinions expressed are 100% mine.
Well, a beloved project is coming to a close and I wanted to mark the occasion somehow. I have truly enjoyed being a part of the OnDiva campaign and have learned so much along the way. When I received my first shipment of California Endive back in December, I honestly don’t know that I’d ever even tried it. And now I have come to appreciate this versatile and healthful vegetable, and I will certainly continue making it a regular part of my diet. I’ve also enjoyed working with my fellow OnDivas, and I wanted to take a moment to highlight all of the recipes we’ve come up with over the past 6 months, as well as a few other delectable ways to serve endive. With all of this right at hand, you have NO excuse not to try it yourself! I have even included my own low-carb, gluten free version of Endive En Jambon (Endive Au Gratin) as a bonus recipe. I gave it a go a few weeks ago, replacing the flour with arrowroot starch to thicken the sauce, and it worked beautifully (scroll to bottom for this recipe).
Giveaway:
In addition, I am thrilled to be hosting a California Endive giveaway. The winner will receive 1 shipment of California Endive (this is quite a lot and will keep for a while when properly refrigerated), a Discover Endive Dip Tray, and a copy of the cookbook Ripe: A Fresh Colorful Approach To Fruits And Vegetables (Cheryl Sternman Rule and Paulette Phlipot).
To Enter:
1. This giveaway is open to residents of the lower 48 states only.
2. Contest will run until Monday, June 4th at midnight EST.
2. Please leave a comment below.
3. For additional entries…(leave a separate comment for each)
- please visit Discover Endive Recipes and tell me what recipe you would most like to make from their recipe collection
- Follow Discover Endive on Twitter
- Like Discover Endive on Facebook
Endive Round-Up
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| Chicken, Endive and Root Vegetable Soup with Endive Parsley Pesto from Healthy Green Kitchen |
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| Endive Spears Suffed with Teriyaki Turkey from Cookin’ Canuck |
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| Creamy butterfly Pasta with Endive from Bell’alimento |
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| Bacon, Gruyere and Endive Quiche from All Day I Dream About Food |
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| Avocado, Endive and Apple Salad from Discover Endive |
Other Great Endive Recipes:
Ham and Cheese Endive Nachos from La Fuji Mama
Endive, Kale and Smoked Salmon Salad from Healthy Green Kitchen
French Onion and Endive Soup with Pancetta from Cookin’ Canuck
Ricotta and Endive Appetizer from Bell’Alimento
Endive with Smoked Salmon and Boursin from All Day I Dream About Food
Turkey Meatball and Endive Coconut Curry from La Fuji Mama
Rice Noodle Salad with Endive, Shrimp and Soy Ginger Dressing from Cookin’ Canuck
Endive and Satsuma Manderin Salad from Healthy Green Kitchen
Turkey Taco Endive Boats from All Day I Dream About Food
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| Photo Credit: Discover Endive |
Endive En Jambon (Endive Au Gratin) – adapted from Discover Endive to be low carb and gluten free
6 heads California Endive
6 slices black forest ham
2 tbsp butter
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 cup half and half
1 tbsp arrowroot starch
1 cup shredded Gruyere cheese, divided
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
Salt and pepper to taste
Grease a glass or ceramic baking dish and bring a large saucepan of water to a boil. Place endive in boiling water and cook until just tender, about 5 minutes. Drain in colander and squeeze each head of endive gently to remove extra moisture. Wrap each head of endive in a slice of ham and place in prepared baking dish.
In medium saucepan over medium heat, cook butter until browned, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, 30 seconds. Whisk arrowroot starch into milk and add to saucepan, cooking until thickened, another 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in 3/4 cup Gruyere, the nutmeg, salt and pepper and stir until cheese is melted.
Preheat broiler to high. Pour sauce evenly over endives and sprinkle with remaining Gruyere. Place under broiler about 3 to 4 inches away from heat source and cook until sauce bubbles and cheese is browned, about 10 minutes. Serve hot.
Serves 6 (as a side dish). Each serving has 20.7 g of carbs and 16 g of fiber. Total NET CARBS = 4.7 g.
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Can you see me over here jumping up and down and waving my arms around? I LOVE Belgian endive and it's so hard to find over here. My mom (being Belgian by birth) makes the most delicious endive salad and I miss it so much. I saw your Caramelized Endive with Browned Butter Sage Sauce and started drooling immediately; and it's not even 8am! Oh, I want to win this (in case you can't tell).
Looking at the Discover Endive site, I'd have to go with the Baked White Fish With Endive, Leeks and Tarragon. It looks amazing.
I have Twitterdicated (am following) Discover Endive.
And I now like them on facebook. Have a great day Carolyn and thanks for hosting the giveaway!
Carolyn, wow, I love the new look of your blog!! I’ve been following all the creative ways you have used endive and am going to have to try some of these.
I WANT TO WIN!! I’ve been DYING to try endive (can you believe I haven’t yet?) and this would be perfect!
Plus, your new blog is HOTTTT!
This looks great and I love your new look! Congrats
I would love to try Endive and get healthy inspiration from the Ripe Cookbook too! Love your new site as well!
The “Pear and Feta Bites” recipe looks amazing on their website!
Following Discover Endive on Twitter
Like them on Facebook too! Thanks so much!
Thanks for hosting this giveaway, I would love to try the endive.
Cool new look, Carolyn.
I love endive, esp. in salads and stir-fried. Your caramelized endive looks divine.
The new look is fantastic! Love it.
I’m definitely hooked on endive since following your blog!
I just “liked” Discover Endive on FB. Hope I get some more good ideas!
Nice new blog and I’d love to try endive and learn new recipes too
The Endive boats would be yummy!
Following Discover Endive on FB
Following them on Twitter too
I love endive and hardly ever use it. This is a reminder to me to use it more! I’m so glad I checked your site instead of counting on the RSS feed, which doesn’t seem to be working today. What a good giveaway!
Yeah, the RSS feed didn’t pull over properly from Blogger. We’re working on it!
The Pear and feta Bites on Discover Endive recipes looks wonderful and I want to try the braised endive with bacon, too. So many of the recipes look delicious.
I like Discover Endive on Facebook.
Yay! Best giveaway ever!! marthalynn16 at gmail
I definitely want to try the WHITE BEANS WITH BACON AND ENDIVE SOUP. What an amazing resource or recipes! marthalynn16 at gmail
This looks so good! I must say I have a hard time knowing what to do with endive. I’d love to have a box to challenge myself!
Pear and feta bites..yumo…
Never tried them…bur your recipes sound wonderful
Liked them on Facebook…
Followed them on twitter…
From the website I would make the rock shrimp and endive “martinis”. MMMM!
I follow on twitter
I like on facebook
Cute fresh blog Carolyn & thanks for a great Ripe & Endive Giveaway!
The Pear & Feta Endive Bites do look amazing!
I like Discover Endive on Facebook
Following them on Twitter too
Apparently I haven’t been here in a while – Love the new site! It looks amazing!
I have yet to try endive, but all your posts make me want to go guy some. This is another one that looks amazing!
Have to admit endive intimidates me…afraid it would be bitter. Willing to give it a go after reading your post.
I love endive! Would definitely make the pizza with stewed endive, bacon and fontina.
Following them on twitter. Love the new design, btw.
Liked them on FB.
The Endive Au Gratin looks amazing. Can’t wait to try it!
This looks delicious! And I love the new layout of the blog!
Yum! The Avocado, Endive and Apple Salad from Discover Endive looks so yummy!
What a great roundup!
I follow them on Twitter
I’d love to make Endive Boats with Spicy Sprouted Hummus
Yum! I’ve worked with curly endive before but really don’t have much experience with endive. I’d love to work with this ingredient!
From the Discover Endive website, I would love to try the Boursin in endive spears. I’m always looking for new low-carb appetizers to try, since so many traditional ones are bread-related.
I’m a newer reader of your blog and first-time commenter. I absolutely love your recipes! I am transitioning my family to a primal/paleo way of eating and when we are ready, so many of your recipes will fit into our grain-free, low-carb diet. I loved your idea for the taco endive leaves, I went out and bought endive to try it. One of my favorite low carb meals is a taco salad, but to have a variation is so nice! I look forward to keeping up with your blog! Thanks so much!
You know, I’d love to go paleo/primal, but I just can’t see giving up the dairy! But so many of my things can be made with coconut oil or such and made over to the paleo-friendly diet. Enjoy!
In the version I’m doing, The Primal Blueprint by Mark Sisson, he allows moderate dairy. (Thank goodness!) I save my dairy for some yummy full-fat greek yogurt or cheese on entrees – it’s limited, but I do have some. And he says butter can be used generously. Completely giving up dairy would be totally out of the cards for me too!!!
Oh, good! Butter is one of my favourite things ever. Plus, I actually have a degree in human evolution (Masters) and the way I see it, human are opportunists when it comes to food. If ancient humans had killed a lactating female deer or buffalo, they may just have taken the milk after all. They wouldn’t have wasted anything! So that’s how I justify the dairy. I do greek yogurt and butter and full cream. No milk, though. Too carby!
What an interesting point you make! I am all about learning the science and theories around why primal/paelo (and low carb, low sugar in general) is the way we were meant to eat and this is cool to think about!
Hi. First of all, I love the redesign of your blog. It’s easy on the eyes and easy to navigate. I’m ashamed that I’ve never posted a comment here before (or to any site for that matter!). But I had to let you know that the Endive en Jambon was delicious. Its savoriness and creaminess were delectable (the perfect balance of “jam” & “bon” you might say)…….and I’m not one to normally like cooked endive!
Keep up the great work and know that you’ve got a fan in me.
I love Endive!
My favorite recipe on Endive site is: Endive Spears with Smoked Salmon, Horseradish Cream, and Dill
I already follow “Discover Endive” on Twitter
I already follow Discover Endive on Facebook.
I don’t think I’ve ever had endive! Love these recipes!
Wow what an awesome giveaway!!
I would make the Endive Boats with Spicy Sprouted Hummus
I love the presentation of these dishes!
I Follow Discover Endive on Twitter
I Like Discover Endive on Facebook
their ENDIVE SMOOTHIE looks amazing
i would love to win, I’ve never had endive before
katherinedibello (at) gmail (dot) com
What a great contest! I’d love to try this product.
I’d love to try the Endive Salad with Stilton and Apples from the website!
Following on Twitter
Everything looks so good on your website. I have to admit, I don’t use endive that often, but I love it grilled. I am going to make Nectarine, Prosciutto, and California Endive Salad with Honey-Thyme Vinaigrette as soon as Nectarine’s are in season on the East coast.
I don’t think I’ve ever tried endive before – this would be a great way to introduce my family to it. And thanks for the all the great recipe inspiration!
I have been wanting to try endive due mostly to your delicious looking recipes but cant find it in the Midwest. A shipment would be awesome!
I would like to try the baked pancetta wrapped endive from the discover endive site
Followed discover endive on twitter
Liked discover endive on Facebook
These are one of my husbands favorite foods but sooooo expensive in the us.
Nice recipes, I never knew endive could look so hot!!
Take care…