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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Belgian >> Belgian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Set oven at 325 deg F/ 160 deg Celsius. | 2. Thinly slice off the discoloured end of the endives. | 3. Cut each endive in two, lengthwise. If any leaves fall away, gather them and use them when wrapping in the bacon strips. | 4. Season each endive half well with ground nutmeg and white pepper. It is fine just to season the cut halves, because they fall apart easily when handled. | 5. Wrap each halved endive in one or two slices of bacon with a fatty rind -- you need that. Depending on the width of your bacon you might need only 1 slice. I used "back bacon", which has a lean part with a fatty edge. | 6. Put the bacon-wrapped endive halves in an oven dish, and spoon in the balsamic vinegar. | 7. Drizzle each wrapped half with drops of olive oil, and put a piece of foil loosely over the dish. | 8. Put in the pre-heated oven. After 15 mins remove the foil and bake another 30 minutes. | 9. While they're baking roughly crumble the blue cheese in chunks. | 10. Take the dish from the oven, divide the crumbled blue cheese among the 6 endive halves, and bake another 5 minutes or until the cheese starts collapsing and melting. | 11. Serve as a side dish with a simple chicken dish, a carb like basmati rice, and some sweetish veggie like butternut or sweet potatoes. The sweetish side dish complements the salty endives. | 12. The endives will still be slightly crunchy. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
belgian endive	3	heads		-	-	-	-
nutmeg	1/2	teaspoon	ground	5.775	0.5422	0.0642	0.3994
white pepper	1/2	teaspoon		3.552	0.8233	0.1248	0.0254
bacon	6 -12	slices		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
balsamic vinegar	3	tablespoons		42.24	8.1744	0.2352	0.0
olive oil	3	tablespoons		358.02	0.0	0.0	40.5
blue cheese	3 1/2	1/2		480.2404	4.7329	1.3594	50.7031

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.