Best Blue Cheese Steak And Endive Salad For Two Recipes

Endive Salad With Blue Cheese Dressing image

Provided by Martha Rose Shulman

Time 15m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 small garlic clove, finely minced or puréed
1/2 cup plain yogurt, thinned out with a little milk if thick
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
2 ounces good quality blue cheese or Roquefort, at room temperature, crumbled (about 1/2 cup)
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard
4 large or 6 medium endives
Minced chives
1 apple, cut in very small (1/4 inch or smaller) dice and tossed with lemon juice for garnish

Steps:

Whisk together garlic and yogurt in a medium bowl. Add olive oil, salt and pepper and whisk together. Add blue cheese or Roquefort and Dijon mustard and whisk together until mixture is fairly smooth, with a few lumps of cheese.
Trim away the very end of the endives and cut lengthwise into quarters. Arrange on a platter or on individual plates and spoon on dressing. Top with chives and finely diced apple, and serve.

Endive and Blue Cheese Salad with Soy-Sherry Vinaigrette image

Provided by Geoffrey Zakarian

Categories appetizer

Time 15m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 16

4 cups finely julienned endive (store in cold water to prevent oxidation)
1/2 cup julienned peeled green apples
1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
1/2 cup finely julienned red onions
1/4 cup walnuts, toasted
2 tablespoons fresh tarragon leaves
1/4 cup Soy-Sherry Vinaigrette, recipe follows
Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper
Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper
1/2 cup sherry vinegar
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon chopped shallots
1 egg yolk
1 cup grapeseed oil
Freshly cracked black pepper

Steps:

Combine the endive, apples, blue cheese, onions, walnuts and tarragon in a medium mixing bowl. Add the Soy-Sherry Vinaigrette (use as much or as little as desired) and season with salt and pepper.
Puree the sherry vinegar, soy sauce, Dijon mustard, shallots and egg yolk in a blender. With the motor running, emulsify the oil into the mixture. Season with black pepper (the salt from the soy will be enough to season the vinaigrette).

Endive and Blue Cheese Salad image

Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Time 14m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 0

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.